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Hardware Upgrade Question(s)
Hi all.
I am wondering if some of you might be able to help me. I am going to be upgrading my current system (specs in bio) to the following hardware:
Motherboard: Asus M5A78L-M/USB3 mATX
CPU: AMD FX-4300 FOUR-CORE 3.8GHZ 8MB 95W
Memory: Kingston 8GB 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM X 2 for a total of 16 gig.
What I am wondering is if I can just upgrade the hardware, install the hard drive and boot up normally. Will Windows 10 recognize the new hardware and automatically load the drivers? I really do not want to to a re-install of of Windows and loose all of the other applications on the machine. I have roughly 500gb of programs and data on this hard drive.
I do have a new hard drive that I can use, but it currently has Windows 8.1 installed on it, but nothing else, just the operating system. It was also installed with my current configuration.
That hard drive that I want to keep is running a retail version of 8.1 and then upgraded to Windows 10.
Thanks for any help you can offer and I can post more information if needed.
Thanks in advance!