[quote name='gargus']Not anymore. There was a time upgrading alot of components, paticullary a motherboard caused problems between driver changes and registry entries but that doesnt hold as true anymore unless you have a OS so gunked up and full of crap before you do the swap. Swapping out the stuff and then doing a quick run with ccleaner in normal registry mode will take care of alot of potential problems. I dont advise that route as I prefer a complete wipe and load but to say it will automatically cause untold issues isnt true when it comes to windows 7 and its complete rebuild of the kernel system over older versions of windows. Win7 is surprisingly versatile and stable.
You can even run a windows repair while booting before windows comes up.
Ive done this twice to pc's because the person despite my explaining about backing up and reloading still wanted it that way so at their request and my warning I did it and had no issues and still havent months later. I tried it for the hell of it when I recently dropped a new corei7 cpu, mobo and ram into my game pc just to play with it and no problems. Not say that everyone will be problem free but saying that doing it is a automatic windows destroying experince is wrong.[/QUOTE]
Wow, Windows 7 didn't deactive? I read in a lot of other forums that W7 would lock up after changing the mobo.
I wish I could try this, but buying hundreds of dollars of computer components and then it not working is something Im not willing to do. Especially when I don't make much money.
I'll wait till Newegg's Black Friday and see what I can get.
I'll be hoping for a deal on Windows 7 Full
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For now I'll have to stick with my Dual Core Athlon II, 3 gigs of DDR2 ram, A Radeon 5670, a Micro ATX mobo and a Micro ATX case.
The reason I want to build a computer is because this computer I got was pre-built... I want my own computer, custom made to my preferences.