help with upgrading

Jordanmicahcass

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Dec 14, 2016
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Hello, my motherboard is a asus/gigabyte (intel h81 chipset) (matx.) I was wondering if it would be enough to support an intel core i5-6600k and a gtx 1080. any answers would be good. I'm just lookng to upgrade my current build. This is my current build.
Processor: Intel Core i5 4590 3.30GHz quad core
Motherboard: ASUS/GIGABYTE Intel H81 Chipset MATX
System Memory:8GB DDR3 1600 MHz Digital Storm Certified Performance Series
Power Supply: 600W Corsair CX
Storage 1: SSD 120gb Samsung 850 evo
Storage 2: 1TB Seagate 7200 RPM 64MB Cache
High speed network port
Graphics card: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 4GB with PhysX
Integrated Motherboard Audio
High performance cooler with large fan and copper pipes
windows 10 home 64bit
 
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No, a 6600K is a socket 1151 chip and your motherboard is socket 1150. I would not replace your i5-4590, it is still a very good CPU. You can put a GTX 1080 if you like, but I would get a higher quality power supply too as I would not want to run a $500 GPU on a $40 PSU.

Do you have a monitor that can make use of this GTX 1080?
No, a 6600K is a socket 1151 chip and your motherboard is socket 1150. I would not replace your i5-4590, it is still a very good CPU. You can put a GTX 1080 if you like, but I would get a higher quality power supply too as I would not want to run a $500 GPU on a $40 PSU.

Do you have a monitor that can make use of this GTX 1080?
 
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Unfortunately, I've already commited to buy the 6600k. I may just sell it if my CPU is good enough. I have 1k range for my upgrade, but i'm wanting to spend as little as possible. My main focus was just to upgrade my GPU, and get some more ram, i just wasnt sure what all I would need to upgrade. As far as monitors go, I plan on getting a pretty good 1440p monitor, but if I have enough extra money, i may just upgrade to 4k. What power supply would you recommend?
 


So, with what I currently have, all I need to do is upgrade my power supply to support the 1080? It wouldnt bottleneck, would it? I dont plan on OC or anything.
 
Well you can't overclock a 4590 anyway. It should run fine, some games that are CPU bound you may see a 10%-15% reduction in frames compared to a heavily overclocked i7-6700k. Not enough to justify spending an additional 40% in upgrade cost for a bigger CPU.