Intel CPU and MOBO to Ryzen

phenomet12 · Sep 22, 2017

I ordered a ryzen 5 1600x cpu and an msi x370 mobo yesterday which i will use to replace my current cpu and mobo. I was wondering what I would need to do before and after I replace these parts.

clutchc · Sep 22, 2017

It will depend on what the Intel system you had before is. I presume you mean you want to swap out the CPU/board from that previous build. Did the Intel system use DDR3? If so, you'll need new DDR4 RAM.

phenomet12 · Sep 22, 2017

clutchc :

Yeh, I didn't realise that before so I bought some ddr4 ram this morning.

clutchc · Sep 22, 2017

You'll probably have to do a clean install of Win. The try to re-activate it. Best to first do a disk image of what you have now, just in case. Do you have W7 now or W10?

phenomet12 · Sep 23, 2017

clutchc :

Windows 10. Would I need to reinstall it before or after? Thank you for your answer btw.

clutchc · Sep 23, 2017

After. Once you install the new board and CPU and RAM, you virtually have a new system. The old W10 installation on your HDD won't be setup for what it sees on the new system. You may get lucky and W10 will struggle to boot to the desktop loading new drivers as it sees the new system. But even if it does, the registry will be a mess and could lead to crashes later.

For best results, act as though you just built a brand new system, and install W10 from scratch after assembly is done. Depending on how you had W10 activated before, you may not have to do anything. It may activate itself automatically. If your old Intel platform was an OEM (Dell,HP, etc), you may have to manually re-activate with Microsoft.

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