Swapping Motherboards - Do I Need To Reinstall Windows?
UPDATE
Sorry for the long wait, the new mobo took a while in shipping.
So here's what I have to report:
After uninstalling the ASRock AB350 Pro4 drivers and utilities and installing the MSI X470 Gaming Plus drivers I witnessed nothing fishy. All of my devices worked perfectly fine. I was getting perfectly clear audio (perhaps even a bit louder, I think the sound system on the MSI board is a bit stronger), running games was super smooth, I could capture screen recordings and encode video and I'd describe the experience as identical to when I had the ASRock board in the system.
The only issue I faced was Windows Activation. As your license is tied to your motherboard, I had to reinstall Windows with a new license. I am aware that you can attempt to recover the license, but unfortunately I was unsuccessful.
But yeah, all in all I'd say that at least with my configuration everything worked really smoothly - swapping motherboards was perfectly fine.
Thanks everybody! <3
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