Anyone successfully installed a new motherboard and CPU without reinstalling Windows?

[Richdog]

Hi all. historically I have always followed popular wisdom and 'best practise' and performed a clean install of Windows when changing mobo and CPU.

However I am curious... has anyone here successfully upgraded without reinstalling Windows eg: just uninstalling the motherboard drivers, installing the new hardware and then rebooting?

I will be switching from X670 to X870 soon and was thinking about trying it as a lazy solution to avoid re-installing all my stuff.

 

[Richdog]

Thanks everyone that gives me some reassurance! Anyway I will just try it and see what happens, worst comes to worst i can do the reinstall.

I wouldn't even bother uninstalling any drivers - they both use the same chipset package. Only thing worth having to hand is the driver for your network card (but unless it's a slightly more obscure 2.5Gb or whatever then even that's probably unnecessary).


My current work PC install has moved from Intel 7xxx to Ryzen 4xxx and currently on Intel 14xxx with no reinstall

Thanks for the tips. The mobo im installing has a 5GB ethernet port, but both mobos are MSI so it should be fine.

Interesting that you wouldn't uninstall the mobo drivers... I assume it would be good to install the latest AMD chipset drivers in advance though as mine are likely a bit old now.