Upgrading from Athlon to Athlon II. Windows repair req'd?

[markusaurileus]

Hi,
If I upgrade my old Athlon 64 x2 +5000 to an Athlon II x4 630 on an AM2+/AM3 motherboard, is it likely that I'll have to do a repair on my win7 OS?

Thanks.

 

[hell_storm2004]

AFAIK, Change of CPU = New Installation of OS.

 

[markusaurileus]

damn, alright. let's see if someone can verify this...

 

[markusaurileus]

I'll try it out that way and report back when I'm done. , by the way, i have a small 2yo syringe of arctic silver paste, it doesnt go bad does it? I can just use that?

 

[MarkG]

AFAIK, Change of CPU = New Installation of OS.

Generally speaking, new motherboard = new installation, new CPU = no change unless you're going between single core and multi-core. XP, from what I remember, had single-core and muli-core versions of some files which it would automatically update if you changed CPU or enabled/disabled hyperthreading, newer versions of Windows may or may not.

Of course Windows 95/98 didn't even care if you switched motherboard, so that's been a step backwards in the last few years.

 

[markusaurileus]

Installation was a success.

Just replaced the old cpu with the new x4 635, my ASUS board recognized a new cpu and loaded default settings, then Windows installed something to recognize the cpu. Done, all is good. No win repair/reinstall required. Refreshed Windows Experience Index, and it all shows up correctly.

Thanks for the help!

 

[markusaurileus]

Best answer selected by MarkusAurileus.

 

[markusaurileus]

@malmental, sure, here they are.

Proc: 7.3
RAM: 7.3
Gfx: 6.9
Gaming gfx: 6.9
Primary HDD: 5.8

As expected?

 

[Mousemonkey]

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