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AldrenEnggo

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I went to the computer shop/hardware today where they sell CPUs and other components of a computer. They had no Ryzen stocks since the shop itself is a bit unsophisticated. But I can buy the Ryzen in lazada.com along with the AM4 motherboard with it to deliver it to my house. And I'm a novice when it comes to upgrading PC by myself as I usually let the computer technicians do it. I just wanna change my old-ass A4-6300 processor. So, after putting the CPU in the CPU socket and all those stuffs, do I have to do anything after that? Like installing my OS?
 
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You don't install BIOS. It resides on the motherboard itself in a chip. It is unlikely you would be able to swap the motherboard and processor and have Windows work from the previous installation without having to do something else. At the very least you would have to install all new drivers for the new hardware and then reactivate Windows. At the worst the system won't boot to Windows any more and you won't even be able to fix it from...
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You'll need new DDR4 ram as well.

You might need to. Win10 is better at handling changes like this compared to previous versions. Though even win7 in my testing could handle motherboard changes really well. XP and before won't handle it well at all. My usual advice is to try it and see. If it work, congrats. If it doesn't, make sure you have your install disks handy and be prepared to use them if need be.
 
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I have DDR3 4GB RAM(planning to upgrade it to 8GB), GTX 1050 Ti, and other parts already. I'm just trying to upgrade my processor so I wouldn't bottleneck my 1050 Ti. I have Windows 7 OS installed to my hard drive already and I'm using it right now. Do I still need to install OS system and BIOS?
 
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You cannot use DDR3 with Ryzen. You will need to get DDR4.
 
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You don't install BIOS. It resides on the motherboard itself in a chip. It is unlikely you would be able to swap the motherboard and processor and have Windows work from the previous installation without having to do something else. At the very least you would have to install all new drivers for the new hardware and then reactivate Windows. At the worst the system won't boot to Windows any more and you won't even be able to fix it from Windows.

So before embarking on a swap like this (it is essentially a completely new computer if you swap the motherboard and processor for a different type) you would need to be prepared to have to do a complete clean installation of Windows from a wiped hard drive.
 
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Additionally, Windows 7 does not support Ryzen processors. Though I haven't tried the combination myself, reports are that drivers are missing and USB 2.0 doesn't work among other things. In addition, I have experienced a similar issue with unsupported processors from Intel. Windows 7 will not install on the newest/fastest Intel i7's, and I've even had an i7-7700K system that we initially installed Windows 7 on last January, and this April it suddenly "deactivated" Windows 7 and the upshot was it had to be upgraded to Windows 10.
 
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