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How long are we good for using W7 Pro 64bit? MAK vs OEM?
I just bought a pretty sweet used system, its an old i7-920, but has an OC motherboard, ASUS P6T in the X58 chipset and LGA-1366. Its got 2x 500GB 7200rpm HDD's. I plan to put in a 6 core 12 thread X56xx Xeon chip.
Anyway the issue I am having, is when I found the W7 key on this system it was a MAK, on the case its an OEM sticker. Something doesnt match up here.
The guy I bought the system from is an IT guy, but something doesnt seem right.
The MAK key I get just says BBBBB-BBBBB-BBBBB-BBBBB which is that way on purpose.
The only thing that comes to mind, and is a bit of work is to clone the HDD of the O/S, then install one of my spare HDD and try installing the OEM W7. But I got a feeling it will be a lot of work for nothing.