Hi,

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I’ve seen a few people say it’ll be fine, I’ve heard that it is a terrible decision. Could I take my m.2 SSD out of my current AMD PC and put it directly into my new intel system? Should I reset it to default windows first and get rid of programs and drivers? Could use some advice. Thanks!

  • CybaGirl@alien.topBEnglish
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    1 year ago

    I switched out an Alienware motherboard (Intel CPU) to an AMD B450 and AMD 3100 without an issue. After Windows had loaded it installed all the necessary drivers and was good to go.

    I would normally have done a new install of Windows but in this instance it didn’t need it.

    I think gone are the days of Windows XP etc where you had to do a full reinstall of Windows.

    But if you want piece of mind? Sure do a new install.

    Problem is some commercial software may be linked to your hardware ID. But that is easily changed. You will just need to know what your current hardware ID is before installing Windows…

    • Cradenz@alien.topBEnglish
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      1 year ago

      Absolutely need a fresh install. Every single AMD driver that was downloaded is still on there and can cause issues. Even today there have been posts of people only getting 16-20k in cinebench when they should be getting 39k because they switched but didn’t fresh install