First ever cpu upgrade

[lior1111]

Hello. 

Today i got all the parts i need for my cpu upgrade from 4790 to 8700.

Got my mobo, ram, cooling and ofc the cpu itself. 

Its the first time ever im soing this kind of upgrade and im building it myself because i find it really fun. 

My question is, do i need to know anything super important before i start building? Because for example when i switched from an amd card to an nvidia card i didnt know about DDU until a friend told me and saved my ass. 

So do i need to install anything special? Do anything special? Or just disassemble my pc and build it again with the new parts?

Thank you!

[Anghammarad]

Hi =) 

 

first congrats on building your machine =)

 

So from what you wrote you'll keep your drives, gpu, case and PSU, everything else gets swapped out.

 

It is usually advised to do a fresh install. Because some times windows can get wonky after a major hardware swap. 

In my own experience, I never did that =) just removed all the old drivers before the last shutdown in safe mode, then did the upgrade. 

 

As a little advice, before disassembling, when you keep your drives, download the newest drivers for the new hardware so you already have them at hand when turning the machine on for the first time.

[Mr.Meerkat]

Typically its a good idea to reinstall windows after a motherboard change however as you're going from intel to intel, you may not need to. Just give it a try first and if you don't experience any issues then don't bother reinstalling. 

[NelizMastr]

Yep, just rebuild as usual. If you have Windows 8.1 or Windows 10, the OS will reconfigure itself for the new hardware. Update your drivers once you're back in Windows.

If you upgraded from W7/8 to 10 before, you'll need to buy a new Windows 10 license since it's non-transferrable. Windows 7 won't run on Coffee Lake / is unsupported by Microsoft.

[lior1111]

15 minutes ago, Anghammarad said:

Hi =) 

 

first congrats on building your machine =)

 

So from what you wrote you'll keep your drives, gpu, case and PSU, everything else gets swapped out.

 

It is usually advised to do a fresh install. Because some times windows can get wonky after a major hardware swap. 

In my own experience, I never did that =) just removed all the old drivers before the last shutdown in safe mode, then did the upgrade. 

 

As a little advice, before disassembling, when you keep your drives, download the newest drivers for the new hardware so you already have them at hand when turning the machine on for the first time.

Alright, i dont think ill reinstall, but downloading the drivers is a great idea as i dont have a dvd drive, thank you! 

But.. Removing the drives on safe mode, how exactly do you do that? Didnt quite understand.. Sorry ?

14 minutes ago, Mr.Meerkat said:

Typically its a good idea to reinstall windows after a motherboard change however as you're going from intel to intel, you may not need to. Just give it a try first and if you don't experience any issues then don't bother reinstalling. 

Thank you i think ill keep the windows as it is and see how it goes

14 minutes ago, NelizMastr said:

Yep, just rebuild as usual. If you have Windows 8.1 or Windows 10, the OS will reconfigure itself for the new hardware. Update your drivers once you're back in Windows.

If you upgraded from W7/8 to 10 before, you'll need to buy a new Windows 10 license since it's non-transferrable. Windows 7 won't run on Coffee Lake / is unsupported by Microsoft.

Ill download the drivers before i disassemble the pc so i can install them immediately as i dont have a dvd driver. Thank you! 

[Anghammarad]

1 minute ago, lior1111 said:

But.. Removing the drives on safe mode, how exactly do you do that? Didnt quite understand.. Sorry ?

drivers =) not drives. 

 

like @NelizMastr said, as long as you run windows 8.1 or higher, just boot up the new system and feed it the new drivers. all should be well then.

[lior1111]

2 hours ago, Anghammarad said:

drivers =) not drives. 

 

like @NelizMastr said, as long as you run windows 8.1 or higher, just boot up the new system and feed it the new drivers. all should be well then.

Ive fully built the pc and while it is booting, it is booting straight to the bios, in the bios it detects the ssd which has windows installed on it, but it doesnt detect the hdd with all the data and games. Im trying to boot into the ssd without success, it keeps getting me back to the bios. What do i do? 

[Anghammarad]

11 hours ago, lior1111 said:

Ive fully built the pc and while it is booting, it is booting straight to the bios, in the bios it detects the ssd which has windows installed on it, but it doesnt detect the hdd with all the data and games. Im trying to boot into the ssd without success, it keeps getting me back to the bios. What do i do? 

Sounds like the bootloader is on the HDD. 

 

So I imagine you have tried another cable and SATA port on the mainboard already?