I really didn't want to have to re-install Windows 11 again - I'd only done it maybe 3 months previous, but this week I bought a new CPU on a whim, which meant new board/RAM.
So I went from AM4 -> AM5 and from Asus to MSI manufacturer wise. Removed as much of the Asus stuff as I could, software drivers etc. Uninstalled a bunch of other drivers from device manager. Shut down and swapped everything over. Have to say, so far so good. Benched it for 8 hours and have played a bunch of games for several hours at a time. No crashes, reboots or anything really. Just business as usual.
I've always done a re-install, never even bothered trying otherwise. Are we still over cautious about this or have I just been lucky?
So I went from AM4 -> AM5 and from Asus to MSI manufacturer wise. Removed as much of the Asus stuff as I could, software drivers etc. Uninstalled a bunch of other drivers from device manager. Shut down and swapped everything over. Have to say, so far so good. Benched it for 8 hours and have played a bunch of games for several hours at a time. No crashes, reboots or anything really. Just business as usual.
I've always done a re-install, never even bothered trying otherwise. Are we still over cautious about this or have I just been lucky?