Hello. I built my first PC last year in August 2018 and have not had any major issues until now. My current MOBO (Asus - ROG STRIX Z370-E GAMING ATX LGA1151 Motherboard ) died recently or so it seems that is what went wrong with my PC. BSOD then no displaying image at all. My specs are as follows.
i7-8700K (never overclocked)
Corsair - H100i v2 70.69 CFM Liquid CPU Cooler
G.Skill - Trident Z RGB 32 GB (4 x 8 GB) DDR4-3600 Memory (2 pair bought separately)
Samsung - 970 Evo 250 GB M.2-2280 Solid State Drive
NVIDIA - GeForce RTX 2080 Ti 11 GB Founders Edition Video Card
EVGA - SuperNOVA P2 750 W 80+ Platinum Certified Fully-Modular ATX Power Supply
Corsair - LL120RGB LED (6 Fans With Lighting Node PRO) 43.25 CFM 120mm Fans
Acer - XB271HU bmiprz 27.0" 2560x1440 165 Hz Monitor
Other drives in system
Seagate Firecudda 2 TB - for media files
Samsung 680 Evo 1 SSD 1TB (For game installs)
So I was looking to get a better MOBO and decided on the new Aorus Z390 Ulta board since they have the best VRMs right now for the price point and I would like to overclock my i7-8700K to 5GHz. My previous Mobo did not seem like it was recommended for the task so I left it stock. I assume my AIO should suffice to keep my CPU from getting too high. I still plan on to RMA my current one but I will have it as a backup. ASUS is just too expensive still and MSI is not as good at the price point with features.
Anyways as the topic question states. Do I need to do a fresh install of Windows 10 Pro or can I just reinstall my NVME and boot from there and not have to go through the trouble of reinstalling everything. I was reading and there are many different answers. I think since I changed from Mobo company from Asus to Gigabyte and going from the Z370 to Z390 I might have to which is a bummer. I do have a new fresh 970 EVO 500GB I picked up for the same price as my 25G0GB some months ago and was going to clone my drive but it might just be best to do a fresh install? Would it be possible to install the second NVME even if it has Windows in it and transfer at least some of the data I have in there like downloads of files but just reinstall all the apps manually and then format it so I can use it as a back up drive? to install apps and other data.
Many thanks in advance.
i7-8700K (never overclocked)
Corsair - H100i v2 70.69 CFM Liquid CPU Cooler
G.Skill - Trident Z RGB 32 GB (4 x 8 GB) DDR4-3600 Memory (2 pair bought separately)
Samsung - 970 Evo 250 GB M.2-2280 Solid State Drive
NVIDIA - GeForce RTX 2080 Ti 11 GB Founders Edition Video Card
EVGA - SuperNOVA P2 750 W 80+ Platinum Certified Fully-Modular ATX Power Supply
Corsair - LL120RGB LED (6 Fans With Lighting Node PRO) 43.25 CFM 120mm Fans
Acer - XB271HU bmiprz 27.0" 2560x1440 165 Hz Monitor
Other drives in system
Seagate Firecudda 2 TB - for media files
Samsung 680 Evo 1 SSD 1TB (For game installs)
So I was looking to get a better MOBO and decided on the new Aorus Z390 Ulta board since they have the best VRMs right now for the price point and I would like to overclock my i7-8700K to 5GHz. My previous Mobo did not seem like it was recommended for the task so I left it stock. I assume my AIO should suffice to keep my CPU from getting too high. I still plan on to RMA my current one but I will have it as a backup. ASUS is just too expensive still and MSI is not as good at the price point with features.
Anyways as the topic question states. Do I need to do a fresh install of Windows 10 Pro or can I just reinstall my NVME and boot from there and not have to go through the trouble of reinstalling everything. I was reading and there are many different answers. I think since I changed from Mobo company from Asus to Gigabyte and going from the Z370 to Z390 I might have to which is a bummer. I do have a new fresh 970 EVO 500GB I picked up for the same price as my 25G0GB some months ago and was going to clone my drive but it might just be best to do a fresh install? Would it be possible to install the second NVME even if it has Windows in it and transfer at least some of the data I have in there like downloads of files but just reinstall all the apps manually and then format it so I can use it as a back up drive? to install apps and other data.
Many thanks in advance.
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