should a cpu upgrade affect an oem license?

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hi

im planning on a new motherboard and ram soon alongside a move from vista basic 32 to HP64

i will initially have a OEM E6300 in the board to be getting on with and plan to upgrade the cpu to a q6600 or similar a few months down the line

will this hardware change affect my oem license?

as far as i understand i should be able to put the quad cpu in and the new copy of windows would just carry on working as normal

please correct me if i am mistaken so i can alter my plans accordingly
 
rjkoneill said:
will this hardware change affect my oem license?
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Hello rjkoneill, you are perfectly within the licensing terms of an OEM license to change any system component in your system apart from the motherboard. However, you may need to reactivate Windows Vista after a hardware change but if that is the case, just simply use the online process or if that fails, ring Microsoft up and they will happily reactivate your copy of Windows for you.

as far as i understand i should be able to put the quad cpu in and the new copy of windows would just carry on working as normal
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As far as I am aware, it will be as simple as that. :)
 
The worst you might have to do is reactivate over the automated phoneline, on the freephone number, takes all of 2 minutes.
 
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