Ensure you have the correct components and follow proper guidelines for a safe upgrade.
Ensure you have the correct components and follow proper guidelines for a safe upgrade.
I need some advice so I'm digging through the collective knowledge here. I got myself a new motherboard for Christmas and I'll be upgrading it soon. In the past, I've thrown all my parts together assuming it works (like on my first build), and it did... but this time I want to make sure I'm doing it right. With that being said, I'd like to know: 1) Should I go ahead and update my BIOS straight out of the box, or should I only update it if I run into a compatibility problem or some other issue? 2) Can I go ahead and slap all of my drives in my new board and take off like nothing happened, or will I have to fiddle with BIOS/Windows settings first? I have my computer backed up through Backblaze but really don't want to have to go through the pain of reinstalling Windows and restoring everything if I don't have to. Thanks for the help! I have: Ryzen 5 2600x ROG Strix x570-I (old board) ASUS Prime x570-Pro (new board) Corsair Force NVME SSD (boot drive) Samsung 970 Evo (Empty, used as a cache drive for video editing) Seagate Barracuda 2TB (Steam library and other stuff) GTX 1660 Super OC Windows 10 Home (commercial copy, not OEM, activated)