General question for my new upgrades

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Hi All,

Hope everyones having a decent week.

Recently bought the below bundle:

Intel Core i7-8700K 3.7GHz (Coffee Lake) - OC to 4.7GHz
Team Group Vulcan T-Force 8GB
Gigabyte Z370 AORUS Ultra Gaming Intel Z370
OcUK Tech Labs Asetek 570LC 120mm High Performance Liquid CPU Cooler - 115X

I had a couple general questions before I plop in the new kit to replace my current equipment:

1) I'm currently running windows 10 - am I ok to swap out everything in one go? (motherboard, ram, cpu). I'm keeping my SSD and graphics card. Do you guys recommend a clean install of windows or not?

2) I'm not really sure how well the Asetek 570LC cooler holds up, i've read some reviews but they are very dated. Does anyone know if the cooler will be ok with the OC chip?
 
Windows 10 will generally boot and run fine on a straight swap providing your using the same UEFI/Legacy boot mode on the new board. It will however require reactivation and with a full MB/RAM/CPU change there is a good chance you wont be able to reactivate the digital licence with the same product key. That said, Win 10 does offer an unlimited grace period where it will display a "Activate Windows" watermark on your desktop. A clean install would be best practice but if your OS install is reasonably fresh there is no harm in giving it a whirl and doing a straight swap. I've done it several times with 10 to no ill effect.
 
I usually do a fresh install when changing platform. Gets rid of any old drivers etc associated with the old hardware.

The ocuk aio's are pretty good tbf, I've had a 240mm for ages that I used for binning chips. See how the 120mm goes and take it from there!
 
Most of the Intel. Chip set/NIC Realtek etc generic on board device drivers are part of the Win 10 driver cache. They are there, clean install or not. Only if windows detects the physical hardware on boot will it load the required device drivers. Generally speaking. Old chip set drivers that are not loaded would bear no ill effect on performance of the machine. Untidy, a bit perhaps but if the OP is limited for time and a clean install would be a royal pain. it's a perfectly viable option. Inbuilt driver support has come a long long way since the days of 98 or XP.
 
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