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Yep, reinstall windows, all I got was just blue screens with old windows

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You should be fine just putting it in and going from there. Did you also get a new motherboard?

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Hi, I bought a new processor for my pc and I don't kow if I have to uninstall everything and start from the begining or I just have to put my new processor and eveything will work.

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What's your MOBO and what's the processor? Are you sure they're compatible? 

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are you going from amd to intel? or intel to intel or amd to amd 

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Nope, unless you are getting a new motherboard too.

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as long as the cpu is compatible with the socket you should be fine, about the only thing you may need to do is flash your bios 

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You should be fine just putting it in and going from there. Did you also get a new motherboard?

 

 

What's your MOBO and what's the processor? Are you sure they're compatible? 

 

 

Nope, unless you are getting a new motherboard too.

I'm changing my motherboard also, I had a pentium and now I have an i5 with a socket lga 1155

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I'm changing my motherboard also I had a pentium and now I have an i5 with a socket lga 1155

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