[SOLVED] Windows reinstall after CPU change?

[sobakowa19]

Kind of a stupid question, so hopefully a quick response.... I have a Ryzen 5 3600X in my PC ATM. I have a Christmas gift in the mail that's a Ryzen 7 5800x. I'll use the same x570 board I have, but will windows freak out and not boot/deactivate when I change CPUs?

 

[sobakowa19]

Kind of a stupid question, so hopefully a quick response.... I have a Ryzen 5 3600X in my PC ATM. I have a Christmas gift in the mail that's a Ryzen 7 5800x. I'll use the same x570 board I have, but will windows freak out and not boot/deactivate when I change CPUs? Also what about if I change RAM? The kit I have is 3200mhz and my neighbor just got an am5 board for the 7000s chips and is giving me 3600mhz (same Corsair vengeance stuff)

 

[sobakowa19]

Kind of a stupid question, so hopefully a quick response.... I have a Ryzen 5 3600X in my PC ATM. I have a Christmas gift in the mail that's a Ryzen 7 5800x. I'll use the same x570 board I have, but will windows freak out and not boot/deactivate when I change CPUs? Also what about if I change RAM? The kit I have is 3200mhz and my neighbor just got an am5 board for the 7000s chips and is giving me 3600mhz (same Corsair vengeance stuff)

 

[white.a.drew]

Kind of a stupid question, so hopefully a quick response.... I have a Ryzen 5 3600X in my PC ATM. I have a Christmas gift in the mail that's a Ryzen 7 5800x. I'll use the same x570 board I have, but will windows freak out and not boot/deactivate when I change CPUs? Also what about if I change RAM? The kit I have is 3200mhz and my neighbor just got an am5 board for the 7000s chips and is giving me 3600mhz (same Corsair vengeance stuff)

No there is no need to reinstall any os's or any of that only time a reinstal or similar is needed Is if you replace the hdd add with os info on it

 

[boju]

Windows reinstall not necessary after cpu change, this is more for if you changed motherboard chipsets, mash of registry entries wouldn't favour performance and stability. Activation state won't change, this only happens if motherboard is swapped for another. MS digital license is tied to the motherboard, that's why.

As for ram, try it and see. Again, no Windows reinstall.

Only possible issue changing cpus with higher core count is Windows may limit cores. If it does all you do is go to msconfig and deselect number of processors and reboot if Windows checks this option itself. Happens sometimes, no big deal fixing it.

 

[Bob.B]

Verify you have the proper bios installed to support the new cpu.

Ram?.....once you get the new cpu installed and tested you can try both sets of ram and see if there is a diff.

Do you have the proper cooler for this new cpu?

 

[sobakowa19]

So windows wont do anything funny like deactivate or fail to boot.... its a swap on the same x570 board

 

[Bob.B]

So windows wont do anything funny like deactivate or fail to boot.... its a swap on the same x570 board

Should work fine.

 

[sobakowa19]

Should work fine.

Thanks.... Cooling is a 360 aio... Appreciate the response

 

[CountMike]

So windows wont do anything funny like deactivate or fail to boot.... its a swap on the same x570 board

License is tied to MB and nothing else and if you activated W10 or 11 with MS account even that doesn't matter.