cpu upgrade reinstal windows?

[niko]

hi there sorry if this has been asked before or its posted in the wrong place, i am upgradeing from a 3500 winne core to a fx-55 san deiago(due to arrive tomorrow) and am trying to find out if i need to reinstall windows(xp home).iv'e seen on various web pages that you need to do it if you change core type to unlock new features. can anyone conferm and elabarate for me thanks in advance

 

[niko]

no, not at all. I went from Venice core A64 3000+ to SanDiego cored Opteron 144 without a reinstall of windows.

Mul

chears for reply ,so you can do this without loseing out at all?

 

[niko]

great to have so many replys thanks!! i read on the amd forum that if you dont reinstall you wont get any new instruction sets as windows only picks up on them when installing is this correct ?

 

[niko]

hi there just to say thanks to everyone who replyed ,fx installed and running! had a couple of problens but dskck/r helped ,and had to play with memory timings