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CPU Upgrading for a rookie.

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Windows pretty much take care of the initial drivers, it’s as simple as carefully placing the cpu in the board and adding thermal paste/heatsink.

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I'm planning to change out my AMD x4 860k in favour of an Intel i5 4460 (Yes, i know it's old). I'm happy with physically installing a new motherboard and CPU.

I was just wondering if there are any additional steps to changing out a CPU such as driver installation that I need to be aware of. Thanks!

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2 minutes ago, TARS said:

Windows pretty much take care of the initial drivers, it’s as simple as carefully placing the cpu in the board and adding thermal paste/heatsinks.

They have to change motherboard so there may be an issue with the windows license. 

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4 minutes ago, blanco640 said:

I'm planning to change out my AMD x4 860k in favour of an Intel i5 4460 (Yes, i know it's old). I'm happy with physically installing a new motherboard and CPU.

I was just wondering if there are any additional steps to changing out a CPU such as driver installation that I need to be aware of. Thanks!

TBQH, I'd pull whatever data you need off of the drive then do a full wipe reinstall. new CPU, new board and new chipset is a pretty dramatic change, and it's likely to break things in Windows over long-term usage.

 

It's also highly likely that you'll lose your Windows license during this process. Before you do it, make sure that your license is connected to your Windows account. That should allow you to just select the old computer after installing Windows and transfer that license over, assuming this is 10.

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Just now, Brooksie359 said:

They have to change motherboard so ther may be an issue with the windows license. 

That may well create a hiccup, unless he has a retail copy.

 

Although he should have no issues with the install, just the activation.

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Just now, TARS said:

That may well create a hiccup, unless he has a retail copy.

 

Although he should have no issues with the install, just the activation.

Yeah he could get lucky like I'd did. The oem code worked just fine to reactivate my copy.

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23 minutes ago, TARS said:

Windows pretty much take care of the initial drivers, it’s as simple as carefully placing the cpu in the board and adding thermal paste/heatsink.

That is a pretty bad idea. OP should backup and reinstall to be sure.

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52 minutes ago, blanco640 said:

My windows key is linked to my account, though I wasn't planning on reinstalling my OS. Why is this so essential exactly? I'd rather not have to unless it's completely necessary.

You can have mixed results with out reinstalling the OS, often drivers can conflict with the old build and new.

 

I have seen it go both ways, it’s best to reinstall windows though... what you can attempt is just going ahead with the swap, and doing a refresh (assuming you are using a newer version of Windows and you are able to boot)

 

Backing up important information on your computer would be a wise choice though.

 

Here you will find the steps to refresh

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/17085/windows-8-restore-refresh-reset-pc

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