Moved from AMD 8150fx to Intel i5-6600k and my boot drive still works, what should I do?

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Now I wasn't expecting this to work. But installed a new MB with the new intel skylake and plugged by Samsung evo 850 in from my old AMD motherboard.
Old MB asus sabertooth 990fx
New MB asus z170-ar
Also I'm on Windows 10.

When I booted, the internet didn't work, but then I installed the asus mb drivers and it all worked.
I then turn off the old asus monitoring tool that tells me my voltage is off. I tried to delete this from program and features, but it wouldn't let me.

Now here's my question, I have a samsung m.2 nm951 I want to make my boot drive. Possibly I could migrate the old evo 850, but would it be worth it. Would it still run ok even though it might have some old amd drivers still on it. Or should I do a clean install.
My gut tells me to do a clean install. Or maybe I should just go with it until I find some problems. I mostly just use it for visual studio, no high powered games
 
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That is very good news. In the past, with windows 7, I have been utterly unable to get a amd to intel conversion boot.

My reading says that the Samsung ssd migration tool does not work with the nm951 device.
You are looking at a clean install there.

A clean install will require reinstall of any apps that used the registry.
If you are ok with that go ahead.

I might continue to run a bit to see if anything else turns up.

On the m.2 951, I think you should hold off.
I am going to do that.
The os depends mainly on fast random I/o, not sequential speeds. A current 850 evo will be about as fast in most things.
The Z170 chipset enables some faster devices and I anticipate that there will be something much better coming in the not too...
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That is very good news. In the past, with windows 7, I have been utterly unable to get a amd to intel conversion boot.

My reading says that the Samsung ssd migration tool does not work with the nm951 device.
You are looking at a clean install there.

A clean install will require reinstall of any apps that used the registry.
If you are ok with that go ahead.

I might continue to run a bit to see if anything else turns up.

On the m.2 951, I think you should hold off.
I am going to do that.
The os depends mainly on fast random I/o, not sequential speeds. A current 850 evo will be about as fast in most things.
The Z170 chipset enables some faster devices and I anticipate that there will be something much better coming in the not too distant future.
I see Samsung ssd sales suggesting a clearing of inventory.
 
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Hmm, I read that it would be a lot faster than my 850 as long as I had it configured correct.
Most of the speed I'd like improvement of is in visual studio. We'll I'm going to try it and see how much faster my rebuild which currently takes about 15 seconds speeds up.
 
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Update:
1. Had to update bios on asus z170-ar or M.2 mode wouldn't work.

Now guess what, I cloned my win10 on my evo 850 to my m2 and it worked as a boot drive. Same original copy that started from a AMD.

As for Visual Studio speed. Load project close to 15 seconds on both. Rebuild project close to 8 seconds on both. Seems like it's a little faster on the m2 on initial load. I'm testing loading over and over again.
When I did a speed test with user benchmark.com is says that my evo850 'ram cache drive detected' so it wouldn't measure my speed on that one. The speed on it seems way off too.
Here's a comparison on both from the clone OS
http://i.imgur.com/l0xZfhs.png

Seems like my speeds are good on the m2, so I configured it correctly. Like you said, not any speed difference like I thought there would be. Well unless I can make the m2 a ram cache drive.
I'm not that familiar with that, but does that saying there is some memory on my system that's a cache for that drive?

Lastly, my computer seems to be benchmarking really well and everything seems ok for visual studio which is what I care about. What is there for me to really gain by doing a clean install?

Best case: Continue working, no time lost.

Worst case: system dies (boot with my old 850 and do another migration, or make a backup). I save to the cloud anyway, all code is stored in cloud repository. If I really have to wipe it out later so what. What's the harm in me seeing how long I can go with this. It's going to save me a couple days in reinstalling everything.
 
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