Question can i use my existing drives upgrading to 12th gen

[dangar46]

I am upgrading my pc from 3rd gen to 12th gen. I have asrock z77extreme 6 and upgrading to asrock z690 steel legend. Can i use my existing ssd drives without reinstalling windows. Will windows even boot in the new config, Right now using ddr3 with 17 3770k, will be using ddr4 with i7 12700k. Running windows 10

 

[USAFRet]

I am upgrading my pc from 3rd gen to 12th gen. I have asrock z77extreme 6 and upgrading to asrock z690 steel legend. Can i use my existing ssd drives without reinstalling windows. Will windows even boot in the new config, Right now using ddr3 with 17 3770k, will be using ddr4 with i7 12700k. Running windows 10

Highly unlikely it would simply boot up.
And not recommended in any case.

Why would you want to drag along a lot of old gunk from the old system?
Give your new shiny a clean start.

 

[CountMike]

I am upgrading my pc from 3rd gen to 12th gen. I have asrock z77extreme 6 and upgrading to asrock z690 steel legend. Can i use my existing ssd drives without reinstalling windows. Will windows even boot in the new config, Right now using ddr3 with 17 3770k, will be using ddr4 with i7 12700k. Running windows 10

There's too much difference between generations even if W10,it's not only about CPU but chipset and rest of equipment in MB.

 

[dangar46]

the drives are ssd . i have 3, a 256 for windows and 2 1tb and a 2 tb. all samsung evo. really hoping i wouldn't have to redownload every game again, and reinstall everything. just tearing my thermaltake core p6 apart and doing wire management again was going to be bad enough. was just hoping to save time. thanks for the input

 

[geofelt]

The stock recommendation is to do a new clean install.
That is good advice, and you may have to do that anyway.

But, that has no consideration of the pain that re installation of apps might cause. Perhaps you had some critical settings that you have forgotten.
Perhaps you have lost the install media for something critical or...
If reinstalling your apps and settings is a big pain.
I say give it a try. What do you have to lose?

Protect yourself first by backing up what you need to save.
Perhaps clone the C drive to a ssd, and set the original C drive aside.

If you can boot with the cloned windows drive, then install the new motherboard drivers that came with the motherboard.
Intel to Intel seems to work reasonably often.

I might add that the Z690 motherboards will support 13th gen which generally offer a price/performance boost.
For example, the I5-13500 performance is similar to the i7-12700K but costs less.
Also, with 12th and 13th gen you really do not need a Z chipset since overclocking is no longer the way to go for most.

 

[dangar46]

The stock recommendation is to do a new clean install.
That is good advice, and you may have to do that anyway.

But, that has no consideration of the pain that re installation of apps might cause. Perhaps you had some critical settings that you have forgotten.
Perhaps you have lost the install media for something critical or...
If reinstalling your apps and settings is a big pain.
I say give it a try. What do you have to lose?

Protect yourself first by backing up what you need to save.
Perhaps clone the C drive to a ssd, and set the original C drive aside.

If you can boot with the cloned windows drive, then install the new motherboard drivers that came with the motherboard.
Intel to Intel seems to work reasonably often.

I might add that the Z690 motherboards will support 13th gen which generally offer a price/performance boost.
For example, the I5-13500 performance is similar to the i7-12700K but costs less.
Also, with 12th and 13th gen you really do not need a Z chipset since overclocking is no longer the way to go for most.

I have a 4090 graphics card. I'm trying to figure out between a K or a KF. I know the difference so do I really need onboard graphics. The kf is a little cheaper. I'm already little over 1200 in this upgrade, and processor is my last thing to get. Is it wise to cheap out on it. The 13th gen is little out of my range. Wife already giving a little static for what I already spent. And i never overclock.only reason for the upgrade because the 3770 has been a great chip, but i wanna be ready for starfield and the new fable when they finally come out.

 

[geofelt]

The non F version usually costs about $15 more.
It is cheap insurance if you should ever have a graphics card issue.
It also lets you test the new build without having to gimp your old by removing the graphics card.
As a plus, integrated graphics gets you quick sync which boosts video editing:
https://www.intel.com/content/www/u...uick-sync-video/quick-sync-video-general.html

The K suffix processors allow overclocking with a Z chipset.
But, for gaming, overclocking is not the way to go.
It turns out better to let the default turbo mechanism boost a couple of cores past what an all core oc can do.
If budget is an issue, look at smaller MATX motherboards with a B660 or B760 chipset. They are usually cheaper.

What are you planning for a cooler?
LGA1700 requires a different cooler or at least an adapter.

You might list the make/model of all of your current parts as well as what new ones you have purchased.

 

[dangar46]

The non F version usually costs about $15 more.
It is cheap insurance if you should ever have a graphics card issue.
It also lets you test the new build without having to gimp your old by removing the graphics card.
As a plus, integrated graphics gets you quick sync which boosts video editing:
https://www.intel.com/content/www/u...uick-sync-video/quick-sync-video-general.html

The K suffix processors allow overclocking with a Z chipset.
But, for gaming, overclocking is not the way to go.
It turns out better to let the default turbo mechanism boost a couple of cores past what an all core oc can do.
If budget is an issue, look at smaller MATX motherboards with a B660 or B760 chipset. They are usually cheaper.

What are you planning for a cooler?
LGA1700 requires a different cooler or at least an adapter.

You might list the make/model of all of your current parts as well as what new ones you have purchased.

what i have so far is
ASRock z690 steel legend wifi6E
t-force ddr4 3200 nighthawk ram
thermaltake toughpower 1050 watt platinum power supply
vetroo v360 lurker aio cooler
thermaltake core p6 case
Colorful rtx geforce 4090 NB EX-V battleaxe graphics card

Now just gotta figure out what processor i wanna put in, i already have the thermal grizzly antibend bracket also

 

[johnbl]

avoid the headaches and do a clean install on the new motherboard.

more info: yes, you can often get the drive to boot windows but it is using the windows plug and play system to install drivers for devices that your old motherboad did not have. This creates problems for windows plug and play system. Basically it thinks you have two sets of hardware.
a bunch of hardware that failed (from old motherboard) and a bunch of hardware that started working (from the new motherboard). This might not be a problem but there are cases where windows plug and play will assume that the old hardware will come back so it assigns secondary hardware resources to the newly detected hardware. This can cause some very strange situations and unexpected problems.
for example, I once debugged a machine that seemed to work fine but if the person would move his mouse fast for several seconds then the machine would bugcheck with a watchdog timeout in the GPU.
this was a windows 7 test machine, turned out they were booting many different machines with the same drive, the plug and play put the GPU chained behind the mouse interrut.
IE the mouse (a slow device) had priority over the GPU (fast device).
so if you pressed the mouse button and wiggled the mouse for about 3 seconds the GPU would timeout and bugcheck.
GPU default timeout is 2 seconds
drive default timeout is 30 seconds
usb default timeout is 500 seconds

anyway, clean installs are best to avoid these strange problems.

 

[Why_Me]

I have a 4090 graphics card. I'm trying to figure out between a K or a KF. I know the difference so do I really need onboard graphics. The kf is a little cheaper. I'm already little over 1200 in this upgrade, and processor is my last thing to get. Is it wise to cheap out on it. The 13th gen is little out of my range. Wife already giving a little static for what I already spent. And i never overclock.only reason for the upgrade because the 3770 has been a great chip, but i wanna be ready for starfield and the new fable when they finally come out.

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