New motherboard and cpu with old windows 10

Pdoggiefam

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Jan 3, 2017
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I am doing a pretty significant upgrade to my computer I am going from an AMD fx8350 with a crosshair v formula-z mobo, to an Intel i7-6700k with an asus z170-a mobo and I was wondering if I need to do a fresh install of windows or if I can just put my ssd with Windows 10 onto my new mother board without any problems

Also my copy of Windows 10 is an oem.
 
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Before you change any hardware, read and do this: http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/id-3164428/windows-build-1607-activation.html
This links the OS license to your MS account rather than to specific hardware.

As for reinstall? Maybe it works, maybe it doesn't
A clean install is strongly recommended.

USAFRet

Titan
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Before you change any hardware, read and do this: http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/id-3164428/windows-build-1607-activation.html
This links the OS license to your MS account rather than to specific hardware.

As for reinstall? Maybe it works, maybe it doesn't
A clean install is strongly recommended.
 
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