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Hey folks so just got an Email to confirm my 5800X is being shipped I already have my Motherboard and NVME drive which I will be performing a fresh Windows install on.

I'm asking due to my current NVME drive which I will be using in the second slot on my new Board will I need to reinstall all my programs and games on my new drive to work with the new Cpu or will they run fine on my current drive?
 
Unless I am reading it wrong, you are installing the 5800x into a new motherboard with a new NVME drive?

Then put your current NVME in the second slot but make sure you are booting from the new one. Then when in windows just format the old one so you can use it to install games etc.

I would always say do a fresh install of windows etc on the new drive, then install games on the secondary one etc. You wont want the secondary drive having windows installs as well as games etc.
 
Do you have windows and games on the second drive? if so, then yes I would format the drive and do it all fresh. Technically no though, you don't need to. You may just run into weird issues and bugs.
 
I always install games to a separate drive anyway. They're remarkably resilient if you move them around.

I'd suggest install Windows on your new drive. Add the old drive and temporarily copy your games to the new drive. Then reformat the old drive and copy your games back.

Install Steam, Origin, Uplay on your Windows drive, then it's just a case of pointing them at the files installed on the other drive. The only tricky one is Epic, but it's doable.
 
If your games are in steam - go in to the options and create a new games folder - then right click on the game and choose to move it over to the other location. Would save hours redownloading games (especially some of the 100Gb + games now) depending on what you have (works for other launchers too just would need to google how to move them).
 
If your games are in steam - go in to the options and create a new games folder - then right click on the game and choose to move it over to the other location. Would save hours redownloading games (especially some of the 100Gb + games now) depending on what you have (works for other launchers too just would need to google how to move them).

this is good advice for games. Also you can use ninite to automate installing popular mainstream programs
 
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