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Upgrading MOBO and CPU with different chipsets
Current PC info:
Windows 7 OS; AMD Athlon 64x2 Dual Core Processor 6000+ 3.00 GHz; MSI K9A2GM-FIH; 6 GB ram; 750 PS, MSI GeForce GTX 650 Ti; and a 500 GB HD. This, of course, runs on an AMD chipset.
I am upgrading my system with MB MSI|Z87M GAMING MATX R; CPU INTEL|CORE I5 4590 3.3G 6M R; and
MEM 8G|KINGSTON HX318C10F/8 R. This change will, of course, change my chipset to Intel.
I have been researching the web about how difficult this will be to do, since I'm really not certain on how to proceed. What all do I need to uninstall from my system before making this major change?
How will this affect my Windows 7 installation, that I just recently upgraded to? I've checked out Microsoft's dealing on this and being money hungry as they are they consider a new motherboard as a new system. They claim if you buy a system with the OS already installed that you don't have rights to the OS, but I had my system custom built and bought my OS software for the build, which at the time was Windows XP. I just recently upgrading to Windows 7, when XP went obsolete. I know I'm probably not making a lot of sense, but I don't want to have to buy a new OS just to upgrade an outdated system.
Any links or suggestions on how to make this an easy change over will be much appreciated. Everything I have found so far is so out of date that I can't be certain what would be the proper solution for me.
Thanks for you time.