Changing mobo, reinstall OS?

I have MSI 790FX-GD70 with 8GB RAM DDR3 1333MHz, Phenom II X4 945 and Windows 7 Ultimate x64.
I want to upgrade my pc so I bought MSI 970A-G46 mobo. Do I really have to reinstall Windows in order to work fine? If yes, why is this important?

For few reasons, (even from my own experience) yes you have to:
First of all, you will need to completely change drivers (also BIOS defaults will be a little different) which might not let Windows load properly.
Then, your windows... will just not start properly if the board is completely different. I have experienced "hang" or blue screen when I took 500gb HDD from my previous Gigabyte (mobo) AMD PC into this MSI Intel PC with windows on it. It just freezed at some point while loading and that was it.
So if you don't want any incompatibilities, I think you should reinstall Windows. (DO BACK UP OF FILES FIRST )

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MOVED: Want to change mobo

This topic has been moved to MSI All-In-One and barebones PC series.
https://forum-en.msi.com/index.php?topic=161262.0

No, except for a Hetis G41 replacement mobo. To get one ask MSI. >>How to contact MSI.<<
You can't upgrade Hetis G41 with a new mobo. Get a new barebone or setup a custom build machine. There is no real upgrade possible with the Hetis components as it uses outdated Core2/DDR2 so you'd need to upgrade anything else anyway.

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