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Im giving my nephew my q6600 now I've upgraded to a 3570k. I was wondering if it's possible to install it in his pc without having to reinstall windows?
He currently has an old amd dual core chip and windows 7.
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probably will not boot but it might if you are lucky..

a fresh install is always best makes everyhing run better (for a while)

not sure if there is a sysprep for w7 where windows expects to boot on different hardware..
 
you can do it, you just have to uninstall some key devices from device manager. IDE/SATA controllers, motherboard chipsets and audio are probably the only ones you need to do.

If it's windows vista or above, it'll probably just work. I plugged a HDD that had been in a core 2 duo laptop into a pentium 4 desktop and it booted into vista first time.
 
The OS will boot fine, Once in windows you will get a number of driver conflicts. To keep all settings and files installed on the OS without installing windows again. Run a oobe sysprep this can be found in the c:\windows\system32\sysprep. After running sysprep make sure computer is switched off and replace the motherboard and CPU. Then when you switch the computer you will be greeted with windows setup.
 
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