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Need Insight for Motherboard Swap for SLI

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October 15, 2014 8:52:59 AM

Hello, I wanted to seek some opinions and advice on what to do for an upgrade I am thinking about committing to.

Background

I built a PC (as a novice) and the motherboard I used only had one PCI slot for a GPU. I didn't think much of it as I installed a GTX 650. Down the road, I upgraded to a GTX 780. It has come time for me (with the recent release of the 900 series GPU's and the potential decrease in price for the 700 series) to start looking into going dual 780's in an SLI configuration.

Question

I am wondering what the process of swapping motherboards would entail, and what steps I must go through if I purchase a new motherboard that supports SLI. Is it just transferring the HSF and CPU and other hardware components to the new mobo and re-activating Windows (8.1)? Do I have to do anything with my drivers? Any other additional information will help. Thanks for helping me!

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a c 141 V Motherboard
October 15, 2014 9:34:21 AM

A SLI-able MoBo swap is a good move. You'd need to re-install CPU/ heatsink (and pretty much every component connected to current MoBo) and Windows as well (OEM will be locked when put on diff MoBo, re-activating would do the job). And drivers should be updated to latest once you install GPU. Data will be unaffected. Make sure new MoBo will fit in case (like mATX or ATX).

And stay with Asus/ GB/ ASROCK/ MSI in terms of brands. Nothing much else really :) 
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October 15, 2014 10:25:17 AM

MeteorsRaining said:
A SLI-able MoBo swap is a good move. You'd need to re-install CPU/ heatsink (and pretty much every component connected to current MoBo) and Windows as well (OEM will be locked when put on diff MoBo, re-activating would do the job). And drivers should be updated to latest once you install GPU. Data will be unaffected. Make sure new MoBo will fit in case (like mATX or ATX).

And stay with Asus/ GB/ ASROCK/ MSI in terms of brands. Nothing much else really :) 


OK, that sounds great. I currently have an MSI mobo and I have been eyeing an ASUS mobo, will that create any issues?
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a c 141 V Motherboard
October 15, 2014 10:58:02 AM

Nope, no issues as long as you stay with the CPU chipset supported ones :) 
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