CPU upgrade

[william tepfer]

i am thinking about upgrading from a Ryzen 5 5600x to an i5 13600k and was wondering if I would have to change any drivers and or get a new SSD or have to change anything else

[filpo]

7 minutes ago, william tepfer said:

i am thinking about upgrading from a Ryzen 5 5600x to an i5 13600k and was wondering if I would have to change any drivers and or get a new SSD or have to change anything else

You would have to do a clean windows install on your boot drive and download new bios and the chipset drivers of course. How to download a clean windows install is in the vid below 

 

[The Pizza Man]

5 minutes ago, filpo said:

You would have to do a clean windows install on your boot drive and download new bios and the chipset drivers of course. How to download a clean windows install is in the vid below 

 

Just following because I'm maybe thinking of jumping ship in the near future too... Also... This might be a REALLY silly question... Do you run a fresh install of Windows first and then put the new motherboard and CPU in, booting everything back up afterwards to then download the relevant chipset drivers?

[filpo]

1 minute ago, The Pizza Man said:

Just following because I'm maybe thinking of jumping ship in the near future too... Also... This might be a REALLY silly question... Do you run a fresh install of Windows first and then put the new motherboard and CPU in, booting everything back up afterwards to then download the relevant chipset drivers?

No you don't do the install first and dw, when i was a kind of intermediate builder i made that same mistake and had to first install the new mobo and cpu and whatever new stuff you have, then boot it back up, THEN install the clean windows MAKING SURE you backed everything up (doesn't need to include games as those are replaceable) then get into windows after the install and then download the drivers for everything 

[BlueChinchillaEatingDorito]

54 minutes ago, The Pizza Man said:

Just following because I'm maybe thinking of jumping ship in the near future too... Also... This might be a REALLY silly question... Do you run a fresh install of Windows first and then put the new motherboard and CPU in, booting everything back up afterwards to then download the relevant chipset drivers?

Do a fresh install of Windows afterwards. You'll hear some people say that their AMD install boots off their new Intel platform just fine or vice versa. It's really if you're lucky. Often if it even does boot, you'll be chasing gremlins for a while so it's just not worth it in my opinion. I keep my stuff organized enough that any files I need is on a secondary drive I can just plug back in after re-installing Windows. So the whole process only takes 1-2 hours to reinstall everything. That is versus hours on end trying to troubleshoot and ask around on forums.