Bottleneck?

[DoctorHamm]

Just now, Od1sseas said:

Oh. That's the problem. You need to make a clean install of Windows. This is always recommended when you upgrade your hardware (Different mobo/cpu)

Oh how do I proceed, and can I do this without having to reinstall the games I have. If there isn't an option I'll be forced but I'm hoping.

[Od1sseas]

Just now, DoctorHamm said:

Oh how do I proceed, and can I do this without having to reinstall the games I have. If there isn't an option I'll be forced but I'm hoping.

Put them on your Hard Drive and install Windows on the SSD (Wipe everything)

[samcool55]

1 minute ago, DoctorHamm said:

Oh how do I proceed, and can I do this without having to reinstall the games I have. If there isn't an option I'll be forced but I'm hoping.

That depends, if your games are not on the same drive where your windows is installed, you are probably fine.

If the games however are installed on the same drive as your OS, they are gone.

Easy way to know, the OS is usually on your C : drive, if your games are on another drive, it's fine.

[DoctorHamm]

1 minute ago, Od1sseas said:

Put them on your Hard Drive and install Windows on the SSD (Wipe everything)

Aw dang I don't have a second copy of windows or a second hdd or ssd

[Od1sseas]

1 minute ago, samcool55 said:

That depends, if your games are not on the same drive where your windows is installed, you are probably fine.

If the games however are installed on the same drive as your OS, they are gone.

Easy way to know, the OS is usually on your C : drive, if your games are on another drive, it's fine.

You can just move the folder to an other drive There are not gone lol

Just make sure to select the currect path of the games in Origin/Steam/Uplay etc and they will be recognised automatically

[DoctorHamm]

1 minute ago, samcool55 said:

That depends, if your games are not on the same drive where your windows is installed, you are probably fine.

If the games however are installed on the same drive as your OS, they are gone.

Easy way to know, the OS is usually on your C : drive, if your games are on another drive, it's fine.

Welp it seems my problem may have been solved but I'll only know after I go through, I'll keep this forum updated as I'll probably wait until I can afford a new HDD or until I have a second copy of windows

[Od1sseas]

1 minute ago, DoctorHamm said:

Aw dang I don't have a second copy of windows or a second hdd or ssd

Just download Windows from the official Microsoft website. It's super easy. They have a tool that makes the most stuff itself including the bootable USB

 

Unfortunately you have to download your games again

Do you have a fast internet connection at least?

[DoctorHamm]

Just now, Od1sseas said:

Just download Windows from the official Microsoft website. It's super easy. They have a tool that makes the most stuff itself including the bootable USB

 

Unfortunately you have to download your games again

Do you have a fast internet connection at least?

I have a decent connection so I should be ok hopefully, just a few pain staking hours later haha. 

[DoctorHamm]

3 minutes ago, Od1sseas said:

Just download Windows from the official Microsoft website. It's super easy. They have a tool that makes the most stuff itself including the bootable USB

 

Unfortunately you have to download your games again

Do you have a fast internet connection at least?

So I can go to the official website and reinstall windows to my HDD from there? I found something on there website never mind me.

[Od1sseas]

Just now, DoctorHamm said:

So I can go to the official website and reinstall windows to my HDD from there?

Yes

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-download/windows10

[DoctorHamm]

1 minute ago, Od1sseas said:

Yes

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-download/windows10

I don't exactly have a licnense since I switched hardware. It tells me that I need to activate windows. The situation is that before I changed parts my uncle deleted everything off and did a clean install off windows, then when i changed out parts the message appeared.

[DoctorHamm]

4 minutes ago, Od1sseas said:

Yes

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-download/windows10

https://support.microsoft.com/en-ca/help/4026528/windows-reset-or-reinstall-windows-10

I found this on there website.

[Od1sseas]

Just now, DoctorHamm said:

I don't exactly have a licnense since I switched hardware. It tells me that I need to activate windows. The situation is that before I changed parts my uncle deleted everything off and did a clean install off windows, then when i changed out parts the message appeared.

You don't need a license. Windows is free.

But you can always buy some super cheap keys at Ebay/AllKeyShop (~5$)

[Od1sseas]

1 minute ago, DoctorHamm said:

https://support.microsoft.com/en-ca/help/4026528/windows-reset-or-reinstall-windows-10

I found this on there website.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bkafkI32Cs0

[DoctorHamm]

Thanks a million @Od1sseas and @samcool55 for all the help, once I get a hold of a usb flash drive I'll post to this thread with results. results will probably be posted within the next 4 days.

[DoctorHamm]

@Od1sseas @samcool55 Idk why but for some reason I had doubt, but it worked beautifully. For not too long before I was looking up my cpu and seeing people say it was bad for gaming and was only really useful for doing stuff with 3d animation programs and I was shook. Thank you both for helping this pc main wanna be get his setup up and ready. All I need now is some money for a full copy of windows 10 lol.