Purchasing new PC, can I use my old graphics card and hard drives?

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Hi, my current PC is very old and not worth upgrading, so instead I am looking at buying a new PC and I want to know if I could use my old graphics card, and hard drives on my new PC- to save money on it.

So instead of going straight out to a new graphics card, I can use my old one until I can afford a better one.

Current Stuff:
■ My current GPU: ATI Radeon HD 5870 1GB Video Card
My current OS drive: Kingston SSDNow V300 Series 120GB 2.5" Solid State Drive
My current hard drive: Samsung Spinpoint F1 DT 500GB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive

Can I put them into this build:
CPU: Intel Core i5-4690k Devil's Canyon 3.5GHz 6MB Retail Box
MB: Asus B85M-E LGA 1150 mATX Motherboard
Memory: G.Skill 8GB Kit (2x4GB) DDR3 Ripjaws X C9 1600MHz
OS Drive: (none- want to use old)
Storage Drive: (none- want to use old)
GPU: (none- want to use old)
PSU: FSP Aurum S 650W 80PLUS Gold
Wireless: TP-LINK WN881ND 300Mbps Wireless N PCIe Adapter

The GPU I will be getting later will be: MSI GeForce GTX970 Gaming 4GB PEAK GDDR5 2x DVI HDMI
 
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Yeah you definitely can use them, there is no problem. The PSU is large enough to handle the gtx 970 in the future as well. Just look into a differnet motherboard or a different CPU, this CPU is made for overclocking so either get a z97 board so you can overclock it or drop down to the i5-4590, no point in spending extra cash on feature you will not use.
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Yeah you definitely can use them, there is no problem. The PSU is large enough to handle the gtx 970 in the future as well. Just look into a differnet motherboard or a different CPU, this CPU is made for overclocking so either get a z97 board so you can overclock it or drop down to the i5-4590, no point in spending extra cash on feature you will not use.
 
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Is it worth spending an extra $105 just to overclock? or should I just downgrade to a non-overclockable CPU, does overclocking effect gaming performance THAT much?
 
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Actually it doesn't affect it pretty much at all, also you will need a dedicated cooler which is like $30 at least. Personally I would drop down to a 4590 and call it a day. Your GPU will become slow way before the CPU becomes slow (and that is not in the next 3-4 years). Also consider dropping down to a 550W psu, since you will be going with the gtx 970. somethign like the evga supernova g2 550w is a great choice.
 
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Overclocking graphics card does not need special hardware, but software and just a strong PSU and good case airflow. Overclocking CPU needs special CPU with K and a special motherboard with Z in the name. Then you can overclock it from BIOS/UEFI menu. Needless to say that you need after market cooler, a good airflow and strong PSU.

Depending on the game and how you do it, overclocking both parts CAN (can, not must) have an impact, like 20-25 fps. Especially the graphics card have a bigger impact on most games than CPU. But doing it to the extreme will definitely decrease lifetime of your hardware and there is a risk that something bad can happen. I don't recommending doing it. Doing it slightly is ok, but I don't recommending it to the extremes, if you don't want change your hardware for a long time.

GPU Witcher 3
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@1080P:

ULTRA w/ hairworks on: 30~40FPS
ULTRA w/hairworks off: 53~55FPS
HIGH w/ hairworks on: 50~53FPS
HIGH w/ hairworks off: 60+ FPS (reaching up to 78 if im not wrong)
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> http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/answers/id-2650349/witcher-gtx-970.html


CPU Witcher 3
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I cannot recall the last time we tested a video game that showed absolutely no performance difference between the Core i7 clocked at 2.5GHz and 4.5GHz.
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> http://www.techspot.com/review/1006-the-witcher-3-benchmarks/page5.html

CPU Project Cars
4.5 Ghz: 72 fps
3.0 Ghz: 66 fps
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Overclocking the Core i7-4770K didn’t help squeezing more performance out of the GeForce GTX Titan X, while reducing the clock speed to just 2.5GHz didn’t impact performance greatly either.
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> http://www.techspot.com/review/1000-project-cars-benchmarks/page5.html

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Forgot to say, I play with GTX 970 without overclocking it and a non overclockable Xeon 1230v3 at 3.3 Ghz with hyper threading (its like a i7 without overclocking feature and no integrated graphics unit). I absolutely have no needs to overclock and decrease lifetime of my system. I can play everything at high or highest settings at 1080p with at least 60 fps. If I would set to console like settings, it would be often just normal settings below high. My predict for future: I think you can play everything 5 years from now guaranteed with at least 30 fps on a 1080p resolution. You just have to lower quality settings.
 
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If I'm getting a non K processor, do I really need a Z170?
 
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You can only OC on Z170
 
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