End of Year PC Build

For a 13700K build, it's important to know that the 12th and 13th-gen chips are considerably different than the previous Intel CPU architectures. New Intel CPUs like the 13700K have Performance and Efficient cores. Think P cores as large cores for heavy tasks like encoding and gaming. E cores for light/background tasks and power saving. You need to install the correct Intel chipset drivers and update your Windows 10 to get the new Windows task scheduler to properly take advantage of the P and E cores.

Personally, I would do a clean install of Windows 11 but you probably don't have to. In theory, your old Windows 10 installation should work fine as long as you uninstall the unnecessary old drivers, install the right drivers for your new hardware (especially the Intel chipset drivers), and fully update your Windows 10. If that doesn't work somehow, then you need to do it the hard way. I know it's a pain in the ass to do a clean install of Windows 11, get necessary apps, drivers, tweak the settings, and sort out all your game mods.

It says it will give the option to set it up locally do you remember if it did that and if I have OneDrive delinked for this PC I assume it will have no choice anyway yeah?

How about upgrading to Win 11 (not a clean install, just updating), assuming it won't mess up my file paths already. And then clone the drive with the OS on?

This is all too complicated for me. I really need a pro to do this for me.

Considering the bandwidth of DD5 it will mop the floor even at root speed.
See my previous post. Most Z790's are going to require a Bios flash to be updated to use that CPU. The one I link NATIVELY supports 13th Gen. 
This is easy to do -especially with the Paid version of EaseUS. Also if you clone the drive -you would not loose data -till you format the host drive. The bad thing is -if the drive being cloned has issues: IE: corruption, multi-data, ect or exceeds the drive to be cloned to... You can get problems. However if you have this and you have games installed. Its best they are not on the same drive as windows because then the above will not only wipe the game but lead to reinstall.  

Well I havent done it on Win11 so might differ. Basically at least for me on every machine, onedrive just sits there doing nothing until I open it. I use my Microsoft account to login to machines so its on every machine available, but does nothing by itself as it should..

So not really sure about "set it up locally". Delink will go away I think.. not sure. But! You can configure OneDrive what it does and to which directory, just dont let it do anything automatically

That cooler is less than half the price of the Noctua D15! Is that correct??
I used the D14 for only a year or so. When I brought my computer to my PC guy to install another SSD because I couldn't even pull that off he somehow said that cooler is no good for my airflow and installed a Scythe top blower for like 50 bucks. I thought that was odd but I've never had any issues with my system so I shrugged it off. My PC guy is NOT a gaming PC expert, he usually does systems for office use and such. So he cleaned up the bad win 10 install a college friend did for me and overall made my system run well.

Can I get an adapter for the D14 model if I bought it so long ago? According to their website I can order one for free. I hope the mounting kit fits a 2015 model... So would a D14 be sufficient at all? Read a thread that claimed a D15 would be better. But that one is super expensive. So if I can get away with reusing the D14 that would be awesome.

As for GPUs: I want at least twice the frames. Isn't a 3060 about as fast as the 1080Ti I already have? For double fps I would be in the 4070Ti ballpark, I believe. The price for just 12GB is ridiculous though so I might have to make do with the 1080Ti for another year and hope Nvidia stops with their planned obsolescence scheme. But seeing how AMD is on the greed train now too and fixing the GPU market, I'm not optimistic. I hate how a 4080 is pushed at people like me who want max settings and ray tracing for a few years. I COULD afford it. But I don't want to pay cutthroat prices. Sigh.

I also need a capable card for modding. Even a 4090 gets pushed to the limit by Skyrim modding, lol. Personally I just want to be able to finally play Cyberpunk (and future games) with RT at 30-60fps without DLSS for 2-3 years. I do like my games as shiny as possible but the most I ever paid for a card was 630€ for my used 1080Ti. And that was already about 150 more than I ever wanted to pay for a card... If I do upgrade this year, I'll give my old card to my ex for free most likely. He has a 1070 and is looking to upgrade as well. His needs aren't as expensive as mine though.

Too tired and too pissed off to comment too much right now but F$%king OneDrive is unbelievable, did a fresh restart, told it to install everything locally. specifically told it not to install Onddrive (it did), delinked, deleted onedrive folders and game files still install to Onedrive "Documents" folder even though it did not exist at the time so I again end up with two damn Documents folders.

A whole damn day wasted again.   

I have found a solution online just now but it's too late and will decide tomorrow if I can be bothered fighting it again tomorrow since I again have everything working except FMM and my MODS for MEA. 

No the reset does remove it all it is just when you tell it to install everything locally and to NOT install Onedrive it does install it I believe because Onedrive in Windows 11 from what I read tonight is part of Windows Defenders "back Up" security function in case of damn Ransom Ware or something.

You basically have to let it install it. then go in and turn it all off (folder by folder and repoint files) and go through several other steps then delink it so it doesn't keep automatically backing stuff up even though the damned thing isn't even technically installed. 

I need to decide tomorrow whether I can be bothered or just work around it, I wasted at least 8 hours today on it again. 

Sorry, couldn't resist! Your 1080Ti is faster than the 3060. Yes, that's how graphics cards 'evolve' these days. A 3070 would be tad faster, and a 3080 is a lot faster than your 1080Ti. A RTX 4070 Ti would probably be my choice.

Sorry. 
You are right -I was misled about that fact by Amazon and Newegg that only say 12th Gen on most of their board offerings. 
That said...Kappa Neko  that Gigabyte board is still the best money to performance ratio I think you will get without having to shell out over 200. 
There are others cheaper but they most likely would not last a decade of use -its still true: You get what you pay for. 

Twice the frames? Ok I will get on that shortly and yes the 3060 is just a little slower than the 1080TI according to here: 
hwbench.com/vgas/geforce-rtx-3060-vs-geforce-gtx-1080-ti

I was looking at a possible GPU that would give the PC longevity for another decade especially since your considering to play with RT.
That usually means something close to top of the line and not to old and I wasn't sure of the budget. However if you have plans are for a 4000 series I will concede that the lowest card that gives that good of frames is the 4070 TI. Though it most likely would be triple the frames not double -would need a 3080 12 GB for that -especially if modding in 4K.

Currently the 4070TI that are on Amazon are around $800-$850. I don't know how good going from a 256-bit bus to a 192-bit bus will fare for you. Some can see a difference whille -others not so much. Now I know you want to give it for free but if you were to ask even 250 for  the 1080TI that would get close to the 800/850 needed. 

The RESET does what the name implies I would assume. 
As in resets the OS so everything that was installed initially gets reinstalled thus One Drive is added.