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Can I swap motherboards without re-installing Win7?
My current system is Win7-64 SP1 running in an ASUS P6T motherboard with i7-920 & 6GB RAM. My boot drive is a Samsung 840-Pro SSD.
I'm planning on building a new system with an ASUS P877-M board running an i7-3770S with 8GB RAM so I can get SATA3, USB3, a faster CPU, and a smaller form factor system. My thought was to just move all my drives as-is from my current system to the new one.
But if I do that will the new system boot OK? I'm not sure what dependency Win7 has on chipsets, or if there will be a difference (from the Win7 point of view) between my current i7-920 CPU and the i7-3770S my new system will have.
I am aware that Win7 itself will require re-validation because of Microsoft's fear that their precious OS has been installed on a 2nd system, but I have already checked with them on that and verified that my existing Product Key can be re-validated ok.