I searched but I didn’t find any answers.
Yes I know, it might be a silly question that I already know the answer to, but it’s fair to ask…
I come from a Ryzen 7 5800X and I bought a Ryzen 9 9950X and MSI X670E motherboard, so I’ll changing architecture.
Do I need to reinstalling Garuda?
Just try, maybe you must upd your system with chroot via live ISO.
But, backup needed files, .config, .local. … 
Did the “old” RAM works on this MB?
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Nope, it will mount ddr5.
My backup is on external drives and cloud 
konsave already done.
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I wouldn’t worry so much about it with Linux, it usually works w/o any issues.
The question is more what your Windows thinks of the action 
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I liked the “just try” answer 
that’s what I would have done anyway.
So I’ll come back next week when (I hope) the parts arrive, so maybe it can help someone with the same doubts as me.
@nepti
I already know I’ll have to reinstall that piece of junk…
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I would make sure to transfer all relevant settings from the old BIOS to the new BIOS beforehand.
With Linux, you will have to do the LAN/WLAN/BT drivers yourself, and maybe the audio too.
But hey, the longer the list of issues gets, the more likely you are to opt for a clean install. It depends on whether you want a functioning system as quickly as possible or whether you want to do some troubleshooting (which might teach you a thing or two).
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The desire to learn is always there (even at 47 years old) and also to get involved.
Then, we are talking about a home system, certainly not a server, so it costs nothing to waste 15 minutes to reinstall a perfectly working system (Bill, did you hear? 15 minutes… 15!!!)
I want to see how he reacts to such a sudden change… 
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It would be nice if you finished everything to post the garuda-inxi here. 
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I will…if I’ll survive 
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My experience has always been good swapping an old drive into a new system with Linux.
The one issue that is pretty much guaranteed to cause problems is switching from AMD to Nvidia hardware (and vice versa) with regards to your graphics drivers.
Even when switching graphics hardware it can usually be made a painless switch if you uninstall the proprietary Nvidia driver right before removing the drive from the old system.
It will be more difficult if you don’t uninstall the proprietary graphics driver before swapping hardware. If you forgot that step then you will need to chroot from a live environment to fix your driver mismatch issues.
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The graphics card will remain the same (4070ti) do you think there will still be problems with the integrated graphics?
Seine Glaskugel ist gerade zum polieren in der Werkstatt
But with GPU the build in is off line, IIRC
Not really. Your old Ryzen 7 5800X didn’t have an iGPU. The Ryzen 9 9950X has an iGPU - if you don’t need it then just disable it in the BIOS. So you have no potential issues with prime, KISS principle 
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after completing the order last week, this morning the seller tells me that they are out of CPUs.
They called me and said they had warehouse problems during the Christmas period and that the stock was wrong, so the CPU is postponed to next week 
…just to keep the thread open…
I was wondering how you got this CPU so quickly.
Do you really want to put up with 170 watts or more?
I’m not even maxing out the 5950X 
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I particularly like dealers who initially offer everything but then can’t deliver. The main thing is that the customer is hooked first.
Of course it’s hard for me to judge from here, it’s just what was going through my head.
Keep your/my fingers crossed that everything turns out well.
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The retailer is one of the most reliable in Italy and has truly competitive prices, lower than Amazon (€670 compared to 700 on AMZ), plus an MSI X670E motherboard (230 instead of 250).
My Noctua NH-D15 easily holds off 170W
However, stock problems happen to everyone, even here, especially when you do inventory.
In fact, they were correct in informing me first by email on Monday and today with a phone call asking if I wanted a full refund or to wait until next week.
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I had also changed from “old” to “new”
Linux → equal which Linux → new install → chroot or what ever → no chance to run.
You can`t change the systemfiles by hand.
(example your machine-id, hardware ids, peripherals, irq/api handling…e.t.c)
The same with M$ only a fresh install is possible
Before you install your Bs/s update your bios..
This is a must for this motherboard + these cpu. The motherboard is “older” then the “cpu.”
Perhaps you must do this without cpu inside (it depends on the BIOS version)
Yes, AGESA 1.2.0.2 was released last September 30th for CCD lag, so I assume the bios is already updated to the next patches.
Anyway, I will update it to the latest at the first boot
I was well aware of the problem.
Another doubt that is coming to me is about the new Nvidia 50 series cards… will there be driver support right away? I don’t know how it works… 
This GPU need a new branch. How fast ?
We will see this in february.
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