First time in 10 years bought new parts. Got two questions

[Martin_1]

Hi all,

 

I bought new parts for a new system. My old system is 10 years old (Intel Core 2 Quad Q9450 @ 2.66GHz, Maximus Extreme (LGA775) the very first ever produced Maximus) and it was time to renew.

Here is what I bought now:

AMD Ryzen 7 1700X - Processor
Asus Crosshair VI Hero - Motherboard

Corsair Vengeance LPX - DDR4 16GB

be quiet! SHADOW ROCK 2

 

I already have a Samsung SSD 850 EVO 250GB for Windows and two Seagate Barracuda ST2000DM006 2TB hardrives in my current system.

 

However, I have two questions.

The first one is in regards to my old videocard. I am not able to buy a new videocard at this moment. So I will need to keep using my current card which is a:

 

1024MB ATI AMD Radeon HD 7700 Series (ASUStek Computer Inc)

 

Will I run into trouble with this older card with the new motherboard and/or processor?

 

My second question is:

 

Is there anything I need to keep in mind when setting up the uefi and stuff?

 

As said, keep in mind I'm used to a 10 year old system so also a very old BIOS. So I feel like a totall newby again :-).

[ProjectBox153]

You can use the video card just fine. As for Windows, you'll want to do a clean installation. 

[Jasun]

1) Video cards are mostly backwards compatible and the architecture is basically all the same so it should work. 

2) Setting up your computer could never been easier. Just install Windows 10 (or whatever OS) onto your main drive (probably your SSD). I would reccomend you to use a flash drive or a CD to boot from and install Windows from there. Just make sure you backup all of your important files onto an external hard drive or another drive (probably one of your HDDs so you can move the files back and forth later on) 

[SpaceGhostC2C]

7 minutes ago, Martin_1 said:

 

Is there anything I need to keep in mind when setting up the uefi and stuff?

 

Not much, just wander around a bit to see what settings you have and what you are curious about. The only thing that comes to mind is that RAM won't automatically run at whatever speed it was advertised, but it will default to the DDR4 standard (2133MHz, CL15). If your memory is capable of higher speeds, you'll have to navigate to the memory settings to load the XMP (you have an ASUS board, so maybe they call it DOCP or something like that). The information is stored in the memory stick itself, so the motherboard just reads it and set all the corresponding settings. It is consider an "overclock" (even if it's sold as XXX MHz), though, so it doesn't always work (but 99% of the times it does), in which case you can revert to the standard.

[geo3]

1 hour ago, Martin_1 said:

AMD Ryzen 7 1700X - Processor

Did you not realize the 2700x will be released soon?

[Martin_1]

Thanks folks! You people truelly ROCK :-).

 

I think I can get on with this project. I am just eagerly awaiting for the postman now :-).

[seagate_surfer]

22 hours ago, Martin_1 said:

My second question is:

 

Is there anything I need to keep in mind when setting up the uefi and stuff?

 

As said, keep in mind I'm used to a 10 year old system so also a very old BIOS. So I feel like a totall newby again :-).

When partitioning the drives, you're going to want to get into the habit of using GPT versus MBR. This typically only matters with drives over 2TB capacity, and since you have 2TB drives you could do either, but it may be good just to develop the habit. Part of what was nice about the rise of UEFI is the ability to see drives over 2TB, and using GPT partition table instead of MBR allows you to do this.

[Martin_1]

@seagate_surferGood advice. I knew this, but totally forgot about it :-0