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There are of course ways to avoid activating, or indeed "transferring" everything he has installed over to the new SSD. It's just my personal opinion that what I outlined is the easiest way to go about what he wants to do.

The easiest thing to do is backup anything on your current SSD that you might miss, install Windows 7 again on your new SSD and then copy everything you backed up over. Then install DCS World and install the modules + use an activation. This is the most effective and easy solution since you'll never have to do it again unless you change your SSD. Your situation is one of the few times that results in activating again, assuming that the module in question is currently installed on the Crucial M4.

I see, well thanks for the replies from both gentlemen. :) Interesting listening to Matt Wagner discuss the radar selection and other details concerning DCS F/A-18C from the fsbreak.net podcast, particularly the intention to model the APG-73 for the 18 and APG-63 v1 for the 15. Revelation: I wonder what evidence there is that the module has been in development for several years? I know there are the F/A-18x sims with the dodecahedron pits at NAS Lemoore and others, but those were developed by L-3 Communications.

Does ED have people that contact Boeing and basically ask for everything they need? I mean, I'm just curious how ED is going to acquire all the necessary information to produce the F/A-18C at the study sim level of ie the A-10C module. I know that ED or some part of ED was making the A-10C sim for the Air National Guard prior to the release of A-10C and thus had access to all relevant information to produce the module at the level they did, which in turn likely decreased the development time for A-10C. Since AFAIK a similar situation isn't happening for F/A-18C and the rest of the modules mentioned in the March newsletter, wouldn't that imply a longer development cycle than A-10C?

^This is just a simple improved build based on what you posted. You excluded for example a monitor, an OS, and a disc drive so I excluded them as well, assuming that you won't need to purchase them for whatever reason. You could easily make a superior PC for £1000, at least based on the US prices I see aggregated on PCPartPicker. The above build has 16GB of DDR3-1866 RAM, a superior SSD, GPU, CPU cooler and less expensive case with similar air flow and aesthetic details to the Antec 300. The GPU in particular is tom's hardware's best buy from £120-£180. It's based on the same tahitis as the 79xx series as opposed to the pictairns from the 78xx and thus achieves a higher level of performance and overclockability while staying price competitive with the lower performing GTX 660 ti. You could easily add a GTX 670 if you're more keen to go with nvidia for whatever reason and still stay within the proposed £1000 budget. At GTX 670 level (probably much lower really) and ~1920x1200 resolution you cease to need a better GPU for DCS World as of 2013 (not to mention some pretty absurd performance in Crysis 3), and therefore money spent on something better performing like a 7970 or 680 is frankly a waste. You could save for a better monitor, a pair of pedals, some beer etc.. You will of course receive a better deal if you buy the parts separately and assemble and overclock yourself, but if that isn't your thing the lists should help anyway. Have fun with your new PC and cheers. With a GTX 670, DVD Drive and Win7 pro 64: