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Upgrade the SSD to a Samsung 960 Pro to triple the speed.

If you are paying for electricity, the 80plus gold will make up the $40 additional cost on your power bill overtime, as the 80 plus gold will draw less power to produce the same amount of watts for your system. At the same time, the 80 plus gold will produce less heat due to its efficiency and...

Sorry for the delayed response. Yes your 600w will be plenty of power. The minimum requirement is a 500w for those graphics cards

An RX570 would be a pretty good upgrade if you are able to find one a) in stock and b) for a good price. A comparable Nvidia card would be the GTX 1060 6gb, which would be an upgrade, for about the same price. As far as power connectors, it depends on the manufacturer, it could be a 6pin or...

Not sure about the exact model of the case, but the brand is Cyberpower Corsair makes a similar looking RGB case that I would recommend if you are unable to get that case through cyberpower

That laptop is a great choice for a home, office, work PC. The newest i5 with a solid state is a great combo, and for that price will be hard to beat.

GTX 1050 is probably the best video card you could get for the money. A 1050ti would work, but you may not see a big improvement over the regular 1050 due to the CPU

UEFI must be turned on in the BIOS and windows needed to be installed with UEFI on to support hard drives larger than two terabytes.

Some GTX 1060 6gb are recommending 500w PSU minimum, I would recommend getting a good quality 550w or higher PSU.

Yes, I've used Acronis in the past. I personally prefer Macrium, but Acronis works just as good.

The only way I could justify having someone buy an 1800x over a 1700 is if they were not overclocking at all (whether they don't know how or whatever their reason is). They will get 600MHz faster base clock and 300MHz faster boost, which is a pretty good performance increase. Still, it is up to...

The only difference between the 1700 and the 1800x is the binning. You may hit the "silicon lottery" and happen to get a 1700 that can overclock as high as an 1800x, however it is very unlikely and id say in over 90% of cases you will always be able to overclock an 1800x higher than a 1700...

if you want to have a back up of everything including windows, use a program called Macrium and create a system image.

no, they won't work.