I have recently bought a prebuilt cpu from bestbuy for gaming/streaming. Not 100% happy with the guts of the cpu (yeah i know! i should have just built my own from scratch). After a few posts on this site and doing some searching i think i have landed on what i want to do, but i have some questions.
The current set up i have...
CPU - i7-9700F @ 3.00GHz
MOBO - Gigabyte B365M DS3H
GPU - RTX 2070 Super
RAM - Corsair Vengeance RGB PRO 32GB running @ 2133MHz (cant change it due to the motherboard limitations in the BIOS)
HDD - 1 TB
The changes i am going to make
CPU - Ryzen 7 3700x @ 4.4Ghz
MOBO - Gigabyte x570 Aorus Elite
GPU - RTX 2070 Super
RAM - Corsair Vengeance RGB PRO 32GB
HDD - 1 TB
SSD - Samsung 970 EVO 1 TB
CPU Cooling - Noctua NH-D15
I've watched (and have took apart and rebuilt cpus in the past) but i've never transferred HDDs or anything from one MOBO to another, my concern is after i move everything over will windows and all that stuff still be there? My main concern would be making sure when all the hardware and stuff was all set up and ready to go and it has a successful post, i would just be able to boot it up and it would be ready to go basically. Don't want to worry about buying Windows or anything like that..
What would be the best route for making the switch?