Yes.

not necessarily

i went from an AM3 platform to lga 1150 on the exact same windows installation, all i did was uninstall a lot of drivers first then shut down and when i turned it back on with the new mobo/cpu windows 7 just went ballistic auto installing drivers at the desktop and I was done. No issues and performance was not hindered (98th percentile userbenchmark score for the same hardware)

Yes i know it's possible actually have argued with ghot many times

Hence the second part of the post

and if u went with a fresh installation u'd have a lot less of a headache

yupitsmeh is correct here

backup certain files u went and save to separate usb, then xfer them over to fresh OS. it's not that hard.

This post was edited by JohnMiller92 on Dec 28 2017 05:41pm

it takes massively longer to do a fresh install and optimize my os in all the particular ways i prefer and install all my shit again so not really

sounds like a personal problem

if it takes you longer to uninstall some drivers than to do all that stuff idk maybe get more familiar with device manager

I have personally done both many times
Windows tweaks are usually done just as fast considering ssd install now days
I have been forced to do it device manager way many times considering software would be totally lost
And safe mode is great it
There use to be 3rd party software out there that helped make it few clicks like ddu

and then installing everything else you want on your ssd again?
i think it just can't take less time and effort to merely uninstall all the mobo related drivers beforehand

Lol many companies have software that needs to be removed also
Just not drivers

Not to mention shit load of other bloat

Like i said i have done both ways many times


This post was edited by yupitsmeh on Dec 28 2017 06:31pm