Upgrading Motherboard and CPU

[JAD776]

Hi, I was looking into upgrading my motherboard (MSI 760GMA-P34-FX) and CPU (FX-8320) to an Intel CPU and motherboard that is compatible with VR. I have read that there is a lot of problems with changing the motherboard in regards to booting from an old hard drive (Windows 10). I read that the difference in drivers and such could prevent the pc from booting to windows. When I was researching this however, it seemed like the only people having problems had an OS Windows 7 and prior. So my question is, would I be able to upgrade my mobo and CPU without a problem of incompatibility with windows not being able to recognize the old mobo or just an incompatibility in general? Thank you very much for your help  Also, is there a need to upgrade? Would my 8320 run the oculus?

[Imakuni]

19 minutes ago, JAD776 said:

Hi, I was looking into upgrading my motherboard (MSI 760GMA-P34-FX) and CPU (FX-8320) to an Intel CPU and motherboard that is compatible with VR. I have read that there is a lot of problems with changing the motherboard in regards to booting from an old hard drive (Windows 10). I read that the difference in drivers and such could prevent the pc from booting to windows. When I was researching this however, it seemed like the only people having problems had an OS Windows 7 and prior. So my question is, would I be able to upgrade my mobo and CPU without a problem of incompatibility with windows not being able to recognize the old mobo or just an incompatibility in general? Thank you very much for your help  Also, is there a need to upgrade? Would my 8320 run the oculus?

Just a quick question, what's your GPU?

[JAD776]

MSI GTX 960 but later this summer (before I was going to order an Oculus) I was going to look into getting the 1070

[Imaginary Friend]

8 minutes ago, JAD776 said:

MSI GTX 960 but later this summer (before I was going to order an Oculus) I was going to look into getting the 1070

Im using gtx 970 and i5-4690k and the vr performance test said that im "ready" "The highest score" so i don't think you will need something higher than a gtx 970.

[JAD776]

I know but I was looking into upgrading the gpu later this year anyways and with the comparable price between the 970 and 1070, I thought what the heck

[Inimigor]

 

15 hours ago, Sans said:

Im using gtx 970 and i5-4690k and the vr performance test said that im "ready" "The highest score" so i don't think you will need something higher than a gtx 970.

The 1070 has SMP, so it should be better for VR than the 970 (It's tied to the Pascal architecture)

 

 

15 hours ago, JAD776 said:

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Windows 10 is A LOT better with swapping hardware completely, I had my notebook's HD go from Intel Core 2 Duo + G41 chipset to 1090T + AMD 890FX chipset to i5 3570 + H61 Chipset to i5 2450M + HM65 chipset.

If you have problems with that, you can boot into safe mode, unninstall all Chipset drivers and then swap the parts.

The main problem people have when doing that is going from IDE based controllers to AHCI based ones. AHCI formatted drives work on IDE, but not IDE on AHCI.

Edited May 19, 2016 by Inimigor
Fixing CPU model I typed wrong