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.

 

[HazardO]

TBH windows 7 is probably worth upgrading too, I'd also recomend going 64bit so you can use more than 3G of RAM. I've used vista 32 and 64bit, and you really don't notice the difference until you run several apps at the same time and realise you're not using the swap file on the 64bit OS so it's faster (I have 6G of RAM though).

 

[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).

 

[Phage]

Why not get Vista 64 with the upgrade option now ? This will then do an in-situ upgrade when W7 is released.

 

[HazardO]

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?

 

[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.

 

[.walls]

IMHO - In place upgrades for the lose. if you're going to be installing a new OS, go for a clean install.

 

[jalapeno]

Yeah I know, just hoping ....

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

 

[Sultan of Ping]

IMHO - In place upgrades for the lose. if you're going to be installing a new OS, go for a clean install.

^^ What he said ^^