Swapping out motherboards

[nick_123]

A couple months ago i built my first pc with the ASRock H170M-Pro 4 and at the time i didn't realise that i could not overclock my cpu (6600k) with this motherboard. I've recently been thinking about swapping out my motherboard and was wondering if it's as simple as taking one out and putting a new one it, or will there be driver issues and other problems ill need to take care of?
Thanks

 

[Grugbug]

You may get lucky and have no issues.
People usually just do a fresh install to bypass potential issues.

 

[USAFRet]

A couple months ago i built my first pc with the ASRock H170M-Pro 4 and at the time i didn't realise that i could not overclock my cpu (6600k) with this motherboard. I've recently been thinking about swapping out my motherboard and was wondering if it's as simple as taking one out and putting a new one it, or will there be driver issues and other problems ill need to take care of?
Thanks

What OS is this?
This may require a reactivation of your Windows license.

If Win 10, read and do this before you change any hardware: http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/id-3164428/windows-build-1607-activation.html


As far as drivers and actual operation, maybe, maybe not. If you're just changing the board to another of the same socket/generation, likely it will work and boot up just fine.
But....no guarantees.