Motherboard Swaping

[kleisinger]

Hi there, I'm looking for some help with swapping out some parts from my bothers old rig into mine.

 

I am wanting to steal is motherboard and processor and throw it into my rig, keeping my hard drives, PS, GPU and everything. 

 

 

Is physically switching them out just as easy as removing my board, putting his in and plugging in all my stuff?

He told me I will need to get some drivers before switching them out? 

 

it's an Asus P8H67-M LE with an i7 2600k

 

But I'm also wanting to put my mobo and cpu into his old case with the rest of his stuff to give to a friend that mobo  

 

it's a Gigabyte GA-EX58-UD3R with an i7 920

 

 

any links to drivers or youtube how to type videos would be really appreciated 

[Clear17Mud]

Um you'll mostly need GPU drivers, and I'd be more afraid that your windows won't even work because it was installed on a different computer.

[2Bangz]

Swapping CPU's and motherboards or just one of them would require you to do a reinstall of the OS and get the drivers for the new board. Drivers for the motherboards can be found on Gigabyte's or ASUS's websites. After you switch the components you will have to do a reinstall of the OS and install the motherboard drivers from there on your good to go.

 

Here's were you can search for your drivers:

 

http://www.gigabyte.us/support-downloads/support-downloads.aspx

 

http://www.asus.com/us/support/

[kleisinger]

Swapping CPU's and motherboards or just one of them would require you to do a reinstall of the OS and get the drivers for the new board. Drivers for the motherboards can be found on Gigabyte's or ASUS's websites. After you switch the components you will have to do a reinstall of the OS and install the motherboard drivers from there on your good to go.

 

Here's were you can search for your drivers:

 

http://www.gigabyte.us/support-downloads/support-downloads.aspx

 

http://www.asus.com/us/support/

I guess that I'd have to swap, then reinstall and then get the drivers in that order then?

[2Bangz]

I guess that I'd have to swap, then reinstall and then get the drivers in that order then?

Yes. Once you reinstall your OS all the old drivers will be gone so once you boot into your OS you can install all the needed drivers.