Good morning,
I have had my custom light editing/gaming rig for about a year now, and exclude upgrading my Graphics card and chassis, nothing else has been changed. However currently I am doing a lot more work with Premiere and After effects, and would like a more powerful CPU, (The FX 8350) However my motherboard doesn't support it, as it is the MSI A-78-me35 which is using an Athlon x4 760k at the moment. I would like to just upgrade and plug in my hard-drive and just install mobo drivers, but I have been informed it is not that simple.
Do I need to reinstall windows? And would it hurt to try to boot up with the new mother board/cpu, without clean install and see if it works?
Also I have my CD copy of windows 8, but I have been using windows 10 so can I just use the product key from my windows 8 CD with a bootable flash drive iso of windows 10? Or do I need to install windows 8 and upgrade?
Thank you for all of the help.
I have had my custom light editing/gaming rig for about a year now, and exclude upgrading my Graphics card and chassis, nothing else has been changed. However currently I am doing a lot more work with Premiere and After effects, and would like a more powerful CPU, (The FX 8350) However my motherboard doesn't support it, as it is the MSI A-78-me35 which is using an Athlon x4 760k at the moment. I would like to just upgrade and plug in my hard-drive and just install mobo drivers, but I have been informed it is not that simple.
Do I need to reinstall windows? And would it hurt to try to boot up with the new mother board/cpu, without clean install and see if it works?
Also I have my CD copy of windows 8, but I have been using windows 10 so can I just use the product key from my windows 8 CD with a bootable flash drive iso of windows 10? Or do I need to install windows 8 and upgrade?
Thank you for all of the help.