chrisdglong
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I have windows 8 installed. If I upgrade my CPU from the 3820 to say a 4930K, will it make me reactivate Windows?
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Re: Upgrading CPU, but not motherboard... Will it revoke my Windows license?
2013/09/19 14:38:07
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you can change so many things before windows freaks out ive done mobo cpu swaps that use same ram gpu and etc and been fine it just depends on what you have changed in the past
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Re: Upgrading CPU, but not motherboard... Will it revoke my Windows license?
2013/09/19 14:43:34
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Just because it freeks out, doesn't mean you cant reactivate it. If it does give you a hard time, it should pop up a window to do a phone based activation.
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Re: Upgrading CPU, but not motherboard... Will it revoke my Windows license?
2013/09/19 18:59:18
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I just swapped my i7-920 for a i7-980x ~2 weeks ago. I did have to reactivate (Windows7 x64 Professional) - but other than a button press and it 'phoning home', all went smoothly.
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Re: Upgrading CPU, but not motherboard... Will it revoke my Windows license?
2013/09/19 19:07:49
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I went from a 3970X to a 3930K and I did not have to re-activate Windows 7.
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Re: Upgrading CPU, but not motherboard... Will it revoke my Windows license?
2013/09/20 05:20:40
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I just upgraded to a i7 3770K from a i5 3570K without having to mess with the operating system. What windows should do is recognize the change and need to restart to add the CPU change in the device manager. If it does not recognize in the device manager, you just uninstall the processor and restart the computer, it should automatically recognize it and install the correct drivers. I had to do that on Windows 7 when installing a i7 950 from a i7 920.
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Re: Upgrading CPU, but not motherboard... Will it revoke my Windows license?
2013/10/12 16:09:01
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Highly unlikely to trigger it if you do a drop in CPU upgrade to your current motherboard. I've never had it happen.
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Re: Upgrading CPU, but not motherboard... Will it revoke my Windows license?
2013/10/12 17:00:22
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I went from an i7-3970X to a i7-4960X on my X79 Dark and I Did Have to re-activate Windows 7.
post edited by bcavnaugh - 2013/10/12 17:06:28
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Re: Upgrading CPU, but not motherboard... Will it revoke my Windows license?
2013/10/12 17:19:04
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Just do the phone based activation. I've never had an issue after that.
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Re: Upgrading CPU, but not motherboard... Will it revoke my Windows license?
2015/04/08 00:02:54
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Has anyone gone from a Q6600 to a QX9650 without reactivation?
My activated software is:
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Re: Upgrading CPU, but not motherboard... Will it revoke my Windows license?
2015/04/08 07:37:43
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MWHDVideo
Has anyone gone from a Q6600 to a QX9650 without reactivation?
My activated software is:
Windows 7 64
Adobe CS6
Autodesk Maya 2015
Windows isn't a problem to reactivate. I have done it a few times using the telephone option when I RMA a motherboard and it doesn't take more then 10 minutes. I can't say about the other two items.
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Re: Upgrading CPU, but not motherboard... Will it revoke my Windows license?
2015/04/08 17:29:10
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I've swapped RAM before when still having Windows 7 installed, along with adding a new HDD, a GPU upgrade, and I didn't see Windows complaining about it...but I've wondered if a CPU would have done it. Something to think about.
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Re: Upgrading CPU, but not motherboard... Will it revoke my Windows license?
2015/04/08 17:59:31
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I've added 2 new SSDs, a GTX680 and upgraded the RAM, all one at a time, and no activation issues with Windows, but the CPU is about to be upgraded from a Q6600 to a QX9650 and that's where I wonder if it's going to mess with the activations of various software. My Dolby surround encoder is, I think, on its second activation and 3 is the limit. Surcode folks say to buy another license, so I'm hoping the CPU swap goes under the radar.
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Re: Upgrading CPU, but not motherboard... Will it revoke my Windows license?
2015/04/08 21:25:03
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I went from an Q8300 to a Q9550 with no issues . Now when I had to rma my mobo it recognized I changed it (a direct replacement 780i board) it took just a button push .
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Re: Upgrading CPU, but not motherboard... Will it revoke my Windows license?
2015/04/08 21:40:27
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Heck activation is painless, but ive done it before on XP easily enough
AThlon 64 3200 replaced it with an X2 3800, at the same time went from 1 to 2gb of Ram, and upgraded to a 7600Gt, I did not have to reactivate.
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Re: Upgrading CPU, but not motherboard... Will it revoke my Windows license?
2015/04/09 05:22:52
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I replaced my motherboard with a Fatal1ty Z97 Killer yesterday while my MSI board is being RMA'd and clicked 'Acivate online now' and it went through without using the telephone.
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Re: Upgrading CPU, but not motherboard... Will it revoke my Windows license?
2015/04/09 18:12:50
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I created this thread a LONG time ago. I can't believe that I never came back to post the results. I did NOT have to reactivate Windows. I'm sure that if I swapped motherboards it would make me reactivate though.
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Re: Upgrading CPU, but not motherboard... Will it revoke my Windows license?
2015/04/10 08:16:47
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As far as software other than Windows it will depend if it gets its activation info from Windows or not. I have moved this installation of Windows to 3 or 4 motherboards and none of my other software needed to be reactivated making me think it gets linked to my Windows license and will not need reactivation as long as it is installed on this copy of Windows.
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Re: Upgrading CPU, but not motherboard... Will it revoke my Windows license?
2015/04/10 11:38:13
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My concern is if one activates, they may all activate, which would mean an avalanche of applications to activate again and a whole afternoon looking up numbers and calling customer support for every vendor. I hope that doesn't happen!
I'm waiting on the SDRAM and the CPU is out for delivery, so I'll be doing the change in a few days. I plan to put the RAM in first, then booth system and all apps to 'inform' them of the change, so when the CPU change happens, it won't be multiple items changed since last boot.
It's interesting that some CPU swaps trigger activation while others don't. I wonder why that is? Seems 50/50 percentage based upon online research.
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Re: Upgrading CPU, but not motherboard... Will it revoke my Windows license?
2015/04/10 12:47:13
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When I changed my i7-920 & Evga X58 SLI LE for an X5650 & Evga X58 Classified 4-Way SLI I didn't have to reactivate windows. But that was probably due to the mobo's having the same chipset and the windows install was only a few days old. I'm running Windows 8.1 Pro 64bit.
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