Upgrade NEWB question - apologies if dullard at work

[jalapeno]

I have an AMD Athlon X64 II 3800+ dual core system running XP SP3

I'd ideally like to rip and replace the mobo/cpu with a Phenom bundle I got from OC. In my journey from 8086 to multi-cores I've usually upgraded with a new OS & Software build.

No doubt I'll probably have to start afresh, but wondered if there is any chance of not doing this and just upgrading the hardware in-situ.

Any advice gratefully received.

Ta.

 

[jalapeno]

Thanks for the quick response, I probably will go to Win7, just wondered if I could hold off until it's released, without having to re-install XP and all the software (which is the real chore).

 

[jalapeno]

Windows 7 isn't far off, why don't you just wait before you upgrade, or has your current system come to the end of the road?

It had, but seems to have stabalised now ...

I think you're all saying don't do it - upgrade to Vista64/W7 - which was the cunning Plan eventually.

 

[jalapeno]

Yeah I know, just hoping ....

Not doing anything stoopid - backup all the data and start again ....