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    DOCTOR

    Mar 31, 2020 6 minutes

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    Upgrade Advice

    I have a Gigabyte GA-H67A-UD3H-B3 motherboard with an Intel Core i7 Sandy Bridge (2700K I think), Zotac GT610 graphics with 2GB of 64-bit DDR3, and a 500W supply. I would like to upgrade the motherboard and CPU—everything else is fine. How do I change the motherboard and get it to boot from the existing 1TB SSD? I mostly do audio and video editing. Any suggestions on motherboard and CPU?

    –Mike Rockwell

    THE DOCTOR RESPONDS: Things are a little more complicated when it comes to swapping out motherboards. You’re effectively building a new PC, albeit cannibalizing large parts of your old one in the process. Windows 10 can survive major hardware changes like this—the Doc has seen first-hand how a new AMD X470 PC was able to boot an old Ivy Bridge Windows install, settling down after a few reboots, driver updates, and blue screens of death, with apparently no lingering ill effects.

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