Question Changing platform, clean install or repair?

[Thlian]

Switching from Intel i5-11600 with z590 mobo to AMD Ryzen 7 9700x and Gigabyte X870 Gaming X. I hope this will feel like an upgrade, crossing fingers. But, besides checking BIOS settings like UEFI and TPM, is it enough to use bood drive and choose upgrade during the install. Or is it best just to do a clean install?

If I need a clean install. Would you recommend installing it on my Samsung 970 Pro M.2 Nvme? Or continue to use the older 2,5" 500gb ssd I'm running on now? (I also have a 250gb 2,5" ssd).
If I it will make the system faster with the MUCH faster m.2 drive. I will do that. Guess CSM always should be disabled? Dunno why this has been an issue detecting a m.2. Never had any issues using this on my Intel board with CSM disabled. (Read about it on a forum).

Any input would be appreciated before I start.

 

[Colif]

clean install

all new hardware, start fresh. Especially when swapping CPU/MB

less chance of errors. No chance of old drivers making a mess.

put it on nvme, boot times and loading of applications will be faster than ssd.

csm needs to be off as you want to use UEFI boot in Windows 11.

 

[Lafong]

Be sure to have just ONE drive connected during the install.

You don't have to prepare the drive beforehand. The installation process for a USB flash drive will do whatever is necessary.

 

[Misgar]

Would you recommend installing it on my Samsung 970 Pro M.2 Nvme? Or continue to use the older 2,5" 500gb ssd I'm running on now? (I also have a 250gb 2,5" ssd).

My preference would be to install the new OS on the NVMe drive, but I have loads of old machines still booting from SATA drives.

Guess CSM always should be disabled?

On some of my older systems where I still need CSM, I dive into the BIOS and select "UEFI first, CSM second" if appropriate. Otherwise, "UEFI only" is the way to go on a modern system.

 

[Bob.B]

Switching from Intel i5-11600 with z590 mobo to AMD Ryzen 7 9700x and Gigabyte X870 Gaming X. I hope this will feel like an upgrade, crossing fingers. But, besides checking BIOS settings like UEFI and TPM, is it enough to use bood drive and choose upgrade during the install. Or is it best just to do a clean install?

If I need a clean install. Would you recommend installing it on my Samsung 970 Pro M.2 Nvme? Or continue to use the older 2,5" 500gb ssd I'm running on now? (I also have a 250gb 2,5" ssd).
If I it will make the system faster with the MUCH faster m.2 drive. I will do that. Guess CSM always should be disabled? Dunno why this has been an issue detecting a m.2. Never had any issues using this on my Intel board with CSM disabled. (Read about it on a forum).

Any input would be appreciated before I start.

I see no diff booting and running the OS from a 2.5 ssd vs a gen 3 ssd.
Ymmv.

 

[USAFRet]

Absolutely clean install.

Which OS?

How To - Windows 10 clean install tutorial

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How To - Windows 11 clean install tutorial

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[Thlian]

Be sure to have just ONE drive connected during the install.

You don't have to prepare the drive beforehand. The installation process for a USB flash drive will do whatever is necessary.

This is where I, or think I might have done wrong before. When «deleted» the partition, it’s still there. But should it be created as new? Format and new or delete and new? Or just format and go?

 

[Thlian]

Absolutely clean install.

Which OS?

How To - Windows 10 clean install tutorial

If you are looking for the Windows 11 Clean install tutorial, you can find that here: Windows 11 Clean install tutorial (Click here) Otherwise, welcome to the Windows 10 Clean install tutorial This tutorial is intended to help you, step by step, to perform a clean install of Windows...

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How To - Windows 11 clean install tutorial

Windows 11 Clean install tutorial This tutorial is intended to help you, step by step, to perform a clean install of Windows 11, version 23H2 or newer but can be equally applied to earlier versions which may have some basic differences in the screens you see but will largely remain similar in...

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Windows 11 this time.

 

[ohio_buckeye]

Clean install. Just use the media creation tool to create your installer on another box. Boot from the USB with only the drive you’ll install to connected, remove all partitions from drive and install then reconnect the other drives.

While nvme is faster, for booting and day to day use I don’t think you’ll see a lot of difference between a 2.5 and nvme as a boot drive unless you are copying files etc. But for day to day like web browsing etc you probably won’t see as much. However you’ll appreciate nvme when installing games etc due to loading times on bigger/newer games imo.

 

[Thlian]

Clean install. Just use the media creation tool to create your installer on another box. Boot from the USB with only the drive you’ll install to connected, remove all partitions from drive and install then reconnect the other drives.

While nvme is faster, for booting and day to day use I don’t think you’ll see a lot of difference between a 2.5 and nvme as a boot drive unless you are copying files etc. But for day to day like web browsing etc you probably won’t see as much. However you’ll appreciate nvme when installing games etc due to loading times on bigger/newer games imo.

I wonder if the nvme have impact on game performance. Because that's what's important. Not web browsing.

 

[USAFRet]

I wonder if the nvme have impact on game performance. Because that's what's important. Not web browsing.

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4YoRKQy-UO4

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4DKLA7w9eeA

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GQ9LyNXpsOo

 

[ohio_buckeye]

Exactly. If your doing a lot of file copies etc you'll see the difference. In most of the games like he showed you are talking what a couple of seconds maybe, which you may or may not even perceive. Once levels are loaded I'd expect for the most part your fps to be about the same. It may be different in some newer games as games get bigger and bigger. But that said NVME drives are usually about the same price anymore.

If you happen to stumble across some super deal on a sata ssd that's too good to pass up, get it. As you can see you won't miss a lot. But some boards only have the option for maybe 1 nvme drive. So in that case, maybe you get a sata ssd drive to boot from and pick up a 2 or 4tb nvme for your storage and to load your larger games from. But ultimately, just like you saw with the video from Linus, you'll likely be hard pressed to see/feel a difference, with the caveat in my opinion, that maybe you are copying large file sets.