Changing motherboards (windows install)

Gavin78

For those that helped me out in my old thread over the GTX680

I sent it back got a refund and now have a GTX 960 4gb on the way with a Corsair power supply 750w.

The desktop I use has an old Gigabyte motherboard pci express 2.0 while I know it will slow the GFX card down a bit vs pci express 3.0

and it also has an old 965 black edition which will probably throttle the card a bit as well but I can live with this.

However I am thinking of upgrading the whole system with a new motherboard bundle AMD again I'm looking to pay between £280-£450 and seen a couple of bundles.

If I was to transfer to a new motherboard and install my oem copy of windows should it just install ok? I had a huge problem a while back going from my windows 8 when Microsoft were selling it for £25 when first launched.

Had to get live chat support from the MS team to unlock it from the motherboard to transfer it to my laptop.

Just wondering if it were me or I would have to go through the same problem again?

I was thinking of selling my laptop to fund the desktop.

JJ_Egan

Your OEM is tied to the original machines hardware .

Fightsback

Why amd ?

It's ancient tech that runs hot, sucks wattage and gets hammered by Intel.

Get an i5 skylake processor with a 1151 mobo and 16gb ram which should be less then £300

Intel Core i5-6500 £150

16gb ddr4 ram £80

Decent socket 1151 board about £70

Gavin78

Not much of a difference between ddr 3 and 4 ram not enough to make a difference when gaming.

I have an intel core i7 x4 2.5ghz laptop with duel cards intel 4600 and gtx 860m.

Reason for going AMD cheaper can still do gaming with it and this day and age you don't really need to be running a titan 12gig card to get the best out of games.

My laptop is pretty noisy when gaming as it's in the living room so using the desktop on a night so wife doesn't moan over the noise

Fightsback

Gavin78 wrote: »

Not much of a difference between ddr 3 and 4 ram not enough to make a difference when gaming.

Yet, this will change as games get more demanding. If you are doing a refresh then do it with new tech and not the current AMD stuff that's out of the ark.

Gavin78 wrote: »

However I am thinking of upgrading the whole system with a new motherboard bundle AMD again I'm looking to pay between £280-£450 and seen a couple of bundles.

So if I have this right you are spending £280-£450 on an AMD bundle ?

What does this consist of ?

Gavin78

3XS Overclocked Bundle AMD OC15, AMD FX 8350 @ 4.6GHz, MSI 990FXA Gaming 3.1 , 8GB Corsair DDR3 £410



And


3XS Overclocked Bundle AMD OC10, AMD FX 6300 @ 4.4GHz, MSI 970A SLI Krait, 8GB Corsair DDR3 £280

Fightsback

Gavin78 wrote: »

3XS Overclocked Bundle AMD OC15, AMD FX 8350 @ 4.6GHz, MSI 990FXA Gaming 3.1 , 8GB Corsair DDR3 £410
And
3XS Overclocked Bundle AMD OC10, AMD FX 6300 @ 4.4GHz, MSI 970A SLI Krait, 8GB Corsair DDR3 £280

http://www.scan.co.uk/products/3xs-overclocked-bundle-amd-oc10-amd-fx-6300-44ghz-msi-970a-sli-krait-8gb-corsair-ddr3-be-quiet-dark-

http://www.scan.co.uk/products/3xs-overclocked-bundle-amd-oc15-amd-fx-8350-46ghz-msi-990fxa-gaming-31-8gb-corsair-ddr3-be-quiet-dar

Over heating, overpriced priced ancient rubbish.

Do not buy

I strongly advise you to go for an i5 skylake and a modern 1151 socket board

Edit

for £410 you could get a skylake i7-6700, 16gb ddr4 ram and Mobo.

The i7-6700 is faster than the FX8350 and does it in 65w as oppsed to 125w+ (the wattage of the FX8350 will be higher than 125w due to OC)

Gavin78

I'll have a look at that

Cycrow

no need to go for the skylake i7 if its mainly a gaming pc.

especially as for that money, you can get a haswell-E which would be better

Fightsback

Cycrow wrote: »

no need to go for the skylake i7 if its mainly a gaming pc.

especially as for that money, you can get a haswell-E which would be better

If he's going to refresh, might as well do it with latest featured board and CPU socket, agreed i7 is overkill and the 65w i5-6500 is a nice sweet spot. Worth putting 16gb in as games are getting more memory hungry and besides ram is cheap.