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Between OEM and non-OEM software (specifically MS Windows)?

 

There is quite a price difference between OEM verison of Windows 7 and the ones that are not OEM. I am looking to make a gaming rig to get around the new console wars coming up, and 99.99% of all PC games are made to run on Windows. OEM versions are less expensive, but say somethign about needing a support tech for the end-user. So I'm lost. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

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The OEM versions are bound to the harware and the non-OEM version is bound to the product key.

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He is the hero this forum deserves but not the one it needs right now.So we'll hunt him because he can take it because he is not our hero he is a silent guardian 


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Between OEM and non-OEM software (specifically MS Windows)?

 

There is quite a price difference between OEM verison of Windows 7 and the ones that are not OEM. I am looking to make a gaming rig to get around the new console wars coming up, and 99.99% of all PC games are made to run on Windows. OEM versions are less expensive, but say somethign about needing a support tech for the end-user. So I'm lost. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

there is no difference apart from the fact that oem is made for system builders so basically it is made to be installed on a freshly built pc that never had an os

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