System Build; I need someone to double check?

[KoF Ripsaw]

Also you can buy windows 7 off of ebay like I did, 99 for home

My comps specs will be (its being shipped)
i7 core 950
ASUS Sabertooth X58
G. skill 3x1gb running at 1600
HAF X
Caviar black 500gb from Western Digital
Bulk Optical drive
Sapphire Radeon HD 6870
Windows 7
850w PSU from Corsair.
If your interested ill give ya the links for this
also an anti-static wrist strap could help, and remember to have all the coords needed.
1230 bucks, 6870 and Windows from ebay.

 

[redfish]

uh... Newegg matches that price, and it's lower after combo discounts.

 

[KoF Ripsaw]

Oops Wrong info, the windows 7 is OEM on ebay too, oh well it still windows 7

 

[redfish]

I'd just get it from Newegg.

 

[KoF Ripsaw]

Too late, I got it 2 days ago on Wednesday, oops 3days now, its midnight -.- I just read how OEM is for System Builders only and apparently that excludes people like us who build these computers for our own personal use...

 

[redfish]

Uh... I'm fairly certain that OEM products are entirely legal for our use
I think that by "system builders only" it means people who built their own computers, as opposed to someone who bought a pre-built 5 years ago and wanted to put Win7 on it (who knows why).

 

[Trotter]

OEM is also available to the public and is meant to be used by those who build their own system. Technically retailers are only supposed to sell it with either a pre-built or along with the components needed to build a computer, but these regulations have been relaxed quite a bit over the last few years. OEM copies still carry the same restrictions as those that come from PC manufacturers in that they are tied to a single computer, period.

 

[KoF Ripsaw]

OEM is also available to the public and is meant to be used by those who build their own system. Technically retailers are only supposed to sell it with either a pre-built or along with the components needed to build a computer, but these regulations have been relaxed quite a bit over the last few years. OEM copies still carry the same restrictions as those that come from PC manufacturers in that they are tied to a single computer, period.

If my HDD crashes I still can install it to a new one right? The software doesnt include something so that you cant use it again after an install right? Its only just legal words correct?

This article was what I was refering to Is it OK to use OEM Windows on your own PC? Don't ask Microsoft | ZDNet

 

[redfish]

Read the little highlighted bit under the diagram. It says that if a person builds his own computer, he can use the OEM software because he is technically a "system builder".

 

[KoF Ripsaw]

Yes but they later destroyed all evidence of those documents. This article is informing but yet confusing...