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Double Punctuation
Dec 30, 2009

Ships were made for sinking;
Whiskey made for drinking;
If we were made of cellophane
We'd all get stinking drunk much faster!

Xinlum posted:

Is it recommended/needed to reinstall the OS after switching the mobo and CPU?

CPU? Doesn't matter that much, as long as it's the same brand (you should really only be getting Intel, anyway). If you're on integrated graphics, you may have to gently caress with the drivers a bit, but it shouldn't be a big deal.

Motherboard? You should reinstall unless it's the exact same model. How much gets hosed up depends on how much changed, and you can't really tell ahead of time what's different between different models. Reinstalling would be faster than fixing every single driver that breaks.

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