new hardware, fresh install?

[blitzgp]

On older version of windows, whenever you upgraded hardware, it was always best/mandatory to do a fresh install of windows. Is this still the case for 7? I really dont want to reinstall windows (mainly because of all the gigs i would have to download because I deleted the install files that are on my windows drive), but I dont wanna gimp my performance because something didnt get detected.

 

[Tews]

Its not mandatory .... just make sure that you have updated your new hardware to the latest drivers...