NEW PC builder need advice

[Finallightface]

So im totally new to the idea of building a system, i have a second cousin who usually does my pc builds.

Basicly im wanting to upgrade my system from  a 4790k to a 9700k, along with the ram and motherboard and PSU and cooler. Anyway im wondering if i can just simply build all these together slam in my current SSD and hard drive and windows will work fine aswell as all my files and applications. Is the process easy or am i going to have a bad time?

Any advice tips or tricks is greatly appreciated and this will be my first build and if you need any other info hit me up

[Manderis]

What do you do with your pc? 

I assume gaming. What kind of games? 

Gpu? 

Monitor resolution. 

 

And if you switch the motherboard windows might moan about licensing... 

[Finallightface]

1 minute ago, Manderis said:

What do you do with your pc? 

I assume gaming. What kind of games? 

Gpu? 

Monitor resolution. 

 

And if you switch the motherboard windows might moan about licensing... 

So i have a RTX 2080 atm (just got as my 980 decided to say bye bye) im currently using a benq 1080p 144hz monitor but plan on getting a 1440p 144hz monitor of some sort. I usually aim for high fps at a lower resolution. I play cities sky lines, division 2, sekiro, total war, csgo, resi 2, rainbow 6 siege

So about the mobo change will it be a big deal or rather straight forward just follow some steps?

[jerubedo]

1 hour ago, Finallightface said:

So i have a RTX 2080 atm (just got as my 980 decided to say bye bye) im currently using a benq 1080p 144hz monitor but plan on getting a 1440p 144hz monitor of some sort. I usually aim for high fps at a lower resolution. I play cities sky lines, division 2, sekiro, total war, csgo, resi 2, rainbow 6 siege

So about the mobo change will it be a big deal or rather straight forward just follow some steps?

It'll be straight forward. Just remove the old motherboard/RAM/cooler and put the new ones in. Windows 10 is pretty good about grabbing drivers for the new chipset and all that. Then, the only thing I'd do extra, is run CCleaner to clean up your registry of anything no longer in use.

 

The only thing to make sure of is that your PSU has 1x 8-pin CPU connector and 1x 4-pin CPU connector for the Z390 motherboard.