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Can Reinstalling Windows 10 Damage my Hardware

Bellji

Hi there so i have recently build a new pc 

i have a 3070ti and i9 10900k and 32gb ram

and i have installed windows a total of 3 times on the new pc

once on the day i built it 

and twice in the space of 2 hours 

 

i am very OCD about damaging my hardware and losing peformance and all that stuff 

So here are my questions

 

1. Can reinstalling windows too many times damage my hardware 

2. would my hardware have been damaged from installing windows 10 3 times after building it in the space of 3 days 

Hardware like my GPU, CPU, Power supply, motherbaord, ssd ect

3. is it safe to reinstall once more because i am feeling input lag in my games i play and i am reinstalling to attempt to fix it

 

Thanks. Bellji

 

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3 minutes ago, Bellji said:

1. Can reinstalling windows too many times damage my hardware 

no.

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2 minutes ago, Bellji said:

Hi there so i have recently build a new pc 

i have a 3070ti and i9 10900k and 32gb ram

and i have installed windows a total of 3 times on the new pc

once on the day i built it 

and twice in the space of 2 hours 

 

i am very OCD about damaging my hardware and losing peformance and all that stuff 

So here are my questions

 

1. Can reinstalling windows too many times damage my hardware 

2. would my hardware have been damaged from installing windows 10 3 times after building it in the space of 3 days 

Hardware like my GPU, CPU, Power supply, motherbaord, ssd ect

3. is it safe to reinstall once more because i am feeling input lag in my games i play and i am reinstalling to attempt to fix it

 

Thanks. Bellji

 

I won’t hurt anything… but this also isn’t likely going to help anything. Reinstalling windows within a matter of days won’t change anything. It takes a while for an OS to get borked, lots of programs being installed and uninstalled is what causes issues.

 

If your having issues, reformatting likely isn’t the solution.

 

Do you have vsync on in games? That is usually the cause of input lag. 

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1. No

2. No

3 Sure

 

But if after 3 times there is still a problem then well the issue is somewhere else.

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3 minutes ago, Bellji said:

1. Can reinstalling windows too many times damage my hardware 

It will wear down your SSD (if you boot on SSD) as you're writing to it.

4 minutes ago, Bellji said:

2. would my hardware have been damaged from installing windows 10 3 times after building it in the space of 3 days 

Hardware like my GPU, CPU, Power supply, motherbaord, ssd ect

No.

4 minutes ago, Bellji said:

3. is it safe to reinstall once more because i am feeling input lag in my games i play and i am reinstalling to attempt to fix it

It is safe, but it won't fix your problems.

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Yes, but really no.

The "damage" it could do, is cause wear on a SSD's NAND flash when writing the OS's data onto it. That's it. That's the extend of the damage it can do. Other than that, no, it cannot directly damage the hardware.

 

So to answer your questions in the same order
1- Yes, technically anyway (SSD only).
2- No, 3 times is not enough to make a significant impact on SSD lifetime, which can usually handle a couple hundred/thousand of TBs worth of writes, and it doesn't affect the rest of the hardware.
3- Yes, but probably not the root of your issues.

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And the "damage" in terms of wear that @TetraSky is referring to is EXTREMELY minuscule in the long term use of the hardware. You're talking about maybe 100GB of data being written across 3 installs. SSDs are generally rated for writes in the 50 to 100+ TB range for 250GB models. On a 250GB SSD for example you would need to fill it around 70% from 0 every day for an entire year nonstop to hit its TBW rating of around 70TB

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11 minutes ago, Bellji said:

Hi there so i have recently build a new pc 

i have a 3070ti and i9 10900k and 32gb ram

and i have installed windows a total of 3 times on the new pc

once on the day i built it 

and twice in the space of 2 hours 

 

i am very OCD about damaging my hardware and losing peformance and all that stuff 

So here are my questions

 

1. Can reinstalling windows too many times damage my hardware 

2. would my hardware have been damaged from installing windows 10 3 times after building it in the space of 3 days 

Hardware like my GPU, CPU, Power supply, motherbaord, ssd ect

3. is it safe to reinstall once more because i am feeling input lag in my games i play and i am reinstalling to attempt to fix it

 

Thanks. Bellji

 

1-3 are nothing more than your OCD running amok.  

 

1-2...  completely in your head, like how driving a car hurts it or writing hurts a pencil

 

3...  "feeling" input lag?  Or measured input lag?  Measure it, don't just feel it.  Your mind can play tricks, numbers don't lie.

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10 hours ago, LIGISTX said:

I won’t hurt anything… but this also isn’t likely going to help anything. Reinstalling windows within a matter of days won’t change anything. It takes a while for an OS to get borked, lots of programs being installed and uninstalled is what causes issues.

 

If your having issues, reformatting likely isn’t the solution.

 

Do you have vsync on in games? That is usually the cause of input lag. 

no i have all vsync turned off

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Thank You all for the help with this 🙂 i appreciate it very much

i was honestly worried i would have damaged my gpu or cpu or something but thank you all very much 

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