Ok, so I have the CPU, motherboard and the 8GB RAM that was on Newegg's shellshocker deal recently. I ran a backup of my SSD that has the OS installed, along with the partition on one of my regular drives that I have all my other programs installed on. I haven't upgraded a CPU/motherboard combo in 10-15 years and that required a complete reinstall. I have looked around and seen that some people recommend running sysprep then changing everything, starting and letting it do it's thing. However, other people say that with Windows 7 you do not need to really worry about that, as it will automatically figure everything out itself once you turn it on. I know how to sysprep, since I did go to school for network communication specialist, but if I don't need to, I would rather not since it takes extra time and I would lose personalization. Not to mention, if it doesn't work, the pain to try to redo everything. So, any recommendations from the AOD community?