Platform upgrade - best practises?

[Madbrood]

Well chaps and chapettes, I managed to snag a 5600X alongside a B550 motherboard and 16GB of 3200MHz Crucial DDR4 - just waiting on the board being delivered tomorrow. Any advice for best practises when upgrading, sinc every other component is staying the same? Or can I literally swap out the board, processor and memory and just get to it?

 

Any Windows 10 quirks I should be aware of?

 

Cheers!

 

[rice guru]

-no matter how tempting it may be, don't clone your drive just start off fresh.

- when you get into your bios make sure you set your xmp profile to the desired speed as the default xmp profile is almost always the slower profile. 

- when dealing with Ryzen I recommend updating your motherboard drivers.

-other than that update your gpu drivers but Im sure you already know that.

- other optional things to do that I do with all my personal  builds or builds  people are patient enough to let me do this to, is I stress test my system for at least 10 hours.

[Madbrood]

6 minutes ago, rice guru said:

-no matter how tempting it may be, don't clone your drive just start off fresh.

So what's the best way forward here - use one of Windows' utilities to basically give me a fresh install, given my system drive is staying the same? 

 

Re the other points, I had planned on those anyway - thanks! Just really unsure about what exactly to do with my system drive. 

[rice guru]

51 minutes ago, Madbrood said:

So what's the best way forward here - use one of Windows' utilities to basically give me a fresh install, given my system drive is staying the same? 

 

Re the other points, I had planned on those anyway - thanks! Just really unsure about what exactly to do with my system drive. 

Oh true lol sorry my mind has been on cloning today . Yeah a fresh install is probably the best way forward. As that is a massive platform change there is a chance it might get not even boot to windows. I would just back up all you need before the platform change. If simply moving your ssd causes issues then yes you can try using the Windows untilities.