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Ok, so I'm planning to upgrade my PC. I Currently have a MSI micro ATX motherboard with a shitty amd cpu that I'm not quite sure of the name. I have 8 gb of Kingsont hyperx ram running at 1600 mhz. I have a Nvidia GTX 760 graphics card, a thermaltake 600w power supply, a 1 terrabit hard drive, and no ssds. I plan to upgrade to an ASUS x99 pro motherboard with 16gb of corsair vengence ram running at 2666 MHz. I plan to keep my current graphics card.  Also, I plan to get an i7 5820k (which i plan to overclock to about 4.0 ghz). Anyways I have two questions in this all. 1. Will 600 watts be enough to power all of this, or will i have to go with like a corsair HX 1000i? And secondly, since I'm keeping my same Hard drive, will I have any issues booting up to Windows 8 and having all of my data, or will i have to get a whole new OS and then re-download all my files? Any help is appreciated, Thank you!

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600w should be enough, but going to a i7 5820k and 16GB of DDR4 while keeping a GTX 760 is just stupid, I would recommend upgrading that and getting 8GB of RAM. Also, you *might* need to reinstall Winblows 8

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Good questions, none of them are relevant to what I am about to tell you.

Buy an i5 4670k.

Buy an MSI SLI Krait.

Buy another GTX 760 with the saved money.

Buy an SSD with the saved money.

600 Watts will be enough for this.

 

You will need to install a new version of Windows onto the SSD.

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I appreciate the insight, however i am perfectly fine with a 760 gpu. I don't run really demanding games and don't go in 4k or even 1444p. For what i use it for, it's okay. And as far with going with an i5 compared to an i7, I'm progressively getting more and more into stuff like programming, video editing, and others that I think an i7 would be better with :/. Also i didn't mention this, but I am not on a strict budget, this is why I'm opting for the newer i7 processors, instead of going with something like the 17 4960k, or an i5.  

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