Windows 10 Keys this has been a
highly controversial topic for a few
years now and one of the channel
sponsors that i have here
at tech yes city scdkeys,
i've been using them personally for
years now
and the reason being is i actually
checked when i first
was negotiating a sponsorship with them.
I said "look
your keys have to be legit if they're
not legit
i don't want anything to do with you." and
so they then sent me over a few
keys, but i didn't want to trust that
method i went on to a separate account
from a new user and then bought some
keys
and individually tested them and when i
ran them two years ago
they were actually retail keys - that is
single end user licenses the keys that
you and I
should be using on our pcs especially if
we are
gamers... and especially in the last few
months i've been seeing
messages along the lines of "scdkeys are
selling
volume license keys you shouldn't buy
these,
they're not meant for the single end
user" and these comments they may be
right about
other sellers of Windows 10 keys but
they're actually not right about
scdkeys where a volume license key
is essentially designed for business to
business where they would give out a
single license and
that business could then use that same
license to deploy
across all their systems that they were
using hence saving them time
but also saving them money where they
got that volume license key
now there are ebay sellers that do sell
these licenses
and essentially it isn't legal however
that's enough talk
i'm going to go buy some licenses off
ebay
and also buy some licenses off scd keys
and then use those licenses on the pc
behind me
where we can check the validity of such
licenses to tell you guys
what's going on and furthermore i'll
even call up microsoft
and check with them with today's
licenses that we're going to use
let's get on with it and get the lowdown
for you guys
so here's our first little ebay key that
we got here we got this for six
aussie dollars however the listing has
already been removed
about 20 minutes after i bought it so
that was very quick
so i'm guessing ebay is already
filtering out these listings
and stopping them from being sold on
their website though we did get the
message through and we did get a key so
we're now able to grab this key
check it out and see what it says so our
first little ebay key right here has
netted a result of a windows 10 rtm
professional n so it's not even a pro
license it's a pro
n license which there are some
differences here and that is the end
takes away some features in windows
and i think it requires an actual
different install of windows too
though the most important thing is after
that it says volume mac
now mac means multiple activation key
so that is not meant for retail channels
at
all so that's one of the ebay keys what
we're going to do now is quickly buy
another ebay key
and see what results it turns out so the
next one now that we've dropped in here
is actually i don't even know if this is
worse or not but this is a windows 10
rtm
education n volume mac license
so that's two different ebay sellers two
different keys
i'm going to say if you want to get a
key off ebay
do tread lightly and we've just got our
first key now
purchased off the website scd keys we've
got here
windows 10 rtm professional
retail so this is the retail stuff this
is a single end user license however
we're not going to stop there i've got a
heap of different keys from this website
over the years so we're going to go
through a whole page of keys
and just check the validity of each and
every one of them and going through the
rest of the keys there is a little bit
of a twist here and that is that not all
the keys are base
windows 10 some of them are actually
windows 8.1
and the thing about this is those
they're still retail keys and the good
thing is here is
you can upgrade windows 8.1 windows 8
and windows 7 keys
to windows 10 for free and so some of
the keys might be different versions but
those versions will
upgrade and the good thing is is that
they are all retail keys
so it's finally time to put on that
bogan accent give
microsoft a call and see if these keys
are legit
thank you for calling microsoft
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thank you for calling microsoft support
my name is
your first name and last name oh hello
my name's bryan
hi bryan um bryan how may i help you
today
uh yeah um i just bought a pc off
uh facebook and my mate
said i should just check if my uh
windows 10
is okay
all right so the windows 10 is
working on it you're using windows 10
operating system on it
yeah it says it's activated but my
friend said i got to be
careful of what the key is
you've got to be careful of what like if
you buy
like some people buy keys off ebay and
they're not
real microsoft keys
so i just if your windows is already
activated you do not
need a key anymore okay
so that's um okay
thanks so my windows says it's activated
and with a digital license
okay i'll just look into this further
allow me a couple of minutes bryan
one your last name would be simpson
right yeah
yeah i've got i've got the key here if
you just want to check it
uh see that's absolutely fine it should
not be required
i'll just confirm a couple of things to
you and see
and make sure that your device is
running fine okay
and bryan i must tell you that if your
system is activated through a digital
line
license it will remain activated on this
computer
okay on this pc and you need not worry
about that so all the features of
windows 10
would be unlocked and you can use your
device
without any difficulties and access all
its features
okay yeah thanks mate okay i won't waste
any more of your time
thanks mate you're most welcome brian
and so there it is from microsoft
support themselves
they basically said if your windows 10
is activated
you have nothing to worry about and i
was a little bit surprised because i did
mention that i look i bought this key
off
marketplace and it could be a key
where my friends have warned me about
keys on ebay
and that didn't phase uh the customer
support team they just said look if
windows is activated
you are pretty much good to go we're
going to continue on now with
uh for instance you go to trustpilot
this is a big one because some people
have linked me to trustpilot where cd
keys for example
have been getting i'd say their
competitors are putting in fake reviews
because
i've never had a problem and i've got a
lot of friends that use scd keys as well
we've never had one problem with the
service you pretty much
log into the website use paper i use
paypal to buy the keys
and they're instantly delivered you just
go to show key and then your keys there
and all the keys have worked
and here's the best thing about today's
video with std keys because i went to
them and i said look
i'm going to do this video but can you
give the viewers a big discount and they
said look
it's the month of black friday we're
going to give a 30 discount
for people who use the coupon bftyc
and so i when i bought the keys today i
use this on a two-for-one combo so
they'll sell two retail keys
for a little bit cheaper than the price
of buying two individually
in a pack and this is a great option if
you're building more than one pc
because we see here with the cost it's a
little over 9 usd
for a single end windows 10 pro license
and they're a retail key so the bottom
line with scd keys the channel sponsor
here they're absolutely fine i'll put a
link in the description below
with this month's coupon code even
though it's black friday
tyc the bftyc i'm calling it the big fat
tyc discount for november when you get
30
off and they've also got other products
like office 2016
which i've activated one of these to my
microsoft account for instance if i
change pcs or upgrade my pc
i can then just log into that account
and i've got office
2016 available there so really handy
really good service and i do vouch for
my sponsors here at tech yeah city so if
you have any more questions or comments
about cd keys and windows 10 then be
sure to drop a comment in the comment
section below but there's also one more
thing as well and that is
if you get older pcs like in taiwan
i remember we went to a scrap yard and
we saw windows 7 keys
printed on these old computers if you
want to get a free key
it is possible to reuse older windows 7
keys
so there's that option too and so if you
see me on parts hunt sometimes i'll pick
up old windows 7 keys and when i've then
reused that motherboard put it in a
different case for example
i was then able to upgrade that windows
7 key to windows 10
and i didn't have to pay for a windows
10 license at all
so there's that option too anyway guys
we got the question of the day here
which comes from mr max gas
and they ask the lg cx supports
variable refresh rate right what about
the
c9 now both the c9 and the
uh cx they're the lg 4k 120 hertz oled
tvs
they support it both of them because
it's baked in i believe to the hdmi 2.1
standard
so you shouldn't have a problem it's
just then up to the firmware update
and also the update of the device you're
using
whether it be a playstation 5 or an xbox
series x
or a pc graphics card it's up to that
manufacturer to then
work with that tv to get that working
properly
so yes it can work just whether it will
work and how much time it takes for that
to work
is another thing anyway guys hope that
answers that question and i'll catch you
in another tech video very soon
peace out for now bye
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