There are 2 types of M.2 SSD in the market, SATA based M.2 SSD and NVMe PCIe M.2 SSD, M.2 is just an 'interface' or 'connector'.

NVMe PCIe SSD is very fast but it is not worth my money if you ask me, I can't feel its existence in normal real life usage (I am just a normal user ), yes my PC does boot up few seconds faster than my normal SATA SSD but it still doesn't worth my money at least for me, I wouldn't recommend anyone to get it now (unless you are very rich ), wait for the cost and price to settle down first in the next few years. I bought it at a discounted price last time just to try it out and decided to keep it till now as my main daily driver FYI.

SATA based M.2 SSD is much cheaper, almost identical to 2.5" SATA SSD, speed wise is also similar to 2.5" SATA SSD as they are using SATA interface. And yes not all mobo support M.2, even if it does support M.2, you will need to check whether it supports NVMe or not before purchasing a NVMe PCIe M.2 SSD, if it doesn't, you can only install a SATA based M.2 SSD (like most of the laptops only support SATA M.2 SSD, except the newer one).

For pure speedy storage, SATA SSD is still more worth for now. And your mobo supports both SATA and PCIe M.2 SSD, 1.5GB is nothing since it can be transferred in just few seconds even with SATA SSD (provided the destination drive isn't too slow)

Good PSU doesn't come cheap, mostly starts from RM 400+/-, a top up of RM 100 can only grant you a PSU that is slightly better than the currently chosen one though.

If you still can find Seasonic S12II 520/620 in the market, then it should be the one that is closest to your budget, around RM 300+/-.

3GB is slightly slower than the 6GB model (around 90%) due to less CUDA cores.

Budget matters the most

If you have no requirement on the settings that you can run, then a 2k rig should be enough (add RM 500 for a basic FHD monitor).

2k rig consists of baisc i3 + GTX1050 2GB.

Sorry to tell you that you will need to buy new DDR4 RAM because Broadwell-E only supports DDR4 RAM. X99 (LGA2011-v3) mobo is very expensive and the total cost will be over your budget.

Intel Core i7 6800K - RM 1992
MSI X99A Raider - RM 960 Should be the cheapest for now
GSKill Ripjaws V 16GB (8GB x 2) DDR4 2400MHz RAM - RM 475
Palit GTX1050 2GB GDDR5 StormX - RM 565

Total: RM 3992 (ETech price inclusive of GST)

Bear in mind that CPU cooler and casing aren't included yet, you will need more top up to your available budget to be able to fit both of them. CPU cooler is needed for i7 6800K because it doesn't come with any stock cooler.

They will be unveiled this week in CES 2017 (mostly 5th of Jan).

I will wait if I am not in a hurry since the price is almost identical.

EVGA SuperNova 550 G2/EVGA SuperNova 650 GQ/Superflower Leadex Gold 550W, all around RM 450+/- and tier 1 PSU.

Nothing fancy on the casing? Looking for silent casing with no side window panel? Corsair might have few models that you are looking for then.

If you want to maintain a 7200 RPM drive then Seagate Barracuda 2TB is your "budget" choice (WD Blue 2TB is only 5400 RPM so it is slower than others), price is around RM 300+/-.

Not worth to upgrade if you are paying full amount for it.

But if you can get it at a very "attractive" price then why not? Just make sure you don't have to top up too much from your current Ivy Bridge (I assume you gonna sell it off)

If that's the case then I recommend you to save the money for next big upgrade instead

3TB variant is the one which has enormous failure rate, others are fine.

2 2TB Seagate Barracuda = 1 2TB WD Black.

I wouldn't fall for the overpriced "crap"

This post has been edited by terence_nwb: Jan 4 2017, 03:27 PM

It is way over budget for the specs you listed, you need 6k+ for it (excluding the GPU).

4.5k can get i5/i7 + GTX1060 6GB/RX480 8GB.

RAM doesn't fit, you need DDR4 RAM. What's the main purpose of the rig?

And you can find cheap Windows 10 key in Garage Sales, but I am not sure about the source of the cheap key though, beware of counterfeit product key.

Intel 7th gen Kaby Lake CPU is coming soon to Malaysia (within this week or this month), please refrain from buying Intel 6th gen CPU anymore if you are kind of person who always want to board the latest technology train, if you are in a rush to build a PC now, you can still go for 6th gen, the improvement of 7th gen over 6th gen isn't huge though FYI.

Oh I see, I calculated, 4.5k is within the reasonable price range.

Performance is almost the same, you might see few FPS ahead (like 1 to 3) for those models with higher clock speed, but you can always overclock the lower end model (with lower clock speed) to match the performance of the expensive model (with higher clock speed) manually.

Just get the cheapest model if you are tight in budget.

Get an i5 with the extra money then, GTX1050 is well enough for Dota 2.

Price drop rarely happens in Malaysia, the old and long obsoleted 4th gen Haswell CPU is still selling at the same price of 6th gen Skylake here

Well in fact 7th gen Kaby Lake CPU is slightly cheaper than 6th gen Skylake (up to $10 cheaper).

AM3/AM3+ mobo in ITX form factor is nowhere to be found now so it is quite impossible to re-use your CPU for ITX build.

mATX is still possible to find, but since you only have the processor to re-use (no DDR3 RAM right?), why don't just rebuild the whole thing?

I see, yes you can use that PSU for this build, but it might be a little bit overkill for this setup

CPU re-use
Asus M5A97 R2.0 AM3+ - RM 389
GSKill Aegis 8GB DDR3 1600MHz RAM - RM 239 (can add another 8GB if needed)
Zotac GTX1050 2GB GDDR5 Mini - RM 589
Kingston SSDNow UV400 240GB SSD - RM 338
Seagate Barracuda 1TB HDD - RM 219
PSU re-use
Tecware F3 - RM 125

Total: RM 1899 (ETech price inclusive of GST)

I am assuming that you have a CPU cooler with you (stock or 3rd party is fine).

Windows 10 will automatically install the driver for you (Internet connection is required if the driver is from Windows Update), though it might not be the latest version, especially GPU driver and sound card driver, that one you can update it manually (download from manufacturer website and execute the installer yourself).

Oops sorry I overlooked the form factor of the mobo, it is an ATX mobo.

You can consider Gigabyte GA-78LMT-S2 instead (RM 244 from ETech), BIOS update might be needed to support your CPU.

I checked your CPU cooler model, it seems like it is a low profile CPU cooler? Hopefully none of the components scattered around the CPU socket is blocking your CPU cooler

Intel 7th gen Kaby Lake has reached Malaysia, I think you can just get Kaby Lake instead

Overclocking, yes or no?

If you want the latest H270 series, then you can consider Gigabyte H270-HD3 (RM 549).

If don't mind about chipset age, then the older H170/B150 will be able to serve you well too, such as ASRock H170 Pro4 (around RM 500), Gigabyte H170-HD3 (around RM 500) etc.