[SOLVED] should i change my windows?

[mmd_jvd]

hey there!
so i recently bought a new cpu. i was wondering after assembling, should i change the windows?
or just assemble it and after installing new drivers, keep continuing to my works?

 

[USAFRet]

hey there!
so i recently bought a new cpu. i was wondering after assembling, should i change the windows?
or just assemble it and after installing new drivers, keep continuing to my works?

Change from what to what?
Did you change ONLY the CPU?

 

[mmd_jvd]

Change from what to what?
Did you change ONLY the CPU?

Yep

 

[USAFRet]

Yep

If it is ONLY the CPU, you probably don't need to reinstall.

But...what CPU?

 

[mmd_jvd]

If it is ONLY the CPU, you probably don't need to reinstall.

But...what CPU?

Well i can't understand why it is matter
But i switched from 9100f to 9400f

 

[jdominicjackson]

depends if you can still see through them

 

[mmd_jvd]

depends if you can still see through them

What's meaning of it

 

[SkyNetRising]

Well i can't understand why it is matter
But i switched from 9100f to 9400f

It matters.
In this case, you don't need to reinstall anything.
Just check, if all cpu cores are being detected in Task Manager. Should be 6 cores now.

 

[jdominicjackson]

why would you have to change windows?
did you try to just swap the cpu? it will just update the drivers

 

[mmd_jvd]

It matters.
In this case, you don't need to reinstall anything.
Just check, if all cpu cores are being detected in Task Manager. Should be 6 cores now.

Can i ask why it's important and in which case i would need to reinstall windows?!

 

[USAFRet]

Can i ask why it's important and in which case i would need to reinstall windows?!

Some CPUs, even of the same theoretical socket, are not compatible across the same motherboard.

Also, we'd have people ask about a "CPU change", then to realize they are changing from Intel to AMD. Not knowing they are not compatible in the least, and will also need a new motherboard.

 

[SkyNetRising]

Can i ask why it's important and in which case i would need to reinstall windows?!

If you changed cpu together with motherboard, then you'd probably have to reinstall windows.

 

[geofelt]

A simple cpu change on the same motherboard does not require a reinstall of windows.
If all seems to work, you need do nothing more.
Verify using task manager that you now have 6 threads, and not the 4 you had previously.

There may possibly be some advantage in a motherboard bios update or a chipset update, but I would not bother.

 

[TommyTwoTone66]

You do not need to reinstall windows after changing CPU. This is true in nearly all cases. The exception would be if the new CPU was much newer, and to use it you had to update the BIOS from an old non-AHCI compliant BIOS to an AHCI-compliant one, and you decide that you want to use AHCI now that your computer supports it.

You should generally only reinstall windows if you change out the motherboard.