Performance being lost?

[Draxexo]

I recently upgraded to an r7 2700, with 8gb 3000mhz ram, and a GTX 970. I used to have an i5 4460 with 16gb ram and a GTX 960.

Now I'm wondering, since I didn't reinstall Windows, or ddu any drivers, am I at risk of worse performance or instability? I haven't noticed anything but then again, I don't know what to look out for.

 

Should I reinstall Windows? Or will I be fine

[Guest]

If it's up and running, it's fine.

You could remove the Intel drivers as you no longer need them. 

The Gpu drivers would be the same for both cards 441.xx yes?

 

You would have compared your old system by running benchmarks and recording the figures to compare to your new build. But no worries, you gained performance, that I am sure of.

[Draxexo]

3 minutes ago, ShrimpBrime said:

If it's up and running, it's fine.

You could remove the Intel drivers as you no longer need them. 

The Gpu drivers would be the same for both cards 441.xx yes?

 

You would have compared your old system by running benchmarks and recording the figures to compare to your new build. But no worries, you gained performance, that I am sure of.

Yeah, it's up and running, GPU drivers are 441.xx, didn't do any benchmarks, or atleast I forgot to, the only reason I thought of this is because most tech you tubers say stuff about reinstalling when upgrading

[Guest]

Windows 10 hot swaps pretty well. I wouldn't worry about it, have done it several times myself with OS as far back as W7 and XP. Back then, chipset drivers would need to be removed for sure, or else blue screen city.

Nope, you're good to go.

[Mira Yurizaki]

9 minutes ago, Draxexo said:

I recently upgraded to an r7 2700, with 8gb 3000mhz ram, and a GTX 970. I used to have an i5 4460 with 16gb ram and a GTX 960.

Now I'm wondering, since I didn't reinstall Windows, or ddu any drivers, am I at risk of worse performance or instability? I haven't noticed anything but then again, I don't know what to look out for.

Did you swap the drives and booted from the original? Because this is an interesting case against the idea of "you should always reinstall windows" that everyone keeps spitting out.

 

As long as you're getting the performance that's expected for the setup, then it should be fine.

[Draxexo]

1 minute ago, ShrimpBrime said:

Windows 10 hot swaps pretty well. I wouldn't worry about it, have done it several times myself with OS as far back as W7 and XP. Back then, chipset drivers would need to be removed for sure, or else blue screen city.

Nope, you're good to go.

Okay, thanks for your reassurance

[Draxexo]

Just now, Mira Yurizaki said:

Did you swap the drives and booted from the original? Because this is an interesting case against the idea of "you should always reinstall windows" that everyone keeps spitting out.

 

As long as you're getting the performance that's expected for the setup, then it should be fine.

I don't know what you mean by swap, but I used the ones from my old build, since they were perfectly fine. 

[Mira Yurizaki]

Just now, Draxexo said:

I don't know what you mean by swap, but I used the ones from my old build, since they were perfectly fine. 

That's what I meant. You took the storage drive from the previous build and booted into your new build with it.

[Mister Woof]

Only thing to add since seems the others covered it - you should manually OC your 2700 to maybe 3.7-3.8ghz if using the OEM cooler (4.0 if good aftermarket one) because non-x chips have terrible all-core (where you will be at most of the time) boost.

[Draxexo]

Just now, Mira Yurizaki said:

That's what I meant. You took the storage drive from the previous build and booted into your new build with it.

Yep, that's what I did, without reinstalling anything

[Draxexo]

1 minute ago, Mister Woof said:

Only thing to add since seems the others covered it - you should manually OC your 2700 to maybe 3.7-3.8ghz if using the OEM cooler (4.0 if good aftermarket one) because non-x chips have terrible all-core (where you will be at most of the time) boost.

I pushed it to 3.9 and it seems fine on stock

[Mira Yurizaki]

1 minute ago, Draxexo said:

Yep, that's what I did, without reinstalling anything

I'd like to know how things work out after a few months of use.

[Draxexo]

Just now, Mira Yurizaki said:

I'd like to know how things work out after a few months of use.

It's been about a month or two, all I've noticed is considerably higher room temperatures, other than that everything is fine, pretty sure my ram is holding me back though (I like having lots of things open) 

[Guest]

Ryzen 2000 series sweet spot between 3200mhz and 3600mhz memory frequency.