PC Performance low after upgrade

Patberts19 · 3 Jan 2018 at 12:36

Hey guys, I upgraded pretty much my entire build, except for my SSD. I have Ryzen 5 1600, ASUS B350 - PLUS motherboard, GTX 1070 and 8GB of DDR4-3000MHz RAM.

Now on the first day when I put the pc together it was working fine but last night it was working super slow so I went into BIOS and tried to increase my cpu multiplier from x35 to x36, changing my CPU clock from 3500 to 3600 MHz, didn't do much.

I had my old windows 10 left on the SSD, it did some sort of automatic repair or reset and worked well once I had installed it, mind you I'm not connected to the internet yet as I have just moved so haven't been able to get the latest drivers. Do you guys think that I need a fresh install of windows or is something else the problem?

CapitalOne · 3 Jan 2018 at 12:45

Yes to the clean install - new motherboard -> new chipset -> new GPU -> new drivers.

You may need a new key though, or to contact Microsoft. It's probably too late but I am sure there is a feature to "free" your licence from the motherboard and reassign it to a new one however you need to do this before changing it I would think.

orbitalwalsh · 3 Jan 2018 at 12:51

i just called them up and stated new mobo under RMA

Hagar · 3 Jan 2018 at 12:52

Before you do the install, login using a Microsoft account. Then logout.

Reinstall windows with the same account.

You can always revert to a local account login after it is all setup. The Microsoft account will capture the original serial number.

Patberts19 · 3 Jan 2018 at 12:53

CapitalOne said:
Yes to the clean install - new motherboard -> new chipset -> new GPU -> new drivers.

You may need a new key though, or to contact Microsoft. It's probably too late but I am sure there is a feature to "free" your licence from the motherboard and reassign it to a new one however you need to do this before changing it I would think.

Windows 10 has a 'Refresh' and 'Reset' features, could I use one of these options as they seem to remove pretty much everything on my PC?

CapitalOne · 3 Jan 2018 at 12:55

nkata said:
Before you do the install, login using a Microsoft account. Then logout.

Reinstall windows with the same account.

You can always revert to a local account login after it is all setup. The Microsoft account will capture the original serial number.

That's it.

Do this.

I would do a clean install, it includes the latest updates and really I'd recommend doing that every 6-9 months anyway.