My friends wants to upgrade his pc.

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Okay, so my friend has a hp envy 700-010 http://support.hp.com/us-en/document/c03786823, and he wants to upgrade the gpu and cpu to a amd r9 280x- http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E168... and to the intel core i5 4690k- http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E168... He also wants to upgrade the case to http://www.sentey.com/en/stealth-plus-gs-6008-plus and the motherboard to the asrock z97 extreme 4- http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E168... and the power supply to Sentey® Power Supply 725w http://www.amazon.com/Xpp725-hs-Computer-48ampers-Cross... Any problems in the parts that i picked for him?

Heres the parts in a list form-
Gpu- Amd Radeon 280x
Cpu- Intel i5 4690k
Case- Sentey Stealth Plus
Mobo- Asrock z97 Extreme 4
Psu- Sentey Power Supply 725w
 
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Chances are that copy of Windows will not stay activated. OEM copies are tied to their motherboards, and an actual vendor install is worse, they tend to only activate on vendor hardware.

Also a fairly good chance that an AMD Windows install won't transfer over to an Intel one (personally I have always succeeded, but many people report failure, but I have used retail copies of Windows)

Not much point in an overclocking CPU without a decent heatsink, but you can always get that later. CX600 isn't a very good choice either, especially not for an overclocking system with an AMD card. XFX 550W, EVGA B2 600W, Antec HCG 520W, a few others. More expensive, but worth it in the long run.

Might consider a GTX960, a little cheaper, and they...
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I'd consider a different power supply. FSP, Seasonic, or EVGA are good places to start. You may get other suggestions. 725W is more than he needs unless he's planning to Crossfire later. 550 is enough in a Gold-rated PSU, 600 for a Bronze.
 
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Power supply is a little over-sized, and not a brand I am terribly familiar with. Most of your links are dead, so I can't get prices.

Basically building an all new computer. You won't be able to transfer Windows over to that build from the HP, so you will need to factor that cost in.
 
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His budget is 500-600 max, he has 500 from christmas, and 100$ from himself, and he probably wants to stick to amazon, but i gave the links in newegg because they were easy to find there.
 
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He is keeping the hdd, with win-7 on it, and im sorry the links messed up, its a bit wierd.
 
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Chances are that copy of Windows will not stay activated. OEM copies are tied to their motherboards, and an actual vendor install is worse, they tend to only activate on vendor hardware.

Also a fairly good chance that an AMD Windows install won't transfer over to an Intel one (personally I have always succeeded, but many people report failure, but I have used retail copies of Windows)

Not much point in an overclocking CPU without a decent heatsink, but you can always get that later. CX600 isn't a very good choice either, especially not for an overclocking system with an AMD card. XFX 550W, EVGA B2 600W, Antec HCG 520W, a few others. More expensive, but worth it in the long run.

Might consider a GTX960, a little cheaper, and they use a lot less power, so you would have less risk on the power supply. Also a few R9-285 and R9-380 out there that are a newer technology then the R9-280X(7970). A little more DX12 support which might come in handy later. All three cards trade blows when it comes to performance. GTX960 are out there running at 1.3Ghz quite cheap which makes up a lot of the gap. R9-285 and R9-380 do better with newer game engines. R9-280X handles higher resolutions a little better.
 
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Thanks for the long answer, and I upgraded my computer the same way, but also with a corsair 600w, and it says activate windows, go to settings to activate windows. This doesn't do anything, and I can barely see it, so I can bare with it. Is there any way I can fix that? And he is less computer savvy, so he wouldn't overclock his CPU. Also, just to be sure, are there any flaws that I made in the part picking, except for the psu.

 
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Well aside from the savings by not getting an overclockable chip, not much to change. i5-4460 or 4590 + H97 board should save about $40 that you can put towards the power supply.

CX series are not bad, just not that good. They tend to fail earlier due to non-temperature rated capacitors. If you keep them under-loaded they last a lot longer.

The only legitimate way to activate Windows is to purchase a license key. You might try over the phone activation, but they don't generally activate OEM keys.

Eventually a non-genuine copy of Windows will shut itself off every hour, or not make it past the lock screen until activated.
 
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