[SOLVED] From Intel i5 7500 to AMD Ryzen 3700x

[Ben Ellis (AreX)]

With the release of Modern Warfare Warzone, my CPU (i5 7500) was bottlenecking. So i decided to upgrade and i have bought a new ASRock B450 Pro4 and a Ryzen 7 3700x, what would i go with doing prior to installing and installing the CPU and afterwards. (I have never installed a CPU or any component before and i also want to keep my items on my pc such as games etc).

 

[Gfost73]

you'll have to do a fresh install of windows , cant just simply swap motherboards and CPU without doing a clean install of windows.

 

[Ben Ellis (AreX)]

you'll have to do a fresh install of windows , cant just simply swap motherboards and CPU without doing a clean install of windows.

How do i do that and what do i do before installing a new cpu?

 

[Gfost73]

maybe you should look on youtube on how to install the CPU, its not hard but has to be done a certain exact way, once the CPU is in the motherboard socket, you then have to install the cooler, RAM and a hard drive, you may also have to update Bios to newest version to work with 3rd Gen Ryzen , some motherboards require a 2nd Gen processor installed in order to update bios, I'm not sure if yours does or even what version Bios you may have (it very well may be newest)