building new gaming PC

[pivodrums]

Hi all,

I have an aproximately 10 year old PC (AMD Phenom X4 955, 4GB DDR2 ram, updated 7850 2gb gpu, corsair 600w, wd 640gb and updated 240gb samsung evo ssd). Is it even worth selling and if yes for how much? 200€? more/less?

Now to the topic, I',m building what is probably gonna be my last gaming PC 😉
I decided I was gonna take the i5-8600K with Asus prime Z370-A. Not sure about the rest though.
I would overclock it a bit so which cooler? I work in IT retail store so we have a lot of Coolermaster, artcic cooling and antec coolers here.
Will surely get 2x8 DDR4 RAM but which. We have many G.skills here, also some corsairs, crucials and apacers. What speed? Intel doesn't need hi speed rams as amd so 2400MHz should be enough?
for GPU I'll wait for prices to go down but since I have a new HP 27er (27" FHD 60Hz), I believe 1060 6gb should suffice.
Is it worth taking the 960evo m.2 over "ordinary" sata ssd?
PSU and cooler I think I can handle by myself 😉

Thank you very much for all answers in advance.

p.s. I need it for gaming

 

[J_E_D_70]

Don’t think I’d bother trying to sell that. Might even have problems giving it away.

Check the mobo website for ram QVL - as long as the timings are the same, the ram will perform identically.

2400 is OK - it’s not a huge difference to 3200 but there*is* a difference. Get fastest that fits in budget.

If you going to OC more than the basic turbo, will need something stronger than a 212 Evo.

1060 6gb is fine for that monitor.

The 960 Evo is nice but did NOT wow me like coming to an ssd from a hdd. You’ll shave a few seconds from boots n level loads but nothing drastic. If you need lots of storage, SATA3 MX500 or 860 Evo will do fine.