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Clutch Cargo

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Does overclocking "trigger" a reactivation?
« on: February 07, 2011, 06:18:25 pm »
I found this interesting.  I had installed my Cloud9 airports (KLAX, KDCA), and my FSDreamteam KLAS & KJFK (luv them!) with no issues.  After several weeks, I decided to overclock my new new PC to improve performance when using FSX.  I went from 3.2GHz. to 4Ghz. What I found after a successful OC was the next time I started FS2004 and SFX a FSDreamteam window opened up and asked if I wanted to activate my products?  I had done this already way back so I just thought is was odd.  I did and there were no future pop-ups.

In short,  does OC the CPU set off alarm bells thinking new hardware has been installed?  Just curious.

thx,

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Anders Bermann

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Re: Does overclocking "trigger" a reactivation?
« Reply #1 on: February 07, 2011, 07:55:51 pm »
It's totally weird...

Sometimes, when you're overclocking a CPU, the BIOS will recognize the CPU as a different model, due to the different clock... I've experienced this before...

If BIOS where to see the CPU differently due to over-clocking, the eSellerate engine, could see it as an upgrade.

Again, maybe someone else has a better explanation...
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Re: Does overclocking "trigger" a reactivation?
« Reply #2 on: February 07, 2011, 08:05:05 pm »
Yes, Musjo explanation is correct, it depends on the BIOS, if it reports an overclocked CPU as a different model, it will trigger a reactivation request.

However, even if it's triggering a request, it might not *consume* an activation, because it might still be seen by the Esellerate engine as a minor hardware change.

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Re: Does overclocking "trigger" a reactivation?
« Reply #3 on: February 08, 2011, 12:59:09 am »
Right... Sorry, for 'de-railing' the topic...

But on a side note - isn't a CPU-upgrade always regarded as a 'major hardware-upgrade'?

Just curious... :)
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Re: Does overclocking "trigger" a reactivation?
« Reply #4 on: February 08, 2011, 01:32:25 am »
isn't a CPU-upgrade always regarded as a 'major hardware-upgrade'?

Usually yes, but overclock is a bit of a special case, the bios shouldn't report a totally different cpu model, I guess at least some data should stay the same, thus counting as minor.

I think bioses reporting a whole different CPU when overclocking and consuming activations should be very rare, because we don't have that many reactivation requests when going over 6, considering how popular overclock is.