i7-11700 Hardware Upgrade Question

Hi All,

I have decided to retire my trusty Haswell Hackintosh and have found a great deal on a gently used PC with the following specs:

Gigabyte Z490 Aorus Elite AC
Intel i7-11700
16gb g-skill ram
Samsung/hynix 256gb NVME m.2 ssd
600 watt modular power supply

The owner actually posted that this was a i7-10700 which is what peaked my interest then I noticed some CPUZ shots that showed it was an 11700.

I know I cannot use the IGPU with this processor so I plan on picking up an RX 580...

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