Switching from Intel to AMD with my CPU, Any OS or Driver problems to worry about?

[Sammwich]

Soon I will be switching from an Intel i5-4460 to an AMD Ryzen 1700x, i have heard that making the switch will more than likely give me some bugs, but what bugs would they be? Note that i will be using the same SSD boot drive from my old computer in my new one with some programs also installed on that SSD

Before Build
CPU - i5-4460
Board - Asus - B85M-G R2.0

New Build
CPU - Ryzen 1700x
Board - Asus - STRIX B350-F GAMING

Thank You, Sam

[tacoshy]

Well you should clean install windows and install the new drivers then. Then you don't have any issues. Simply switching the CPU and such without getting the new drivers will not work.

Note that you need fast DDR4 for Ryzen. They can't be used with DDR3.
Also don't go for a 1700X and B350, go for 2600X + B450.

[r.linder]

tacoshy님이 먼저 게시:

Well you should clean install windows and install the new drivers then. Then you don't have any issues. Simply switching the CPU and such without getting the new drivers will not work.

Note that you need fast DDR4 for Ryzen. They can't be used with DDR3.
Also don't go for a 1700X and B350, go for 2600X + B450.

Seconded.

Don't need a Ryzen 5 2600X though. The gap between the 2600 and 2600X is really small, for an extra 30$ that can be allocated elsewhere in the build. Both can be overclocked anyway, so you can bring the 2600 to the 2600X's speed and beyond that with overclocking, which can be more viable if you have that extra 30$ to your budget on a better cooler.
If you really want extra power, you're better off just going all the way with an 2700X.

[Autumn_]

tacoshy님이 먼저 게시:

Well you should clean install windows and install the new drivers then. Then you don't have any issues. Simply switching the CPU and such without getting the new drivers will not work.

Note that you need fast DDR4 for Ryzen. They can't be used with DDR3.
Also don't go for a 1700X and B350, go for 2600X + B450.

This.

And the 2600 is much cheaper than the 1700x, while performing pretty much the same.
And the 2600 can be overclocked, so it should allow even more headroom, only problem is you'll be down 2 cores and 4 threads, in most use cases, this isn't a problem, as gaming won't use that many yet.

And you're gonna need some 3,000-3,200mhz DDR4 RAM. Anything less will gimp Ryzen.

[[☥] - CJ -]

Unless your GPU can keep up with such a large upgrade you may want to reconsider to something that may allow a GPU upgrade as well.

[Sammwich]

My goal for this build is to be able to stream with at least decent settings, which my pc was able to do before but for some reason my current CPU is being dumb and maybe does like 1 frame a minute on stream, game was fine though. Been streaming with my GPU (listed below) recently which causes lag in games so this upgrade seemed like the best option with more cores and threads

tacoshy님이 먼저 게시:

Well you should clean install windows and install the new drivers then. Then you don't have any issues. Simply switching the CPU and such without getting the new drivers will not work.

Note that you need fast DDR4 for Ryzen. They can't be used with DDR3.
Also don't go for a 1700X and B350, go for 2600X + B450.

I should have probably stated along with this upgrade i bought 32GB of DDR4 Ram 3000hz, I honestly wasn't aware of the Ryzen 2 until after i bought the parts, idk if they would have still been in my price range though

Also should i do the clean install before i switch parts or after the build is complete?

☥ - CJ -님이 먼저 게시:

Unless your GPU can keep up with such a large upgrade you may want to reconsider to something that may allow a GPU upgrade as well.

I should have probably also stated that my GPU is a Gigabyte GTX 1060 6GB, idk if that makes a diffrence but yee

[GAMER DOWN]

Clean reinstall after the build is done and dont forget chipset drivers from your mobos site
Edit I've also got the 1060, but with 2600x, I'm more than satisfied with my cpu