Changed my motherboard and did a factory restore, do I still have to clean install windows?

[Flux_05]

Hey guys, yesterday I replaced my amd cpu and motherboard to Intel. And then I did a factory restore to my pc (delete everything). I've seen a lot of people saying to do a clean install of windows because of the new motherboard so my question is, do I still need to do a clean install of windows or factory restoring is enough or does the same thing? It did install windows 10 again but didn't ask me for a product key.

Sorry if I sound like a noob. Thanks guys

 

[Math Geek]

i am not sure but this might have been enough. look into device manager and see if it has the new chipset installed for the motherboard and if it installed the features for the new mobo and does not list the old ones. if so, then you are probably safe as is.

if it is listing stuff from your old mobo, then i'd go ahead and do the clean install. it is true i ALWAYS suggest a clean install but win 10 seems to have some other options available. like the restore you did and the ability to install from an iso file over your current install and save programs and settings. so likely this might turn into advice for older windows versions but not needed for win 10.

so check out device manager and see what it says it has installed.

 

[Shaun o]

I can never be more honest Flux.

Change the motherboard in respect to it`s brand but also the model number, and if the chip set of the board changes.
Always do a fresh install of the windows OS on your system to keep it maximally stable as possobile.

Flux without and doubts.
It`s quicker in the long run. and better to do.

 

[Flux_05]

i am not sure but this might have been enough. look into device manager and see if it has the new chipset installed for the motherboard and if it installed the features for the new mobo and does not list the old ones. if so, then you are probably safe as is.

if it is listing stuff from your old mobo, then i'd go ahead and do the clean install. it is true i ALWAYS suggest a clean install but win 10 seems to have some other options available. like the restore you did and the ability to install from an iso file over your current install and save programs and settings. so likely this might turn into advice for older windows versions but not needed for win 10.

so check out device manager and see what it says it has installed.

I don't know which ones are from my old motherboard but there's not much listed here. Can you maybe take a look at it? I would really appreciate it.

Here's the screenshots
1 https://puu.sh/sVHXl/aac0bc2c91.png
2 https://puu.sh/sVHZ5/0400f88399.png

btw my OLD motherboard is: ASUS M5a97 LE R2.0
My NEW mobo is: MSI Z170A Krait Gaming 3X

Also my old cpy is AMD FX-6300 and the new one is Intel I5 6600k

 

[Math Geek]

everything looks to be intel related. i don't see anything amd in that list. looks like the restore got it all. looking at the feature list of your old mobo, i don't see any of those installed.

for now, i'd leave it as is. if you start having weird issues and crashes, then you can revisit this topic and see what might be going on. but it sure looks like your new stuff is installed and your old stuff is not.

 

[Flux_05]

everything looks to be intel related. i don't see anything amd in that list. looks like the restore got it all. looking at the feature list of your old mobo, i don't see any of those installed.

for now, i'd leave it as is. if you start having weird issues and crashes, then you can revisit this topic and see what might be going on. but it sure looks like your new stuff is installed and your old stuff is not.

Thank you