Win 10 Intel to AMD migration?

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Overlag

Overlag

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Short and sweet really.

I know back in the old days that migrating from one CPU manufacture to another generally meant a full reinstall, but im just wondering how Windows 10 handles it? I know its lazy and for best results its probably best to reinstall, but i literally want to swap boards/CPU over and run like that until some NVME drives reduce in price.

Something else against me would be how Windows 10 sees licenses across systems, since my install is a free upgrade from Win7 is that going to cause me problems too?

Thanks all :)
 
The OS won't throw all its toys out of the pram and just blue screen all over the place as from windows 8 they became more forgiving of major hardware changed like motherboards and processors, and when the system is started with the new hardware installed it will instantly detect those changes before the OS is loaded and replace the required drivers.

The license is another matter as it would be tied to the hardware it was installed on since it was an upgrade, but there have been changes that allow for moving upgrades to different hardware if the motherboard fails (if the original was an OEM you might be able to get it activated again through this method but that is a big might and even then it could be as simple as using the original windows 7 product key, but I'm just guessing here).
 
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