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TishMcGrish

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Hello, I currently have a Gigabyte 760g motherboard and a AMD FX-8350 CPU which is incompatible with my motherboard. I want to purchase a new mother board (Link at the bottom). I was wondering if my CPU would be compatible with the mobo. Also what i would have to do to prepare my pc before the uninstallation of my current Mobo. A lot of people were talking about uninstalling drivers and such. i was wondering if i needed to do anything that required that sort of attention prior to me making the switch. Thanks alot!!!


http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813131877
 
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Sysprep your old HD to avoid boot BSODs. To do this, go to C:\Windows\System32\Sysprep\sysprep.exe, check 'generalize', select 'OOBE' on drop down menu, and 'Shut down'.

When your new PC boots off of your old HDD, you'll get the 'out of box experience' screen, asking you to create new user account. Just call it anything and after that's done, you can log off and switch to your main user account.

Once you're logged in with your main account, you can safely proceed with deleting the newly made account in Control Panel > User Accounts applet

To clarify what sysprep does, it basicly gets rid of all platform specific data such as drivers and configuration files.

You can always just load windows from scratch when you get your new board...
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I have no idea what you said... I am completely computer ignorant and know nothing as to what you said. All i know is that its going to be difficult. Could you explain what you just said?
 
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Yes that CPU will work in that motherboard. That motherboard is overkill for your application and skill level unless it has a particular feature you need or is available to you at some unusual deal.

Yes you should go into device manager in windows and uninstall the chipset drivers for your current motherboard. Also uninstall any intel software if you are currently using an intel processor and chipset.
 
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I really dont want to spend that much money on a mobo but only am because it was suggested. I will be buying a fresh install of windows 8 as well and currently have amd. So im going from AMD to another AMD and getting fresh windows.
 
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Sysprep your old HD to avoid boot BSODs. To do this, go to C:\Windows\System32\Sysprep\sysprep.exe, check 'generalize', select 'OOBE' on drop down menu, and 'Shut down'.

When your new PC boots off of your old HDD, you'll get the 'out of box experience' screen, asking you to create new user account. Just call it anything and after that's done, you can log off and switch to your main user account.

Once you're logged in with your main account, you can safely proceed with deleting the newly made account in Control Panel > User Accounts applet

To clarify what sysprep does, it basicly gets rid of all platform specific data such as drivers and configuration files.

You can always just load windows from scratch when you get your new board switched. Then load the new MB drivers.
 
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Then don't buy it, there's little reason for you to spend that kind of money unless you will be overclocking or using multiple GPUs. Based on your application I would recommend this board instead. It's roughly half the price, carries the 9 series chipset with the features you want like USB3.0 without paying extra for moderately better overclocking and tri-gpu capabilities you don't need.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813157394
 
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I want a motherboard that will be of use for later in the future. I dont want to have to upgrade again anytime in the near future. I have just enough money from the Sabertooth and a OS so i might just go with that. I also wanted to have the option to overclock my CPU if i wanted to later.
 
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That ASRock 970 Extreme3 R2.0 board, is a good board too. It is an AMD970 board and very adequate and you can make a good gaming comp with it.

After the build it is best to go into BIOS and set it up, then install windows. After windows is installed, load the MB drivers. Then the programs that you will be using, etc. Update windows and your other programs/software.
 
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