I just assembled a SUPER cheap gaming pc for a family member to use as a secondary gaming pc at her moms house. She has a i5 gaming pc at her dads.
So since I have a TON of used parts I offered to build a cheap pc.
Only new parts are a cheap Chinese X79 M-ATX Machinist branded board, a mint green color case ( her major requirement was that it be "Pretty" lol) and a non modular Thermaltake 700 w power supply.
I went with that board because I could use some unused server stuff on it, ram and cpu, and it has onboard USB 3.0.
I popped off the chipset cooler and found out it is actually a c602 chipset.
So I built it and installed the drivers off the cd that came with the board, then the latest Nvidia Game ready driver then rebooted then installed Steam and linked it to her account.
So next I started thinking about activation, but when I dug out my list of Windows 7 keys from when I had a MS Technet account to see if any would activate I realized it was already activated.
Used parts:
E5-2643 V1 cpu, GTX 1060 video card, 16 gigs of DDRR ecc ram, Cooler master 212 Evo cpu cooler, Samsung 500 Gb SSD, 400 gb hard drive as a secondary drive, three lighted fans.
The only part that came from a Windows 10 activated pc was the video card.
The SSD had Windows 10 on it, fresh install over Ubuntu on a older laptop but was never activated and would always nag to get me to activate it.
I'm confused, I'm lucky I guess but I just am trying to understand what happened.
Edit: Also I installed using a offline account so no linked login to Microsoft.
So since I have a TON of used parts I offered to build a cheap pc.
Only new parts are a cheap Chinese X79 M-ATX Machinist branded board, a mint green color case ( her major requirement was that it be "Pretty" lol) and a non modular Thermaltake 700 w power supply.
I went with that board because I could use some unused server stuff on it, ram and cpu, and it has onboard USB 3.0.
I popped off the chipset cooler and found out it is actually a c602 chipset.
So I built it and installed the drivers off the cd that came with the board, then the latest Nvidia Game ready driver then rebooted then installed Steam and linked it to her account.
So next I started thinking about activation, but when I dug out my list of Windows 7 keys from when I had a MS Technet account to see if any would activate I realized it was already activated.
Used parts:
E5-2643 V1 cpu, GTX 1060 video card, 16 gigs of DDRR ecc ram, Cooler master 212 Evo cpu cooler, Samsung 500 Gb SSD, 400 gb hard drive as a secondary drive, three lighted fans.
The only part that came from a Windows 10 activated pc was the video card.
The SSD had Windows 10 on it, fresh install over Ubuntu on a older laptop but was never activated and would always nag to get me to activate it.
I'm confused, I'm lucky I guess but I just am trying to understand what happened.
Edit: Also I installed using a offline account so no linked login to Microsoft.
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