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Thanks for all the info in advance.

I'm about to upgrade my E6600 to Q6600, and I was wondering if anyone of you have any insight if this requires reinstall of my home premium 64-bit OEM? As far as I have understood correctly, the OEMs are tied to the motherboard (I have Asus P5N32-E SLI), so from licensing point of view this should not be a problem? What about Vista itself, can it run properly if I just slap the new CPU in place? Has someone actually done this?

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In case someone is wondering, you can just change the CPU without changes to Vista. Seems to work fine, one reboot required after first boot when Vista updated its drivers.


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