The license might still work if the last time you swapped motherboard was years ago. Still, you will want to reinstall Windows. A different motherboard means different hardware that uses different drivers. You are just begging for general instability, crashes and bugs otherwise.
It sounds like Naughty Dogs Engine was terribly optimized to run on PCs since they'd been working on playstation hardware only for like 20 years. Sad that such a great game had to release in this state, and hopefully it can be fixed. And, I assume Naughty Dog is trying to get the engine in a condition it will work well to run on PC since I would not be shocked if the Last of Us Factions release will launch day of on PC too since live service games need a large install base. Granted, with this being such an important release for Sony given the games prestige and the hype of the show you really wish they handed it off to Nixxes who have done a good job with Sony's other games that were using proprietary engines.
There's a good chance that it'll boot up, I think. Windows should detect and load drivers for the new hardware (and not load the drivers for the hardware that's now missing). That said, it might still be better to have a fresh Windows. What you could do is boot up your old Windows, then go into Settings, search for "Reset this PC" and choose the option to keep your personal files. You'll have to re-install all of your apps, but your files on the desktop and other profile folders (Documents, Music, etc.) will be kept.
Yeah it's clear the game was not given the proper attention it needed, in the new DF video about the game you can see that at the medium texture setting (which is the best you can do with an 8GB GPU at 1440p) there are moments where the textures resemble the switch version of Sonic Frontiers. The game just does not run as it should when using hardware of a similar level to the PS5. It's a shame Nixxes wasn't involved but I'm sure they are busy with something else like Ghost of Tsushima or Ratchet and Clank.
It depends entirely on your budget and what games you want to play. If you were planning on going lower end and mostly playing older/indie games or emulators, the steam deck is a good choice. Otherwise I would go for a desktop.
If it's unopened and you can sell it as "brand new," you can get $300 for it on eBay, minus the 13.25% selling fee, so $260 actual. That means that it would cost you about $190 more to upgrade to the 7800X3D. So, it depends if that's worth it to you or not, which could come down to whether you play the types of games and at the resolutions that the difference would be felt in.
It looks like pre-owned 7700Xs still sell for as much as $290 on eBay, and you should be able to get close to that by mentioning that you used it only once. So, after seller's fees, you'd be looking at $200 more to replace it with the 7800X3D.
I would buy a B650 motherboard. You don't really need the extra bells and whistles like PCI Express 5.0 and you will not be overclocking a CPU like the 7800X3D. A gaming PC just needs good thermals and making sure that the system is able to run at it's full potential.
AMD recommends at least an 850W PSU for the 6950 XT (for their reference model, so a partner card could be higher). They recommend at least a 750W PSU for the 7900 XT. The 7800 XT will probably need 650-700W.
Yeah, I have a 750W PSU and have already written off the idea of upgrading to the 6950 XT because I'd need to buy a new PSU. For about the same total cost, I could just buy the 7900 XT and not buy a new PSU.
Asus are apparently releasing fixes so you might be fine.
