Hi Zanatsu,

Upgrading a motherboard, processor and RAM will not erase your data as it is all stored on the hard drive. As long as everything goes smoothly, you can upgrade those components and have all your data still intact!

Unless absolutely necessary, I wouldn't reinstall the OS as it wouldn't have any benefit for you. If you have to, create another hard drive partition to put the new OS on, so you can keep all your old data, like video games, on the system.

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