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Offline Mayhem

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Re: AMD Mobo questions
« Reply #15 on: February 04, 2021, 07:47:57 PM »
Quote from: Drano on February 04, 2021, 05:34:20 PM
Tell me about it! I purposely didn't buy a video card in March knowing the new ones would be coming out in October and I'd just figure that out then. Then that launch happened! Maybe I'll be able to get a 4000 series in a couple of years? Lol

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Re: AMD Mobo questions
« Reply #16 on: February 05, 2021, 09:26:50 AM »
I saw that Mayhem. Now a new throttle that will be more reasonably priced is coming closer to a reality so my focus is there. There's really a greater need for that. Will get all the puzzle pieces eventually. The 2060 crushes AH totally and IL2 pretty well so it works for me at least.

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Re: AMD Mobo questions
« Reply #17 on: February 05, 2021, 11:38:06 AM »
After consideration, I've decided to stay with Intel for my CPU upgrade. Best Buy has a i7-1700K on sale for $344...more money for the chip but higher frequency on base & boost ends. The new mobo I'm using is a Gigabyte Z490 Vision G. A Noctua NHu12S fan cooler and 2x16 Ripjaw DDR4 3200 CL16 ram sticks complete the rebuild.

Is it required or advisable to do a clean install of Win10? If so, it may be a problem as I upgraded from W7 a couple years ago and have since lost the W7 product key. If the answer to the former question is yes, it it drivers that require the reinstall? Any way around that? I'm $140 over budget now and would be bummed to have to buy another copy of Win10.

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Re: AMD Mobo questions
« Reply #18 on: February 05, 2021, 12:02:06 PM »
Quote from: Max on February 05, 2021, 11:38:06 AM
After consideration, I've decided to stay with Intel for my CPU upgrade. Best Buy has a i7-1700K on sale for $344...more money for the chip but higher frequency on base & boost ends. The new mobo I'm using is a Gigabyte Z490 Vision G. A Noctua NHu12S fan cooler and 2x16 Ripjaw DDR4 3200 CL16 ram sticks complete the rebuild.

Is it required or advisable to do a clean install of Win10? If so, it may be a problem as I upgraded from W7 a couple years ago and have since lost the W7 product key. If the answer to the former question is yes, it it drivers that require the reinstall? Any way around that? I'm $140 over budget now and would be bummed to have to buy another copy of Win10.

TIA :salute

If you are signed into Microsoft, when you install win 10 in the new machine... just sign on to microsoft and it is activated. When I built my new machine I had another win 7 key and just used that as my old machine is now a server and still running.
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Re: AMD Mobo questions
« Reply #19 on: February 06, 2021, 07:23:39 AM »
And if you haven't been signed into Microsoft, there's plenty of neat little programs that will tell you the key. https://www.techradar.com/best/the-best-windows-10-product-key-finder gives some options. I've been using Belarc but it requires installing. So I gave the last on the list, FreePCaudit, a try and it really is fast! https://www.misutilities.com/free-pc-audit/index.html

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Re: AMD Mobo questions
« Reply #20 on: February 06, 2021, 09:14:21 AM »
Bizman for the win! ....again ;-)
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