Upgrading PC soon; clean installation needed?

Lordmetro

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Hello everyone,

My current PC is a bit outdated and will be upgrading most of it's parts. Will I need to do a clean installation or would it be ok to get paragon p2p to delete the old drivers?

My current PC

nforce 630i mobo (Upgraded from integrated graphics to a GT 630 previously)
Intel Core 2 Quad 8200
4GB RAM DDR2 (800MHZ)
650GB (Windows 7 is on this)
500GB (Keep this for backups - no OS is installed on this drive)
Nvidia GT 630
500W Cooler Master PSU
Packard Bell case (no case fans :( )

And I'm thinking of upgrading to these parts

I5 4690K (a big upgrade from the core 2 quad)
Gigabyte Z97P-D3 (needs a new socket)
Corsair Vengeance 8GB 1600MHZ DDR3 (same thing for ram)
Zalman Z11 Plus Midi Tower Case (for case fans as its quite hot in it's current case)

And in a couple of months, I will be looking to upgrade the PSU and GPU to a 750w be quiet PSU and a R9 280X.

Though, my question is, is a clean install - NEEDED after the upgrade? Or can I use paragon p2p

 

Lordmetro

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Yes you can from the bios. The thing is actually booting it after a motherboard change.



Umph, I was thinking the same thing. My idea is to backup everything on the other hard drive I have and then after the clean install I can restore every file I have back to it. I just didn't want to consume time :heink:
 


that actually not the point...the main point is getting all the configuration to work with a new motherboard, CPU. that's why i said just clean install it....less hassle.
 

Eximo

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I successfully did a migration from an nforce2 (Athlon X2) chipset to X58 Intel. Did a clean wipe for Windows 8 + SSD + AHCI, then transferred that OS to a Z87 board. No software tools required.

Paragon looks like a system image/sysprep shortcut for injecting drivers. Might give that a try myself later.

 


paragon is one of the best when migrating...but there are software that does not like it ...thus sometimes you will have BSOD. when using the program.
 

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