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Okay, so I just swapped to a new motherboard and now my windows says it is not activated. I cannot customize the PC but other than that it's working just fine. Will windows keep working like this, or will it stop working at some point? Is there a fix to this? Btw I'm running windows 10 which has been upgraded from windows 8.1.

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do you have your old win 8.1 key? if so i'd suggest a clean install of win 8.1 and another upgrade to 10 to get a win10 key on that MB. unfortunately, the MB is the one thing the OS is bound to. 

We can't Benchmark like we used to, but we have our ways. One trick is to shove more GPUs in your computer. Like the time I needed to NV-Link, because I needed a higher HeavenBench score, so I did an SLI, which is what they called NV-Link back in the day. So, I decided to put two GPUs in my computer, which was the style at the time. Now, to add another GPU to your computer, costs a new PSU. Now in those days PSUs said OCZ on them, "Gimme 750W OCZs for an SLI" you'd say. Now where were we? Oh yeah, the important thing was that I had two GPUs in my rig, which was the style at the time! They didn't have RGB PSUs at the time, because of the war. The only thing you could get was those big green ones. 

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5 hours ago, VioDuskar said:

do you have your old win 8.1 key? if so i'd suggest a clean install of win 8.1 and another upgrade to 10 to get a win10 key on that MB. unfortunately, the MB is the one thing the OS is bound to. 

Nope, don't have the product key :(

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my cousin has been using windows 10 without activating over 6 months lol. still works with some limitations(doesn't stop him from playing and... whatever 14 year olds do) https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/950929

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3 minutes ago, Danscu said:

Nope, don't have the product key :(

well, you shouldnt have any issues, everything should still work, minus some tweaks and tricks. 

We can't Benchmark like we used to, but we have our ways. One trick is to shove more GPUs in your computer. Like the time I needed to NV-Link, because I needed a higher HeavenBench score, so I did an SLI, which is what they called NV-Link back in the day. So, I decided to put two GPUs in my computer, which was the style at the time. Now, to add another GPU to your computer, costs a new PSU. Now in those days PSUs said OCZ on them, "Gimme 750W OCZs for an SLI" you'd say. Now where were we? Oh yeah, the important thing was that I had two GPUs in my rig, which was the style at the time! They didn't have RGB PSUs at the time, because of the war. The only thing you could get was those big green ones. 

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7 minutes ago, Danscu said:

Okay, so I just swapped to a new motherboard and now my windows says it is not activated. I cannot customize the PC but other than that it's working just fine. Will windows keep working like this, or will it stop working at some point? Is there a fix to this? Btw I'm running windows 10 which has been upgraded from windows 8.1.

If you call Microsoft and explain that you had to switch to a new motherboard because the old one was damaged (power surge or something), they might transfer the license to the new mobo on a one-time basis.

I enjoy buying junk and sinking more money than it's worth into it to make it less junk.

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