Moving from a 4670k to a 4790k

[Panteraleo]

Do I have to re-install/redo everything in order to move this way? I know its the same haswell architecture but its a different mother board too. any suggestions? id prefer to just be able to migrate everything easily.
Thanks.

 

[IInuyasha74]

If you are only switching the CPU then you won't need to reinstall anything. It will pick straight up and function normally.

If you are switching the motherboard also, you will need to reinstall everything. While its possible it will boot and work without reinstalling anything, its more likely that you will have major performance and compatibility issues in software and suffer a lot of problems as a result.

 

[Panteraleo]

If you are only switching the CPU then you won't need to reinstall anything. It will pick straight up and function normally.

If you are switching the motherboard also, you will need to reinstall everything. While its possible it will boot and work without reinstalling anything, its more likely that you will have major performance and compatibility issues in software and suffer a lot of problems as a result.

That's kinda what i figured, any suggestions on migration or should i just keep it simple and do a full reinstall?

 

[doubletake]

It's easy enough, the CPU will have 0 effect on the change, all you really have to do is uninstall all the drivers from your current motherboard (sound, network, chipset, etc), shut down and then make the change. Make sure to leave everything at stock the first time you're going to boot the new build (just set boot priority for drives), install all necessary new drivers for the board in Windows, and once you've made sure everything's up and running as it should, you can get started on changing things in BIOS (overclock, etc).

I've personally moved from a z68 setup to a z97 one on the same install and I've had 0 problems.

 

[IInuyasha74]

It's easy enough, the CPU will have 0 effect on the change, all you really have to do is uninstall all the drivers from your current motherboard (sound, network, chipset, etc), shut down and then make the change. Make sure to leave everything at stock the first time you're going to boot the new build (just set boot priority for drives), install all necessary new drivers for the board in Windows, and once you've made sure everything's up and running as it should, you can get started on changing things in BIOS (overclock, etc).

Well you could do like he is saying. It should work if you uninstall all the drivers and reinstall the new ones, I just wouldn't feel good about it. I'd personally prefer to do a clean install. But if you have a lot of software set up you might give it a try, worst it can do really is have stability issues. Just make sure you backup all your data before hand just in case.

 

[doubletake]

Most of these device drivers have 0 effect on overall stability by just being removed/added (we mostly got past this after XP), so there's really nothing that can go wrong to mess up the hardware migration. You probably have a higher chance of encountering data corruption when powering the system drive on/off than messing up your OS install by simply swapping out a motherboard.

 

[IInuyasha74]

Most of these device drivers have 0 effect on overall stability by just being removed/added (we mostly got past this after XP), so there's really nothing that can go wrong to mess up the hardware migration. You probably have a higher chance of encountering data corruption when powering the system drive on/off than messing up your OS install by simply swapping out a motherboard.

Well there is a small chance that parts of the drivers could be left behind in registry and other places and clash with the new drivers. Not many programs remove everything when doing an uninstall, but it still has a good chance of succeeding to just remove them and install new drivers for the new hardware.