Old hard drive with windows and games on a new motherboard with a new processor?

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JohnBritt

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Hi, I'm thinking about upgrading my current desktop configuration, specifically I'm thinking of buying new processor + motherboard. I would like, however to keep my current RAM, graphics and all other peripherals including my HDD.

Since I have 2TB hardrive with about 150+ pc video games on it installed, obviosly it would be a huge chore to get this installed again. I DO NOT want to do this.

Is it possible in ANY WAY to just load that HDD on a new motherboard with a new processor and without a need to reinstall windows and all those games and programs?
 
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worst case = it wont even boot

probable case = it will boot and the desktop will take about 10 mins to load, every program you use will be like you're running a pentium 2 with 50mb RAM

best case = most programs will appear to run OK, but at reduced performance, some games will run but with screen tearing/low fps/sound issues/random crashes.
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moonmoonmoonmoon

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You can do it, but is highly recommended to do an fresh install of windows when installing a new CPU+MoBo.

The problem is you will need to find and uninstall all the old drivers and install the new ones, because you don't want incompatibilities...
 
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it's doable, but even if it works you will take a performance hit. I tried it once and ended up with all sorts of driver issues. you will need to do a clean install of windows with fresh mboard drivers for the best result. CPU is a different story, you can just drop them in and they are good to go.
 
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I need to do this, but to install a fresh copy of Windows 7, I install using different whole system, and I could load it on new system.

That is why I said is possible, but like people already said the performance will be worst.
 
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worst case = it wont even boot

probable case = it will boot and the desktop will take about 10 mins to load, every program you use will be like you're running a pentium 2 with 50mb RAM

best case = most programs will appear to run OK, but at reduced performance, some games will run but with screen tearing/low fps/sound issues/random crashes.
 
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