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If I install a new processor, do I need to reinstall the OS

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Lol, broadening my horizons, read back through this thread, did I not mention taking this conversation into a real hardware forum?By the way NickN from Simforums.com has been a great source of information as far as FSX is concerned.
Look, you obviously are entitled to your own opinion, but please stop trying to make an argument by posting about things you lack personal experience in.It just makes you look silly.
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Look, you obviously are entitled to your own opinion, but please stop trying to make an argument by posting about things you lack personal experience in.It just makes you look silly.
Who's lacking in personal experience with this subject? Not me that's for sure, if anyone is looking silly it's you.
Who's lacking in personal experience with this subject? Not me that's for sure, if anyone is looking silly it's you.
dj-You seem like someone who has some knowledge...and debating such knowledge is a good thing.On the other hand I have had a night filled with complaints from other simmers about your posts, David has warned you to no avail, and you don't seem to be taking the hint.Frankly-I am trying to have a relaxing evening after a hard day of work with a little simming and checking these boards in between.Do you take the hint-or in the words of some recent controllers at jfk do we have to say "adios amigo"?Last hint....

Geofa

WANTED DEAD OR ALIVE-the best Flight Sim!

dj-You seem like someone who has some knowledge...and debating such knowledge is a good thing.On the other hand I have had a night filled with complaints from other simmers about your posts, David has warned you to no avail, and you don't seem to be taking the hint.Frankly-I am trying to have a relaxing evening after a hard day of work with a little simming and checking these boards in between.Do you take the hint-or in the words of some recent controllers at jfk do we have to say "adios amigo"?Last hint....
Thanks, Geofa, it's Friday night and my girlfriends anatomy takes presidence over debates with the kiddies here at AVSIM so go relax and I'll give it a break.
Thanks, Geofa, it's Friday night and my girlfriends anatomy takes presidence over debates with the kiddies here at AVSIM so go relax and I'll give it a break.
Good-hope it doesn't break... and the kiddies thing doesn't get you brownie points....

Geofa

WANTED DEAD OR ALIVE-the best Flight Sim!

Yes, oh saint UlfB, that was so not nice.We should never call advice that is posted as uninformed and obvious unexperienced -->noobish, there needs to be a much less harsh word for that, maybe we should chose BS or wack?Telling the OP and other people that read this post that they need to go through the headache to re-install the OS to simply change the video card or CPU of the same class in the same Mother Board for no reason other than what was -->read on a non hardware dedicated forum is what is not nice!
Thanks for your PM that you sent me:
Here, let me help you Mr. threatening police man.Your a Dick Head! Got it? Here, another one, your an &@($* Hole!Need any more quotes?
I have no answer to your question, but maybe some other simmer might help me out on this one.
Hey guys, the question I have for the gurus out there is this,I want to get the new 980 i7 processor to replace my i7 920, will I need to reinstall my OS afterwards, or will it just be good to go.I know I have to update my BIOS to take advantage of the 6 cores.Thanks
This thread has gotten out of hand, and the interesting thing is, it's always the same users.Anyway:If on Win7, as I am, you won't have to do a thing, much same like I did not have to. Went from P5Q Deluxe, E8600, 8800GT and 4GB of DDR2 RAM and 3 separate harddisks, to P6X58D, I7-920, GTX285, 6GB of DDR3 RAM and 3 new harddisks, without ANY reinstall. The system turned on like it was supposed to, then some chaos started, new hardware found etc... When it calmed down, I was in VGA mode, where I put the new chipset drivers and USB3 drivers for the new motherboard, in the end I updated the VGA drivers and voila. System running better and faster than before. Benchmarks have proven it.In the meantime, I took some time to "test" a new install, benchmarked it just for the sake of checking if reinstall would be needed, with both FS9 and FSX - I couldn't see ANY performance gain. For me, the pain of reinstalling everything (and I really have a lot) just doesn't cut it if I don't see the reason to do it.Only thing that was required reinstalling, if you can call it that, are activations of different addons, Windows and FS itself. Took me bout an hour to sort it all out.
Thanks for your PM that you sent me:
Gee it's funny how this this imbecile was asking for advice in the

I don't have any opinion wether djt01 or FlyingBits is right. It was my wish that my post #13 in this thread would end the discussion. I will once more post my suggestion and hope that this discussion will end right now:

Maybe a solution and end to this discussion could be:
  1. Benchmark your system.
  2. Install the new processor and fire up Windows. Restart windows a couple of times.
  3. Benchmark your system.
  4. Compare to your previous benchmark. Do you get the expected performance compared to other benchmarks of similar systems? If the system doesn't perform as expected - reinstall Windows.

My two cents :(

Gee it's funny how this this imbecile was asking for advice in the "Bufferpool" thread in the FSX section from Nick N, the same person that recommends reinstalling an OS after switching from Nvidia to ATI or vice-versa. What total BS, or is he just a wack job, lol?
...and with that you are whacked...

Geofa

WANTED DEAD OR ALIVE-the best Flight Sim!

...and with that you are whacked...
Geof,High season for trolls, huh? :(

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Thanks for your PM that you sent me:I have no answer to your question, but maybe some other simmer might help me out on this one.
Your is the wrong usage gramatically...I don't think he got banned for that though..

Geofa

WANTED DEAD OR ALIVE-the best Flight Sim!

Geof,High season for trolls, huh? :(
Unfortunately yes... :( I guess because the stakes are so high....

Geofa

WANTED DEAD OR ALIVE-the best Flight Sim!

Unfortunately yes... :( I guess because the stakes are so high....
:--)))

- PC Hardware: AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D //  Asus ROG Crosshair X870E HERO //  2x32Gb Corsair Dominator Titanium DDR5 6000MT/s CL30 //  ASUS ROG Strix GeForce RTX 4090 OC Edition // 4Tb Corsair NVMe M.2 MP600  //  Corsair 1600W PSU
Samsung Odyssey Arc 55" curved 165 Hz monitor.
- Simulator Hardware: VIRPIL Constellation Alpha Prime + VIRPIL VPC Universal Control Panel - #3 + MOZA AY210 Force Feedback Yoke + WINWING URSA MINOR 32 Throttle & PAC Metal + WINWING SKYWALKER Metal Rudder Pedals + WINWING Airbus FCU & EFIS + WINWING Boeing 3N PAP + WINWING MCDU-32 + WINWING PFP-4 + WINWING PFP 3-N + WINWING PFP-7. 

   

 

 

Your is the wrong usage gramatically...I don't think he got banned for that though..
Please advide on how to handle these kind of scenarios in the future! Any advice on how to address these kind of abuse in would be very much appreciated. English is not my native language. I cannot find any button in the PM-pages to report a message to the mods. What should I have done to handle this case in the correct way?

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