Help with computer I'm building

[tekzilla41]

Get the last of the three Video cards you had listed, its the EVGA 7800gt that is factory overclocked and has a copper heatsink, worth the $.

 

[AliasX]

Yah, but it is definetly not in my budget to do that. The only reason this one worked out was because it came with the motheboard.

 

[JustAnAverageGuy]

Originally posted by: oynaz
If you do not use your Dell computer, you do not have to pay for a new Windows XP. Install your old XP on your new computer, and be done with it.

Edit: That is how it works in Europe at least.

According to the Microsoft EULA, it is not legal to transfer OEM licenses between computers. You can do that with a retail copy if you uninstall/reformat the first computer first though.

Even if he reformatted his Dell PC, it's still not legal. If he keeps the original XP on his Dell and installs it on the new computer, that's piracy.

His new computer wouldn't take the dell OEM license key either, as those are BIOS locked.

 

[AliasX]

I am using the hard drive from my computer I am posting on right now, and putting it into my new computer. This computer I am on right now will be no longer.

 

[JustAnAverageGuy]

Originally posted by: AliasX
I am using the hard drive from my computer I am posting on right now, and putting it into my new computer. This computer I am on right now will be no longer.

Again, Microsoft (Dell) OEM licenses are mostly tied to the motherboard and their components, which means you'd have to reactive after you moved it. Even then, you'd have to uninstall quite a number of drivers/devices for you to even be able to coldswap the drive and have it actually boot up.

Even despite the illegality, you can't just take one drive out of one computer, plug it into another, and have it just work picture perfect.