Changing PC's

[Kittke]

Dear LTT forum users,

 

 

I recently got my hands on a new PC that i got from my late uncle.

The machine is better equiped then mine with an X99 Chipset instead of a X97.

My current machine holds a i7 4790K with a single GTX 780ti inside of it and 16 GB of ram all sitting on a Maximus VII hero board. (Windows 10)

The other PC has 2 GTX 980's also 16GB of ram and is sitting on a Asus X99-A motherboard , i forgot what CPU it was exactly running but it was a pretty good one  . (Windows 8.1)

 

Now i'm having trouble and i'm a bit worried to change all the parts all of a sudden , like first of all i don't want to lose all my data , second of all i preferably wouldn't want to damage any parts of my computer.

 

I searched a bit on the internet but didn't exactly know what to search for so i came here , sorry if this topic already exists like i sad i couldn't find anything.

 

If somebody could explain me what to do , if it's even smart to start using the other pc i would be incredibly gratful.

 

 

I would like to thank you already.

 

sorry if my english isn't to good.

[Stevoisboss]

You can simply put the drive in the other machine and expect it to work fine with all your data except you might have to reactivate windows. 

[Jurrunio]

Does the newer PC come with Activated Windows? If yes then it's easier to just copy stuff over. If it doesnt then just plug in your old hard drives into the newer one. Windows will take a bit of time to load, then ask you to activate it. Give it a key or just bear with the watermark. That watermark seems to be the only annoyance MS gives to unactivated Windows 10