upgrading from 6600K to 2700x

[Wolly9102]

Hi,

 

 

tomorrow my new ryzen CPU and Motherboard are arriving, i am upgrading from I5 6600K, Now my question is, if i reinstall windows (key is not OEM) do i also need to reinstall my games? Or are they ready to go if i tell steam and orgin where to look? I have everything set up already for the swap, (created media tool and stored all documents on my game drive). Also does windows automatically detect the key? I heard it's tied to to motherboard. I have it linked to my MS account.

 

Thx,

[Vasllo]

I don't think you'll have any problems, I didn't when changing PCs and messing with games. I think Steam automatically recognizes the games in it's folder, while in uPlay you have to select where each game is, and I think Origin works the same way. My key was OEM though, so see if someone else confirms this as well.

[Eastman51]

1 minute ago, Arjan W said:

Hi,

 

 

tomorrow my new ryzen CPU and Motherboard are arriving, i am upgrading from I5 6600K, Now my question is, if i reinstall windows (key is not OEM) do i also need to reinstall my games? Or are they ready to go if i tell steam and orgin where to look? I have everything set up already for the swap, (created media tool and stored all documents on my game drive). Also does windows automatically detect the key? I heard it's tied to to motherboard. I have it linked to my MS account.

 

Thx,

If your games are installed on a separate drive from Windows, then all you have to do is tell Steam where your library is once you reinstall it. If they are on the same drive as Windows, you will have to redownload them; unless you copy them over to another drive before you reinstall.

 

As for Windows key: if you bought a PC from HP, Dell, etc then the Windows key is tied to the board because it is not a commercially available board (and they are usually proprietary boards anyways). The Windows key in custom built machines are in the installation itself. Windows doesn't usually copy the key automatically, but if you linked it to your MS account, that can help you get back up and running pretty fast. You can also check out this video for more info: 

 

[Wolly9102]

3 minutes ago, Eastman51 said:

 

 

As for Windows key: if you bought a PC from HP, Dell, etc then the Windows key is tied to the board because it is not a commercially available board (and they are usually proprietary boards anyways). The Windows key in custom built machines are in the installation itself. Windows doesn't usually copy the key automatically, but if you linked it to your MS account, that can help you get back up and running pretty fast. You can also check out this video for more info: 

 I assembled this system about 2,5 year ago myself. The key is bought and not from any manyfacture  so does this pose a problem?

 

reason for upgrading is to be more furture proof, the 6600K will bottleneck the RTX series, so I think it had it's best time 

[Eastman51]

Just now, Arjan W said:

 I assembled this system about 2,5 year ago myself. The key is bought and not from any manyfacture  so does this pose a problem?

 

Nope. You can try the MS account link method, or find your key and type it in manually. If nothing is working you can give Microsoft a call, they've helped me with activation a couple times.

[DanielNS84]

Might wanna consider just keeping your install, I've done a lot of motherboard/CPU swaps recently and had no issues with Windows (Especially with 10). I don't even need to boot to  safe mode for driver swaps lately, everything just works. I've even upgraded several HDD/SSD systems to NVMe drives recently without reinstalling (Even going MBR to GPT). Just a thought!

[Wolly9102]

7 minutes ago, DanielNS84 said:

Might wanna consider just keeping your install, I've done a lot of motherboard/CPU swaps recently and had no issues with Windows (Especially with 10). I don't even need to boot to  safe mode for driver swaps lately, everything just works. I've even upgraded several HDD/SSD systems to NVMe drives recently without reinstalling (Even going MBR to GPT). Just a thought!

I get your point, I don't just install new components and blindly jam an new install on it. I am first going to see if it boots. however, I swapped the mobo in the intel system lifetime once and I didn't reinstall the OS. There are still some small stability issues because of it but nothing major. 

[DanielNS84]

Got it, but yeah I've seen good results especially if you've never manually installed anything but GPU drivers. Those are usually the same when swapping motherboards and the rest swap automatically. I'll test it out when I finish my daughter's build. She's got a Core 2 Duo system with a Nvidia 720 or something in it and I'm getting her a 2700x and my old RX-480 (She's 5 but is now addicted to playing her games at 4K, Little Nightmares is her favorite). If this swap works then I'll assume it works most times as it's the biggest swap I've done as far as differences. 

[Wolly9102]

12 hours ago, DanielNS84 said:

Got it, but yeah I've seen good results especially if you've never manually installed anything but GPU drivers. Those are usually the same when swapping motherboards and the rest swap automatically. I'll test it out when I finish my daughter's build. She's got a Core 2 Duo system with a Nvidia 720 or something in it and I'm getting her a 2700x and my old RX-480 (She's 5 but is now addicted to playing her games at 4K, Little Nightmares is her favorite). If this swap works then I'll assume it works most times as it's the biggest swap I've done as far as differences. 

 

23 hours ago, Eastman51 said:

Nope. You can try the MS account link method, or find your key and type it in manually. If nothing is working you can give Microsoft a call, they've helped me with activation a couple times.

 

The swap went suprisingly well, It booted with no display driver however, but with a reinstall this was solved. Windows was still activated (or reactivated) no driver or other issue, it booted like nothing happend