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In my experience, fast I/O (a single NVMe SSD, like a Samsung 960 or Intel 750) is probably the most important piece. I've had great experiences with closed-loop water cooling systems from Corsair- they're nice and quiet, remarkably easy to install, and generally rock. Corsair's power supplies are excellent as well, and Newegg has them on sale pretty frequently.
For a business I ran, and myself personally, I've bought probably 30 engineering sample Xeon E5's over the years. Basically, Intel ships a bunch of near-production CPUs to enterprise partners for validation before a launch, and they find their way onto eBay shortly thereafter. Obviously there's no warranty (when was the last time you had a CPU replaced under warranty anyway?), but you can save a tremendous amount of money- I had a quad Xeon E5-4650 server a few years ago, when those CPUs were $6,000 each at retail. I bought 4 matched engineering sample chips at $450/each, and they were completely, irrevocably rock-solid in the time that I had them. Search on eBay for "Xeon E5 ES," maybe do a little Google search to make sure you're not getting a super-early revision of the chip in question, and you can score some great bargains.
In my editing rig now, I am running an engineering sample E5-2687W v3, which is a 10-core workstation chip that retailed for $2200 when I bought it. I paid $350, and it's a total beast, and completely stable.
As for the parts you look at/feel- I'll just say that the Logitech MX Master mouse changed my life. Also, BenQ has some well-specified pro-grade monitors for professionals that are quite inexpensive. If you're not doing so already, color management with something like a DataColor Spyder5 or X-Rite Color is definitely money well-spent.
As for a beefy CPU being overkill for photography, I heartily disagree. I had a shoot on Monday that left me with 1,200 22mp RAW files to deal with. I was going to import them in Lightroom on my Ultrabook, but gave up after 2 hours at 20% completion (building 100% previews on import, hence the CPU usage- which was at 100% the whole time, with my laptop's fan going full-blast). On my desktop, it was done in something like an hour.
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