- Apr 6, 2014
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I've decided to do a complete upgrade on my gaming rig in order to play games at the highest possible graphics settings I can afford. I've decided to go with an Intel i5 6600K chip set and a GTX 1070 GPU. I'm keeping my current storage, case and optical drive as well as my PSU. I'm probably going to install the CPU, motherboard and RAM first and I wonder if I need to reinstall my OS when I do this. Right now I'm using 2 hard drives, neither of which is an SSD, with my main drive (1TB)handling the OS and media and my second drive (4TB) running my gaming clients and games. I should also mention that my drives are not running in any RAID setup. I've put new CPU/mobo's into systems before but it was done as part of my job and it was always our policy to run Gdisk on all drives and reinstall all software and setup new RAID configurations on multi-drive systems.
If I just go ahead and replace the mobo/cpu and RAM without reinstalling the OS will I run into any problems with my software? And if I do need to reinstall my OS should I just go ahead and reformat both drives and put everything on the larger drive (ie OS and software) and keep the second, smaller drive, as backup/media storage? I did the current drive setup the way I did so that if I ever need to reinstall my OS I wouldn't have to go through the hassle of reinstalling all my Steam games, which is something I've had to deal with in the past and with an ever growing library something that can take several days to reinstall with my old wifi setup. I've since abandoned my wifi and hardwired my internet into my system so it probably wouldn't take as long to reinstall my Steam/GOG libraries.
If I just go ahead and replace the mobo/cpu and RAM without reinstalling the OS will I run into any problems with my software? And if I do need to reinstall my OS should I just go ahead and reformat both drives and put everything on the larger drive (ie OS and software) and keep the second, smaller drive, as backup/media storage? I did the current drive setup the way I did so that if I ever need to reinstall my OS I wouldn't have to go through the hassle of reinstalling all my Steam games, which is something I've had to deal with in the past and with an ever growing library something that can take several days to reinstall with my old wifi setup. I've since abandoned my wifi and hardwired my internet into my system so it probably wouldn't take as long to reinstall my Steam/GOG libraries.
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