Chris Strnad
Stunt Coordinator
I'm running an interesting experiment related to this.DIY PC build is a solid weekend to assemble and get Windows booted. And then another month of scattered evening work to get all the software and drivers tuned and working.
My mom's PC was a first-gen i3 that was starting to have uptime issues. After making sure the backup was current and creating a vm replica on my server, I swapped in a new i5, mb & ram, and turned it on. Win10 did quietly complain about licensing when I went to look at the system properties, but the computer functioned. I removed the audio software from the old Asus board and installed the MSI drivers, then plugged in the new Win10 key (original install was a free Win7 upgrade.)
This was done 4-5 months ago...