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Originally Posted by Bikerjack
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Question - I wanted to avoid reinstalling everything - I have Win 7 on one drive and XP on the other running 1946 very well. Can they simply copy all the data from the HDD onto the new SSD and can I get away with just one SSD and be able to switch from a Win 7 partition to an XP partition? In which case I would need a higher capacity?
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I wouldn’t recommend this – the new board and cpu will require different drivers to your current installation, and Windows will ask for re-activation because of this. It can be done (I have done something similar with Win7 before), but a fresh install will be a great deal better.
XP will most likely only work if you go through the installation repair routine, which entails starting the repair install on the old system, switching it off when it re-boots and change to the new machine with the same HDD, start it up again and let it continue. You would then need to use a disk cloning utility to copy the XP partition onto the new drive, preferably into the first partition of the drive. Win7 can be cloned onto the second partition, but you may need to edit the boot image if it isn’t currently on the same partition on the old drive.
The above should work, but you’ll only know on completion. In the end, there are no shortcuts to a good installation.
And I agree with Warhound about the power supply - depending how much you overclock, BD can be very power hungry, and a 750W will be insufficient (are you sure that you really want a second HD6970?)