Yeah that makes sense, NVME and raid are usually a paper-exercise... I haven't spent any time with gaming-riggs for years but manage some server-structures, but comparing those architectures to a wow-machine, ehm... my knowledge is useless
Checked out some 1070-cards from our vendor we use at work, going to grab one.
Realized (from your signature actually) I am most likely running the out-of-the-box cooler on the CPU.
Maybe time to get back to the overclock days and put a high performance cooler on it and get a higher frequency, from what I remember, wow engine is heavily relying on max-speed and ignores extra-cores etc (roughly).
Would you say there is any point in getting a maxed i7? Or any other model of i5? Even if I get it through work, it feels like it would make no sense to waste the money & time if it wont matter.