Format HD after CPU Upgrade?

[elrasho]

Should I format my HD before/after I upgrade from an Athlon 64 3200 to a Opteron 180?

Just to make sure there are no driver conflicts and things like that

 

[Asus]

If you have any AMD drivers for the CPU you could uninstall those first. But really you shouldn't need to do anything. It's not like you are swapping your motherboard out.

 

[Qonfused]

I did a complete overhaul (replaced mobo, CPU, and RAM) and didn't have to reformat my HD.

 

[giant384]

it depends on the motherboard you have. like i just swapped my nforce4 for a nforce650i Sli and i didnt need to format,but when i switched out my VIA board to the nforce4 then it wouldnt let me do it. so similar chipset means it will work with an updated chipset in the same series.

 

[DEATH eVADER]

The only time when I did have to reformat was when I replaced my graphics card, because I couldn't be bothered to swap them out again and unistall previous drivers