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So should I stick with legacy or go with UEFI?

UEFI, there is no reason to choose legacy unless you absolutely have to for whatever reason.

I just switched to this GA-970A-D3 from Gigabyte and it boots my old (well, the os that I had on my old motherboard and it's legacy) but it gives me a lot of BSODs. Most of them are Pagefault in Nonpaged area and I learned that it has something to do with my ram. The motherboard has 4 ram slots and I installed mine on the blue ones. Does it matter if they're installed on the blue ones or the white ones? Should I switch?

CPU=Intel i5 7600k @ 4.8GHz Motherboard = Asus Z170 Pro Gaming RAM = 2x 8GB Corsair Vengeance 3000 GPU = Gigabyte RTX 2060 WF Storage = 1TBGB HDD 7200 rpm + 200GB Kingstone SSD PSU = Corsair CX750 Display = Acer GN246HL Cooling = Cooler Master Cooling Masterliquid lite 120

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Did you fresh install windows at all?

I am going to. I wanna do Uefi but do I have to format the whole hdd to switch to uefi?

CPU=Intel i5 7600k @ 4.8GHz Motherboard = Asus Z170 Pro Gaming RAM = 2x 8GB Corsair Vengeance 3000 GPU = Gigabyte RTX 2060 WF Storage = 1TBGB HDD 7200 rpm + 200GB Kingstone SSD PSU = Corsair CX750 Display = Acer GN246HL Cooling = Cooler Master Cooling Masterliquid lite 120

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I am going to. I wanna do Uefi but do I have to format the whole hdd to switch to uefi?

You mean AHCI? There is a registry key that you can change to fix that. But you need to do a clean install anyway.

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You mean AHCI?

Yes? not sure. the motherboard has uefi and my old one didn't. Faster booting. 

CPU=Intel i5 7600k @ 4.8GHz Motherboard = Asus Z170 Pro Gaming RAM = 2x 8GB Corsair Vengeance 3000 GPU = Gigabyte RTX 2060 WF Storage = 1TBGB HDD 7200 rpm + 200GB Kingstone SSD PSU = Corsair CX750 Display = Acer GN246HL Cooling = Cooler Master Cooling Masterliquid lite 120

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Yes? not sure. the motherboard has uefi and my old one didn't. Faster booting. 

UEFI is just the more modern replacement for the old style BIOS

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UEFI is just the more modern replacement for the old style BIOS

So should I stick with legacy or go with UEFI?

CPU=Intel i5 7600k @ 4.8GHz Motherboard = Asus Z170 Pro Gaming RAM = 2x 8GB Corsair Vengeance 3000 GPU = Gigabyte RTX 2060 WF Storage = 1TBGB HDD 7200 rpm + 200GB Kingstone SSD PSU = Corsair CX750 Display = Acer GN246HL Cooling = Cooler Master Cooling Masterliquid lite 120

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So should I stick with legacy or go with UEFI?

UEFI, there is no reason to choose legacy unless you absolutely have to for whatever reason.

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UEFI, there is no reason to choose legacy unless you absolutely have to for whatever reason.

Gotcha! thanks :)

CPU=Intel i5 7600k @ 4.8GHz Motherboard = Asus Z170 Pro Gaming RAM = 2x 8GB Corsair Vengeance 3000 GPU = Gigabyte RTX 2060 WF Storage = 1TBGB HDD 7200 rpm + 200GB Kingstone SSD PSU = Corsair CX750 Display = Acer GN246HL Cooling = Cooler Master Cooling Masterliquid lite 120

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