How good is win10 with new motherboard

Hardwood

Hardwood

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Yes, I'm going to yank out my MSI motherboard and FX8350 and pop in an Asus x570, some DDR ram and a Ryzen 5600G. I'll keep my RX580 and have no choice but to stay on win10 with the old hardware.

I REALLY don't want to or have the time to reinstall the OS and the oodles of programs from scratch.

Will I have any luck with the OS figuring this out on it's own? I do plan on uninstalling pcie hardware I won't be using first.

FWIW I do have a USB ready to install the OS from scratch if necessary.

I'd appreciate your tips, experiences and anything else you can offer to make this less painful. Thanks.
 
It's really good, it'll find all the necessary drivers and get you up and running. I would recommend installing mobo driver's from manufacturer website afterwards.
 
acroig said:
It's really good, it'll find all the necessary drivers and get you up and running. I would recommend installing mobo driver's from manufacturer website afterwards.
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This. Win 10 is much better at adjusting itself to new hardware than previous versions. Just be aware that new CPU/mobo combos may make you activate Windows again, but that process is pretty easy. There's an "I changed hardware" option in the activation dialog I believe.
 
I had no issues dealing with a switch from my i7 4770k based system to the new one in my signature. Win 10 handled it like an absolute champ.
 
Trunks0 said:
I had no issues dealing with a switch from my i7 4770k based system to the new one in my signature. Win 10 handled it like an absolute champ.
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The thing is if you have crashes and if you just switched and not reinstall you are in foir a very complex troubleshooting.
 
badsykes said:
The thing is if you have crashes and if you just switched and not reinstall you are in foir a very complex troubleshooting.
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Good point!
I can't remember the last time the OS crashed. There was a couple game related but they've cleared up.

I'm only doing this because:
1) no win11 without a change of mobo/cpu
2) I can. :cool:
 
That worked well. The only stumbling block was it couldn't find a bootable device. :nag:

A little searching revealed I needed to enable the Compatibility Support Module CSM in the Boot Menu.
 
acroig said:
This.
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Yes, My OS disk is MBR which is not helping.
Acronis said I needed to have a blank formatted disk to convert from MBR to GPT so I was sweating a bit there, but I just watched a vid on using mbr2gpt. So I've done that, it says successful so I'm about to restart and change the BIOS.

CMD admin commands were:
mbr2gpt /validate /disk:3 /allowfullos
mbr2gpt /convert /disk:3 /allowfullos

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Holy crap!!! it worked, PHEWW.
Turned off CSM, turned on secure boot.
Now health check says I'm good for win11. I have the latest chipset drivers installed but I'm still missing a win10 update to completely fix the L3 cache?
 
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demo said:
It's been fine for me, I find it an improvement over win10 but not by much.
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You hopping on the ADL train?

BTW, been testing the Turbo Ratio again. 53x @ 4cores, 51x @ 5-10. Working great. I haven't really seen it hit 53x in games, but it's regularly hitting it in Windows. I have EIST disabled with SpeedStep enabled - seems like Windows 11 handles this better than Windows 10 did. I rarely seen my low-core turbo ratios hit in Windows 10.
 
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Nunz said:
You hopping on the ADL train?
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I was going to skip a gen but a colleague offered to buy my current board, chip, and RAM, so maybe.. Will wait for benchmarks and I expect teething problems with big/little at first, so no rush.
 
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