- Jun 3, 2015
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With the recent price drop for ryzens and their respective boards I decided now would be a good time to get my foot in the door and upgrade to the AM4 era. I'll be swapping out my mobo, cpu, and ram but was curious about a few things before hand.
1. Can I reuse my other components that is GPU, HDDS/SSDS. I know I have to do a fresh install of windows (in the case an upgrade to 10) which should wipe the drive clean but will my new mobo detect my gpu before hand so I can even install windows let alone get into bios? It won't need drivers or something? I'm only asking because the ryzen I've picked (1700) doesn't have onboard video nor does the mobo.
2. I know I should download the latest drivers for my hardware from the manufacturer site beforehand but should I make a system restore before hand or after I install them?
3. Before tearing down my old computer I want to check for faulty hardware as they arrive (I have to order them in little bits atm even though they are being discounted) what should I look for? Bent pins? Discoloration?
4. My old cpu (fx 8350) was an eight core 4.0ghz but my new one is an eight core 3.0ghz (ryzen 1700). I was told it was stronger though despite the ghz difference. Will this still be true even if I don't overclock? As it is now I can run almost everything at max settings while staying at moderate temps (48 C max is what I've seen with a hyper evo 212, but I plan to use the stock cooler from the ryzen for now).
To clarify I am switching from:
FX 8350
MSI 970 GAMING
DDR 3 1600MHZ(32 gig 4x8) 244PIN
GEFORCE GTX 1080 (EVGA)
COOLERMASTER 850W gold PSU
some asus CD drive
cooler master haf 912 case
To:
RYZEN 1700 (not X have no interest in overclocking)
Asus Rog strix x 370-f gaming (Been an MSI user for a long time but wanted to give this a try)
DDR4 3200MHz (16 gig 2x8)
Same gpu
same PSU
Same some asus cd drive
same case
1. Can I reuse my other components that is GPU, HDDS/SSDS. I know I have to do a fresh install of windows (in the case an upgrade to 10) which should wipe the drive clean but will my new mobo detect my gpu before hand so I can even install windows let alone get into bios? It won't need drivers or something? I'm only asking because the ryzen I've picked (1700) doesn't have onboard video nor does the mobo.
2. I know I should download the latest drivers for my hardware from the manufacturer site beforehand but should I make a system restore before hand or after I install them?
3. Before tearing down my old computer I want to check for faulty hardware as they arrive (I have to order them in little bits atm even though they are being discounted) what should I look for? Bent pins? Discoloration?
4. My old cpu (fx 8350) was an eight core 4.0ghz but my new one is an eight core 3.0ghz (ryzen 1700). I was told it was stronger though despite the ghz difference. Will this still be true even if I don't overclock? As it is now I can run almost everything at max settings while staying at moderate temps (48 C max is what I've seen with a hyper evo 212, but I plan to use the stock cooler from the ryzen for now).
To clarify I am switching from:
FX 8350
MSI 970 GAMING
DDR 3 1600MHZ(32 gig 4x8) 244PIN
GEFORCE GTX 1080 (EVGA)
COOLERMASTER 850W gold PSU
some asus CD drive
cooler master haf 912 case
To:
RYZEN 1700 (not X have no interest in overclocking)
Asus Rog strix x 370-f gaming (Been an MSI user for a long time but wanted to give this a try)
DDR4 3200MHz (16 gig 2x8)
Same gpu
same PSU
Same some asus cd drive
same case
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