changing motherboards

[tomi832]

I heard, that when you change chipsets (change the motherboard and the new motherboard has a new chipset) than you need to delete Windows and reinstall it. is it correct?

[Augurian]

Nope, you don't.

But with large hardware changes you might have to reactivate it because it thinks that you've installed it on a different computer.

[tomi832]

1 minute ago, Augurian said:

Nope, you don't.

But with large hardware changes you might have to reactivate it because it thinks that you've installed it on a different computer.

 

oh...ok good to know.

IDK where I heard it but now I know that it's not correct. thanks

[BubblyCharizard]

27 minutes ago, tomi832 said:

IDK where I heard it but now I know that it's not correct. thanks

It did used to be a problem before the Win NT platform, when MS used a different method of initializing hardware, but since Win XP, I have very rarely seen the need for a fresh install

 

That said, you will most likely get better performance with a fresh install, just due to the lack of bloatware and other apps you have installed that take up space.

[tomi832]

2 hours ago, BubblyCharizard said:

It did used to be a problem before the Win NT platform, when MS used a different method of initializing hardware, but since Win XP, I have very rarely seen the need for a fresh install

 

That said, you will most likely get better performance with a fresh install, just due to the lack of bloatware and other apps you have installed that take up space.

 

better performance for the CPU? and in what? is it really necessary or it would be like 5% faster and not a big deal?