Upgrading hardware and to Yosemite - advices

[emistral]

Hi all,

I have been using a hackintosh for the past 5 years and each time there was a new OSX version I simply reinstalled from scratch. I am currently running 10.9.5 and I am planning to update to Yosemite. But at the same time I have the opportunity to upgrade my HW. 10.9.5 is currently running on a i7 2600k and the corresponding MB. I am planning to switch to an i7 4790k + a Z97 MB.
However this time I don't want to reinstall everything from scratch. I have too many apps + data and I also would like to avoid spending a lot of time reinstalling all the apps, restoring data, etc. what are the problems I might encounter if I simply connect my HDD with 10.9.5 and boot the system? any chance that it will load the appropriate kexts? should I enter the boot loader and clear the cache so that the relevant kexts are loaded? or is it a too daunting task and it is better to reinstall Yosemite from scratch?

If I can boot my current config on a new HW, then I am assuming that upgrading to Yosemite should be straight forward?

The new config should be:
- MB gigabyte UD7 TH
- 16GB memory
- gigabyte gtx 660 3GB OC which is already running on my current config at 4k
- samsung 28D590 4k monitor which is also already working at 4k under 10.9.5
- current 512GB SDD crucial

Thanks for the help

any problem you guys my foresee with the above config?

 

[trs96]

You might look into using the migration assistant after you've clean
installed Yosemite. That's one possible option. Personally I always
clean install on new hardware that's a few generations newer and
then move my apps and data over manually. Forces me to delete
stuff I don't really use or need anymore.