wintercat

If you’re near a microcenter, while this may be more than you want, they’re still doing the 12600kf with a z790 wifi board and 16gb for $250.  They also do $20 off any board and cpu, so their $120 5600 with a cheap open box board could be $150 on the right day.  You just have to ask nicely at the register to do the combo with an open box board.  
 
I also found these on ebay:
 
https://www.ebay.com/itm/315311966776?mkcid=16&mkevt=1&mkrid=711-127632-2357-0&ssspo=dr8lziucroy&sssrc=4429486&ssuid=IO4zV1NhQTm&var=&widget_ver=artemis&media=COPY
 
https://www.ebay.com/itm/315311966776?mkcid=16&mkevt=1&mkrid=711-127632-2357-0&ssspo=dr8lziucroy&sssrc=4429486&ssuid=IO4zV1NhQTm&var=&widget_ver=artemis&media=COPY
 
Worst comes to worst you could resell it for about what you paid.

I'd offer $50 at most.  They can take it or leave it.  The market is cold as fuck for that chip so i bet you'll get it.  The chip ain't worth $50, but your system running modern games when it's struggling right now is worth it.  You may find the 7700k/3080 combo more than suitable for your gaming needs, in which case you're good to go for the foreseeable future.  The cores on the 7700k are still faster than current gen consoles, so it's very possible.
 
Doubling your thread count will make games that seemed unplayable smooth, while the 3080 will let you run shit on ultra that you were running on medium before.
 
I'm not sure what the state of skylake+++++ cross-compatibility is at the moment.  I remember the pencil trick from when the covfefe lake came out, but I'm not sure where it's at right now. 
 
OP, If you're comfortable with a single stroke of soldering iron, liquid metal, or a good art pencil you can run an 8700, 8700k, 9700, 9700k, 9900 or 9900k on that board as well.  But the 7700 or 7700k would be a lot cheaper, and would be sufficient for modern games.

look on fb marketplace, maybe ull find it cheaper. If its more than 60, not worth it. save up
 
is the 7600k overclocked? it overclocks pretty well.
 
personally i did not really notice a difference switching from an i7 4790k @4.8ghz single core @4.6ghz all core (which i sold) to a random i5 4590 @3.9ghz all cores, no hyperthreading

Its REALLY not worth it at 100$. If it was 20$, maybe. Its not even close to being worth it at 100$, save the money for the new build.

Yeah, the mod is to the CPU, drawing a trace between a couple pins.  You can use a pencil, or any other conductive material.  There are a couple videos on it.  Though, given where games are at and the 9xxx cores not being all that much faster than the 7xxx ones, unless a hyperthreaded quad core isn't gonna cut it, I'd probably just stick with a 7700k.  People also want stupid money for 9900ks on ebay, and for the cost of one you could just get a 5600 and a cheap board, making this whole effort pointless.
 
I'd stick with the cheapest option possible that'll get the job done, which would be a 7700 or 7700k.

I worked as an install tech for Comcast for a while. My job was to run the coaxial line from the tap (pole or pedestal) to your house, make sure it's grounded properly, and get your modem working. Of course, I had plenty of people asking for or even demanding troubleshooting that wasn't my job. This got even worse when I got a little too good at my job and they put me in the pool of techs that do all service calls, not just installs. Some of my favorites:
 
-I loved the ones where they complain about their slow internet speed. I would get there, connect my phone to the 5Ghz wi-fi network, run a speedtest from the Comcast server while I'm standing next to the modem, and show them that they were getting the download they're paying for. Then they would ask, "why don't I get that on my computer?". I would walk to wherever their computer was, connect my phone to whichever wi-fi network their computer was on and run the test again. "Is that what you get on your computer?" "Yeah" "That's how wi-fi works."

- HDMI issues. I never realized the sheer magnitude of how many ways a loose cable or fucked up pin can manifest itself. No signal error, pink screen, static, audio digitization, all sorts of bullshit. I had so many calls where the customer wouldn't let me do anything until they explained why they were convinced it was the Comcast box, and then I would just replace the HDMI cable.
 
- Even better were the calls where all I had to do to "fix" their TV was change inputs on the remote. I got more of those than you might think.
 
- I had one old guy who said his internet wasn't working at all. I pulled up google.com in his browser. "Seems to be working. What made you think it wasn't?". He gets all confused because he doesn't have a clue what I just did. Then he logs in to Microsoft Outlook 2003 and explains that his email isn't working. So I send a test email to myself, and it gets a server error. I tell him "Sorry, it looks like either your server settings in Outlook got messed up your actual email server is having issues. I don't know how to fix that, I don't have time to figure it out, and it's not my job anyway. This looks like a work email, so I would ask around at your company if anybody knows who hosts your server and go from there." I spent 30 minutes trying to explain that his Comcast service was working fine and I can't troubleshoot his 20 year old email server that he can't give me any info on. He didn't even know what a browser was, the only thing he had ever used the internet for was Outlook 2003. Looking back, I probably should have just created a gmail account for him, transferred his contacts, and sent out a group email saying that it was his new email address. Would've taken the same time, and I'm pretty sure that his company he'd retired from didn't exist anymore and had just stopped hosting his email.

Sorry, I clarified a bit further now. I was using myself as an example more than anything else.

I worked as an install tech for Comcast for a while. My job was to run the coaxial line from the tap (pole or pedestal) to your house, make sure it's grounded properly, and get your modem working. Of course, I had plenty of people asking for or even demanding troubleshooting that wasn't my job. This got even worse when I got a little too good at my job and they put me in the pool of techs that do all service calls, not just installs. Some of my favorites:
 
-I loved the ones where they complain about their slow internet speed. I would get there, connect my phone to the 5Ghz wi-fi network, run a speedtest from the Comcast server while I'm standing next to the modem, and show them that they were getting the download they're paying for. Then they would ask, "why don't I get that on my computer?". I would walk to wherever their computer was, connect my phone to whichever wi-fi network their computer was on and run the test again. "Is that what you get on your computer?" "Yeah" "That's how wi-fi works."

- HDMI issues. I never realized the sheer magnitude of how many ways a loose cable or fucked up pin can manifest itself. No signal error, pink screen, static, audio digitization, all sorts of bullshit. I had so many calls where the customer wouldn't let me do anything until they explained why they were convinced it was the Comcast box, and then I would just replace the HDMI cable.
 
- Even better were the calls where all I had to do to "fix" their TV was change inputs on the remote. I got more of those than you might think.
 
- I had one old guy who said his internet wasn't working at all. I pulled up google.com in his browser. "Seems to be working. What made you think it wasn't?". He gets all confused because he doesn't have a clue what I just did. Then he logs in to Microsoft Outlook 2003 and explains that his email isn't working. So I send a test email to myself, and it gets a server error. I tell him "Sorry, it looks like either your server settings in Outlook got messed up your actual email server is having issues. I don't know how to fix that, I don't have time to figure it out, and it's not my job anyway. This looks like a work email, so I would ask around at your company if anybody knows who hosts your server and go from there." I spent 30 minutes trying to explain that his Comcast service was working fine and I can't troubleshoot his 20 year old email server that he can't give me any info on. He didn't even know what a browser was, the only thing he had ever used the internet for was Outlook 2003. Looking back, I probably should have just created a gmail account for him, transferred his contacts, and sent out a group email saying that it was his new email address. Would've taken the same time, and I'm pretty sure that his company he'd retired from didn't exist anymore and had just stopped hosting his email.

I worked as an install tech for Comcast for a while. My job was to run the coaxial line from the tap (pole or pedestal) to your house, make sure it's grounded properly, and get your modem working. Of course, I had plenty of people asking for or even demanding troubleshooting that wasn't my job. This got even worse when I got a little too good at my job and they put me in the pool of techs that do all service calls, not just installs. Some of my favorites:
 
-I loved the ones where they complain about their slow internet speed. I would get there, connect my phone to the 5Ghz wi-fi network, run a speedtest from the Comcast server while I'm standing next to the modem, and show them that they were getting the download they're paying for. Then they would ask, "why don't I get that on my computer?". I would walk to wherever their computer was, connect my phone to whichever wi-fi network their computer was on and run the test again. "Is that what you get on your computer?" "Yeah" "That's how wi-fi works."

- HDMI issues. I never realized the sheer magnitude of how many ways a loose cable or fucked up pin can manifest itself. No signal error, pink screen, static, audio digitization, all sorts of bullshit. I had so many calls where the customer wouldn't let me do anything until they explained why they were convinced it was the Comcast box, and then I would just replace the HDMI cable.
 
- Even better were the calls where all I had to do to "fix" their TV was change inputs on the remote. I got more of those than you might think.
 
- I had one old guy who said his internet wasn't working at all. I pulled up google.com in his browser. "Seems to be working. What made you think it wasn't?". He gets all confused because he doesn't have a clue what I just did. Then he logs in to Microsoft Outlook 2003 and explains that his email isn't working. So I send a test email to myself, and it gets a server error. I tell him "Sorry, it looks like either your server settings in Outlook got messed up your actual email server is having issues. I don't know how to fix that, I don't have time to figure it out, and it's not my job anyway. This looks like a work email, so I would ask around at your company if anybody knows who hosts your server and go from there." I spent 30 minutes trying to explain that his Comcast service was working fine and I can't troubleshoot his 20 year old email server that he can't give me any info on. He didn't even know what a browser was, the only thing he had ever used the internet for was Outlook 2003. Looking back, I probably should have just created a gmail account for him, transferred his contacts, and sent out a group email saying that it was his new email address. Would've taken the same time, and I'm pretty sure that his company he'd retired from didn't exist anymore and had just stopped hosting his email.

I worked as an install tech for Comcast for a while. My job was to run the coaxial line from the tap (pole or pedestal) to your house, make sure it's grounded properly, and get your modem working. Of course, I had plenty of people asking for or even demanding troubleshooting that wasn't my job. This got even worse when I got a little too good at my job and they put me in the pool of techs that do all service calls, not just installs. Some of my favorites:
 
-I loved the ones where they complain about their slow internet speed. I would get there, connect my phone to the 5Ghz wi-fi network, run a speedtest from the Comcast server while I'm standing next to the modem, and show them that they were getting the download they're paying for. Then they would ask, "why don't I get that on my computer?". I would walk to wherever their computer was, connect my phone to whichever wi-fi network their computer was on and run the test again. "Is that what you get on your computer?" "Yeah" "That's how wi-fi works."

- HDMI issues. I never realized the sheer magnitude of how many ways a loose cable or fucked up pin can manifest itself. No signal error, pink screen, static, audio digitization, all sorts of bullshit. I had so many calls where the customer wouldn't let me do anything until they explained why they were convinced it was the Comcast box, and then I would just replace the HDMI cable.
 
- Even better were the calls where all I had to do to "fix" their TV was change inputs on the remote. I got more of those than you might think.
 
- I had one old guy who said his internet wasn't working at all. I pulled up google.com in his browser. "Seems to be working. What made you think it wasn't?". He gets all confused because he doesn't have a clue what I just did. Then he logs in to Microsoft Outlook 2003 and explains that his email isn't working. So I send a test email to myself, and it gets a server error. I tell him "Sorry, it looks like either your server settings in Outlook got messed up your actual email server is having issues. I don't know how to fix that, I don't have time to figure it out, and it's not my job anyway. This looks like a work email, so I would ask around at your company if anybody knows who hosts your server and go from there." I spent 30 minutes trying to explain that his Comcast service was working fine and I can't troubleshoot his 20 year old email server that he can't give me any info on. He didn't even know what a browser was, the only thing he had ever used the internet for was Outlook 2003. Looking back, I probably should have just created a gmail account for him, transferred his contacts, and sent out a group email saying that it was his new email address. Would've taken the same time, and I'm pretty sure that his company he'd retired from didn't exist anymore and had just stopped hosting his email.

Just a random question related to a possible build. If the primary purpose I'll use a rig for is video editing, what's aspect of my build will be under the most pressure? Should I focus on a CPU with more cores or a GPU with more VRAM or clock speeds, etc.? If I'm aiming for a budget well under a $1k and my video editing is not 4K, is 2GB of VRAM fine with components that won't bottleneck?