Question How is Win10 with new hardware?

[IBMJunkman]

If I remember right Win98 and XP really did not like booting up with a different CPU and mobo from the system it was initially installed on.

Is Win10 any better?

 

[DrMrLordX]

If you're talking about moving an old installation to an entirely new machine, generally speaking: don't.

 

[burninatortech4]

Move your files to external media. Windows doesn't like hardware swaps with the same Windows install. It will work (mostly) but I wouldn't trust anything important on the drive until I had a clean install.

 

[Brainonska511]

I've swapped CPUs on a Windows 10 install (Ryzen 2600 --> Ryzen 5600X) and simultaneously swapped the GPU (RX 570 --> RX 6600) on my wife's computer and it was fine. However, I was going to be doing a reinstall when I got around to it, both for moving to Windows 11 for longer-term support, and to move the installation from a SATA SSD to a new NVME drive.

If I was doing anything with swapping motherboards, I'd definitely go for a fresh install. It could be fine, but it seems like a fresh install could be a good way to just avoid any gremlins that might crop up from such swapping and no re-installation.

 

[balloonshark]

I upgraded my PC this week with the intention of installing Windows 11 on a new SSD. When I booted up the first time I forgot to remove my old Windows 10 SSD which I was going to wipe after I confirmed the new hardware and Windows 11 worked. Windows 10 booted up fine with the new hardware. Yesterday I even booted up into it on purpose to retrieve a backup config for one of my apps. Both times I didn't hang out long so no idea if everything worked as advertised.

 

[McLovin]

10 and 11 can handle the differences better than previous OSes. However, if you are changing hardware, like the MB/CPU, then you should really be doing a bare metal install of Windows.