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Building new pc with old CPU. Help would be much appreciated.

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Hello everyone, 

I have a prebuild pc. Yeah, I know they're bad, but because of the launch of the Witcher 3 i'd like to build myself a new one. I have an I7-2600 in my current pc and i would like to use in the new pc. By the way, the pc is supposed to be game oriented. So far I have chosen these components and I'd like to hear what you think:

GPU: EVGA GTX 980 Superclockeed ACX 2.0

Case: Phanteks Enthoo Pro

PSU: Be Quiet! Power Zone 650W

SSD: ADATA SSD Premier Pro SP600S3 256GB SATA

Motherboard : Asrock Z97 PRO 4 LGA 1150

RAM: G.Skill DDR3 2x4gb ripjawsx 2400mhz cl11 (will there be any problems with compability if I use my old RAM? It's DDR3 too, but i don't know it's frequency)

CPU cooling: Thermalright HR-02 Macho Rev.B

CPU+Hard drive from old pc.

My budget is more or less like this. 

Thanks in advance for any help! 

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you can't put 2600 in that motherboard. You will have to keep the motherboard from your old pc too.

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Is it necessary to use old motherboard for that? It's micro ATX so it won't fit better GPU

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Is it necessary to use old motherboard for that? It's micro ATX so it won't fit better GPU

well you can get another z77 motherboard

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You can read in my signature what I think of 980s ;) everything else is fine except the motherboard. You can't use a 2600 in a z97 mobo. You need a motherboard with the LGA 1155 socket, but z97 uses the LGA 1150 socket. You need a p67, z68 or z77 motherboard to get the most out of your cpu. Those aren't in production anymore, so you need to look on e-bay or amazon for leftovers. z77 is the best of the 3, but either one will do.

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Ty Sauron, I'll see what I can do ;) +I know that 980s are much overpriced, but i think that one 980 is better than 2 970s and if that's the fact i can spend a bit too much, because i won't be upgrading it fast anyway.

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Correct me if I'm wrong please because i have totally no idea if 2 970s would be better than 980. And by the way, is configuring SLI very hard to do?

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And how about ram? If i have 2x4gb DDR3s with unknown frequency and i would like to use in addition 2x4gb stated above will there be any problems?

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