Clean install OS or nah?

[patdx21]

I'm planning to change my motherboard and CPU before the end of the year. Should I clean install my OS or its okay to leave it like that? Thanks. 

[SpookyCitrus]

1 minute ago, patdx21 said:

I'm planning to change my motherboard and CPU before the end of the year. Should I clean install my OS or its okay to leave it like that? Thanks. 

Definitely, it is always recommended when doing an upgrade of both CPU and motherboard, or major components to do a fresh install. Driver conflicts are very very common if you do not.

[digitaldoughnut]

2 minutes ago, patdx21 said:

I'm planning to change my motherboard and CPU before the end of the year. Should I clean install my OS or its okay to leave it like that? Thanks. 

its always a good idea to do a fresh install every so often although your pc should work fine. note that you may need to re activate windows depending on how it has been licensed to you.

[LogicWeasel]

28 minutes ago, patdx21 said:

change my motherboard and CPU

from what to what?  If it's not that ancient and you're already on windows 10, likely will be just fine.  Backup the important stuff anyway however.  Always do that.

[patdx21]

5 minutes ago, LogicWeasel said:

from what to what?  If it's not that ancient and you're already on windows 10, likely will be just fine.  Backup the important stuff anyway however.  Always do that.

MSI Nightelf & i5 6500 to MSI Tomahawk Max & Ryzen 5 3600, yep im in windows 10

[LogicWeasel]

3 minutes ago, patdx21 said:

MSI Nightelf & i5 6500 to MSI Tomahawk Max & Ryzen 5 3600, yep im in windows 10

If there's almost nothing on your OS drive/partition I would reload just since it's Intel to AMD chipset.  If it'd be a pain to reformat you can still likely get away with it as win10 is very forgiving about that stuff.  It should re-detect the chipset and switch over to all AMD.  Also don't forget to install the AMD chipset drivers as that can help quite a bit (and ofc update bios).