Question about reintstalling Win10 on my overclocked (8-pack) system

Moog78

Moog78

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I bought the i5 6400/Z170 bundle last year from overclockers and have successfully been using it at 4.4 GHz with no issues for 12 months.

I'm about to swap my HDD with a SSD (I can't decide if SATA or PCIe is best?) and will need to reinstall Win10.

I know that the original instructions with this OC bundle stated that the operating system needed to be installed before flashing the BIOS and overclocking, so, my question is: will fitting a new SDD and installing a fresh version of windows give me problems? Do I need to roll back the BIOS and go back to default settings first?

Hope that makes sense
(I'm a PC novice so please use small words in any replies you post!)
 
If you buy a 2.5" SATA SSD, then you can probably get away with using macrium reflect to clone the existing drive to the SSD. That way you shouldn't have to re-install windows at all. I did this with my mum's laptop and cloned her 320GB HDD to a 480GB SSD with no problems whatsoever.
 
Can be bummer sometimes, but i always have a copy / backup of my win10 plus applications i always use. This being whatever the prob, the worst that can happen is just a normal win 10 install which takes what, mins, a cup of tea and a biscuit!

then you can use your system image with your rescue disk. I use to use other backup progs, but being that I hate having progs on my computer that i do not really need, i just use win10 backup, hasnt let me down and is so easy to use!
 
BIOS is stored on your motherboard, seperate from SSD/Windows , you are fine to re-install windows and it will not change your BIOS settings
 
Brizzles said:
BIOS is stored on your motherboard, seperate from SSD/Windows , you are fine to re-install windows and it will not change your BIOS settings
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that's what I thought but the original instructions on the overclckers forum said that the operating system needed to be installed before updating the BIOS etc.
 
Moog78 said:
that's what I thought but the original instructions on the overclckers forum said that the operating system needed to be installed before updating the BIOS etc.
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Yes, the OS might have needed to have been installed to update the BIOS, i don't know the exact details.

The BIOS is stored on a chip on the motherboard, totally apart from the OS
 
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