- Nov 24, 2015
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Hi, been looking and researching but still no definite answer...
My old board and chip died and I went down the route of new kit...luckily Intel replaced the chip which I sold and paid towards new kit...
So, I booted my 250Gb Samsung 850 SSD with win 8.1 onto new kit...6600k, MSI A170 m5 gaming board, 8Gb DDR4...(all other internal drives and GPU removed...)
All went fine and restarted after I installed new drivers etc...when working and updated I then made an image of the install, took out SSD and put in new 950 Pro pci card...bios saw this drive, selected as boot, installed from image. All good. Then upgraded to Win 10...still all good...but it's slow!
From power press to desktop is about 90 seconds...most of this seems to be the bios and boot. I would like to point out the boot is set to legacy...as win 7 was first, then upgrade to 8 then 10. Some people say need to install Win 10 as UEFI with the 950 to use as boot drive...
Once booted all seems OK and I am happy with the fact everything is there as it was before and the process seemed so simple...so should I be happy and continue? Win 10 is there, SSD is recognised as boot and computer works! Have I missed anything and not using any benefits from fresh install? Had issues with a few computers with UEFI and security and happy with the fact I look after my computer and this is mainly used for games and movies and dont need the 4tb boot etc...surfing and other stuff is done on my surface or old pc.
My old board and chip died and I went down the route of new kit...luckily Intel replaced the chip which I sold and paid towards new kit...
So, I booted my 250Gb Samsung 850 SSD with win 8.1 onto new kit...6600k, MSI A170 m5 gaming board, 8Gb DDR4...(all other internal drives and GPU removed...)
All went fine and restarted after I installed new drivers etc...when working and updated I then made an image of the install, took out SSD and put in new 950 Pro pci card...bios saw this drive, selected as boot, installed from image. All good. Then upgraded to Win 10...still all good...but it's slow!
From power press to desktop is about 90 seconds...most of this seems to be the bios and boot. I would like to point out the boot is set to legacy...as win 7 was first, then upgrade to 8 then 10. Some people say need to install Win 10 as UEFI with the 950 to use as boot drive...
Once booted all seems OK and I am happy with the fact everything is there as it was before and the process seemed so simple...so should I be happy and continue? Win 10 is there, SSD is recognised as boot and computer works! Have I missed anything and not using any benefits from fresh install? Had issues with a few computers with UEFI and security and happy with the fact I look after my computer and this is mainly used for games and movies and dont need the 4tb boot etc...surfing and other stuff is done on my surface or old pc.
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