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I was going to do some over clocking on my new motherboard, but I'll have to give that a miss just in case I cook the darn thing and I have to buy a new board AND a new Windows 10 license, it's becoming a costly business this gaming.
Well what a "Demo" is than ? It's either limited use for some time or full use for limited time. You can have W10 Enterprise with full capabilities for 90 days, after that goes into limited mode with constant nagging to buy legitimate copy. After some time it will loose functions and eventually quit altogether.
Don't ask me what demo means, I don't even know what free upgrade means, ask Microsoft. I've always admired MS but lately they're starting to confuse me. I would have been happy to stay with Windows 8.1 but the rest of the world just didn't want to know. I've got nothing against Windows 10 either, but I guess I should have taken a bit of time to read the fine print, I thought if you had an OEM version of Windows 8 you'd get an OEM version of 10, if you had a retail version you'd get a retail version.
Anyway I know now, so I'll just have to be a bit more carefull with my equipment.
Welcome to the club, MS has not explained things like that very good, whether by purpose or omission. But experience showed thru state of things.
In nutshell, upgrading free to W10 on any device, with any kind of license, activates and licenses that on that device only.
If you buy retail version of W10, you will be able to transfer it to any new device. OEM version, just like always before, stays licensed on that device only. In some countries, like Germany for instance, because of local laws, MS has to let you transfer OEM license to new device.
Well everything worked out well in the end, after updating Windows 8.1 to Windows 10 and activating on the spare drive, I just inserted the old drive with all the games on it and it activated immediately, so no reinstalling or anything.
This worked out better than I expected.