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Swapping components over.

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So I currently have a system that has a 1600X, with 16Gigs of ram and an old B350F board in it. I have seen people just use random SSD/HDD as there boot drive when that swap over from PC to PC. So I guess my question is, Can I use my SSD that currently has windows 10 on it, and swap it over to a new Motherboard, CPU and ram combo, for example over to say a R5 3600 with it's respective chipset and memory?

 

Note: I'm guessing I'll have to uninstall things like chipset drivers rights?

 

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Windows 10 is pretty good at sorting things out. I have seen posts suggesting success simply plugging in the old drive and letting Windows sort it out. Personally I think a motherboard/cpu change is a great time to rebuild the system drive. I like to uninstall, wipe the old drive and reinstall everything.

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Windows is pretty flexible these days.  You don't really need to uninstall anything.  Honestly the biggest headache will probably be re-activating Windows 10.  I will support the commenter above and say it's usually just a better idea to do a clean install on a new build, especially if you are changing from AMD to Intel or vise-versa.  Backup your steam library and important docs and go from there.

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