Question First Time upgrading/Building a pc

[bishy76]

So i just bought an Asus z370-a mother board, i5 9600k with Cooler Master Hyper 212 EVO as the cooler, and NZXT H500 case Which should all arrive here on Friday. This is my first time doing any upgrading or PC building in general, I know how to do it, I just never have done it before. Basically im just looking for advice, like things i need to look out for or make sure i dont do. Also am wondering if this is a decent CPU upgrade from what i previously had which was a i5-6400 with a stock cooler. sorry if this was the wrong place to post this.

 

[WildCard999]

Hopefully the motherboard has a updated BIOS as it won't boot with the 9600K without it. You may want to save yourself time and cancel the motherboard and buy the Z390 version of it.

As for building there's plenty of guides out there.

 

[bishy76]

Hopefully the motherboard has a updated BIOS as it won't boot with the 9600K without it. You may want to save yourself time and cancel the motherboard and buy the Z390 version of it.

As for building there's plenty of guides out there.

So lets say that the bios isnt updated how would i go about fixing that? Could i download the newest version of the bios for that cpu now?

 

[WildCard999]

Hopefully the motherboard has a updated BIOS as it won't boot with the 9600K without it. You may want to save yourself time and cancel the motherboard and buy the Z390 version of it.

As for building there's plenty of guides out there.

So lets say that the bios isnt updated how would i go about fixing that?

You'd want to buy a cheap Intel Coffeelake Celeron to update the BIOS.
PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel - Celeron G4900 3.1 GHz Dual-Core Processor ($52.40 @ OutletPC)
Total: $52.40
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2019-01-02 14:41 EST-0500

Or return the 9600K and get a 8600K.

Or return the Z370 and get a Z390.

 

[bishy76]

Hopefully the motherboard has a updated BIOS as it won't boot with the 9600K without it. You may want to save yourself time and cancel the motherboard and buy the Z390 version of it.

As for building there's plenty of guides out there.

So lets say that the bios isnt updated how would i go about fixing that?

You'd want to buy a cheap Intel Coffeelake Celeron to update the BIOS.
PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel - Celeron G4900 3.1 GHz Dual-Core Processor ($52.40 @ OutletPC)
Total: $52.40
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2019-01-02 14:41 EST-0500

Or return the 9600K and get a 8600K.

Or return the Z370 and get a Z390.

Ok so im very sorry but the mobo i bought was the ASUS Prime Z390-A Motherboard LGA1151 (Intel 8th and 9th Gen) ATX DDR4 DP HDMI M.2 USB 3.1 Gen2 Gigabit LAN

Im stupid sorry again

 

[WildCard999]

It happens :lol:, at least you have the correct motherboard.

Also to answer your other question but the 9600K is going to be a good improvement over the i5-6400.
https://cpu.userbenchmark.com/Compare/Intel-Core-i5-9600K-vs-Intel-Core-i5-6400/4031vs3512

 

[bishy76]

Awesome thx for the help! One more thing i should be able to set my current ssd as my boot drive and it will just load win 10 right?

 

[WildCard999]

Awesome thx for the help! One more thing i should be able to set my current ssd as my boot drive and it will just load win 10 right?

Yes, when you build the system and if your using a SSD & HDD only connect the SSD initially. Install Windows onto the SSD and when the system is up and running then you can install the HDD. Doing this forces Windows to be installed on the SSD instead of HDD. If the HDD doesn't show up go into Disk Management and initialize the disk.