what precautions to take before changing the motherbaord.

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dipanjan biswas

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hey guys,
i'm changing my old b75 intel motherboard to asus z77 one for overclocking my cpu to 4.5 ghz.
my old mobo just couldn't let me to do that. i have plugged in a r9 270x gfx card with it and using a 128 gigs ssd as c drive... i have heard of a lots of probs caused by just changing the mobo.
I have a windows 8.1 OEM , so i'm not worried if i had to format my pc.
but last time i just unplugged my amd gpu , a big prob occurred , even formatting c drive did solve nothing. may have caused by registration of hardwares.
so just asking what to do before unplugging and changing my mobo for a hassle free upgrade.
should i just uninstall al motherboard and graphics card drivers?
and one question , i am looking for a upgrade from my current gpu. i have only 200$ budget for gpu. so should i sell my current one and get a r9 280x or just buy an another r9 270x and put it on crossfire to get more performance.
 
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thanks ..
the links you provided were very helpful.
do you think 2 r9 270x will help me to keep up at least 2years at 1080p ultra settings?
i have heard that 2xr9 270x are more powerful than a single r9 290x .. is that true?
if it is then i'm surely doing the crossfire-x.
i have a cooler master 600 watt psu. which won't be able to power both of the cards..
so please suggest me a good and cheap power supply.


 
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does graphics card drivers have anyhting to do with motherboard..
i have seen that AMD drivers are pretty problematic

 
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Yes it is true R9 270x crossfired give much more performance. But people usually prefer a single GPU because people get mad while setting up the crossfire. And sometimes even result in flicks.
But once it is on, it is a great set. And as for the future proofness, It depends on the GPU makers. But as per the roadmap of amd & nvidia, I guess you will be able to play games at 1080p ultra for 2 years
(not all : [even today you can't play watch dogs at full settings with 50+fps without a titan card]).
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So, and yes graphics card driver(specially AMD) looses stability on a mobo and cpu change. So you may have to completely reinstall your driver using DDU, etc.
 
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when it comes down to it always better get the fastest single card you can. Even to this day every once in a while games have issues with sli or CFX and you will be stuck with one card.


While I have older 580's that still do well in everything I play, I ran into issues playing The elder scrolls online and was only able to run 1 and suffered from it. Some games are not optimized for sli/cfx when released and fixed later. So while 2 270x are faster then a single 290x when you run into issues you will be kicking yourself that you didn't go with a single card.
 
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