Windows 10: GPU upgrade and Windows 10 activation

I'll be upgrading my graphics card in a few weeks to a Pascal GTX 1070 from my current card. I upgraded to Windows 10 last August and before I increase my budget in my efforts to get a reference style card, I need to know how well other people's systems have gone with the hardware changes and their Windows 10 install and if anyone has run into activation problems.

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Replacing CPU in windows 10

Upgrading the gpu shouldn't cause a problem, but then again, I've heard of someone having Windows activation issues after plugging in an external drive.

 

Windows 10 upgrade failure

Hey I had the same problem too but I was able to upgrade to windows 10 after I updated the nvidia drivers from their website. They don't actively tell you that the GPU drivers are out of date as they aren't microsoft programs, but once you go to nvidia's
site and ask them to check for whether your GPU drivers are out of date, they would tell you that it is. It is easy from there on, just update those drivers and try to update to windows 10 again. This worked for me, hope it works for you too

 

I recently changed an AMD Athlon X2 Dual-Core CPU to an AMD Athlon X3 Triple-Core CPU. No other hardware was changed and Win10 remained activated. A combination of parts being changed at the same time may cause an activation issue and require a phone call to Microsoft to resolve it.

 

I just upgraded my Video card from a GTX 660Ti to a GTX960 G1 card and no change in Win10 but, two days later I changed my Computer case and my Office 10 had to be activated again? *Biggrin

 

Activation is tied with motherboard only, no other change, even CPU or HDD affects it.