Right now he's trying to save as much money as possible, so he's planning on reusing most of his current setup. He's looking to replace his motherboard, CPU, and ram. Everything else is already covered.
He isn't planning on overclocking ever and he has a budget of around $400-500
Good upgrades for $473. If your friend upgraded to the 6600k for another 20 bucks he would have the ability to overclock if he changes his mind. That is also why I linked the motherboard. Not wanting to overclock is fine but not having the option later when he might want it would suck.
There is better RAM about for the same money (hostdomain/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820231929, sorry can't do links yet, hostdomain=newegg).
If your friend may ever overclock get the z170 board; otherwise an h110/b150/h170 would suffice. Asus make good boards.
It's easier to OC these days, my 6600k has been at 4.6ghz for 15 months, I think 4.4ghz is available to a suitably equipped monkey if they understand decimal points , as an idea of what the extra money on CPU and MB gets. The only real danger with a manual OC these days is booting with unintentionally high voltages due to decimal point mix ups. All modern OC'able motherboards should fail compute errors to restart then BIOS, often resetting the OC in the process. Much easier than jumpers
For certain games, typically MMO's, this will make the OC'd Skylake faster than stock i5's on 10nm die size when Canonlake releases in a couple of years.
He would also need a CPU cooler with the 6600K, but the stock "joke in every box" of an Intel cooler should be replaced if he gets a 6600 anyway. If he values his hardware or his ears it's best to factor in $30-£40 for a decent single tower air cooler with the price of the CPU, presuming he doesn't have one already. An OC (15w increase in CPU power usage on my system) creates more heat and so requires a bigger aftermarket cooler.
It's useful for us to also know what case, PSU and GPU he has, to advise more specifically
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