I was going to upgrade my laptop to win8 pro, but after reading about what is required on the processor for the installation to even go ahead I've decided not to waste the £50 I would be spending on the physical upgrade disc.
Windows 8 who's buying/upgrading
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what are you talking about?
And it's available for £24.99
In the FAQ for the windows 8 release preview it states that the computer must support PAE, NX and SSE2 before the installation can take place (I'm assuming that the requirement would be the same).
PAE would be pretty much moot since the it's a 64-bit processor as would SSE2 (the processor in my desktop system supports that), but there's nothing that states that the processor supports NX even the specifications on the AMD website don't tell me anything.
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=SW-150-MS&groupid=33&catid=1555&subcat=
A physical copy costs £49.99
Lol...
It will work on any processor from the past 2 decades.
When I say any processor, well, you know what I mean...
Because that's the way I prefer it (and with my internet connection a 3GB file would take ages to download which might end up being an eternity if the server hosting the files is getting hammered at the time).
Edit: I've just read your edit and enhanced virus protection is the name AMD uses for NX, so windows 8 would install with no problems (although it's likely that the AMD athlon 64 X2 6000+ in my desktop doesn't support it).
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Download manager, and a day or two to save £25. And in all likelihood a n hour or so.
Although you are correct you can't run win8 anyway.
They changed it fairly late on.
Out of interest is it a pre windows 7 machine?
Just found something saying any windows7 ready machine has have Nx and can run win8
Easy way to check, go into bios and see if you have NX or XD settings.
Although you are correct you can't run win8 anyway.
They changed it fairly late on.
Out of interest is it a pre windows 7 machine?
Just found something saying any windows7 ready machine has have Nx and can run win8
Easy way to check, go into bios and see if you have NX or XD settings.
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Been running it for two days now ( free from MSDN site ) and it's okay, getting to grips wit the shortcuts and how to close apps and all. App wise, some are pretty good like Netflix and Kindle but the Ebay one doesn't seem right, much prefer the browser.
It does support it.
I edited my last post after I read your edited post as it turns out AMD has a different name for NX.
Also I don't even think that there's any NX settings in the BIOS, but I'd have to take another look since I was only looking at other things (plus I'd probably have to update the BIOS to the most recent version (laptop is an acer aspire 5551) since I haven't updated it since I got it two years ago as everything works as it is).
Plus I wouldn't have anywhere to put the laptop so leaving it to download isn't going to be an option.
There we go, why do people use different names, wiki says intel can use the name DX as well.
Anyway if this is your desktop cpu it's supported as well
http://www.cpu-world.com/CPUs/K8/AMD-Athlon 64 X2 6000+ - ADA6000IAA6CZ (ADA6000CZBOX).html
Anyway if this is your desktop cpu it's supported as well
http://www.cpu-world.com/CPUs/K8/AMD-Athlon 64 X2 6000+ - ADA6000IAA6CZ (ADA6000CZBOX).html
maybe this has been asked before already but does anyone know if the Upgrade needs win7 installed or just a serial. i dont like upgrading OS's i'd rather do a fresh install and just add in the Wni 7 serial when required. seems pointless having to install win7 just to istall windows 8.
im guessing this is what MS will do, be silly i they don't but stranger decisions have been made by MS in the past.
im guessing this is what MS will do, be silly i they don't but stranger decisions have been made by MS in the past.
I will be upgrading to W8, but I'm far less 'excited' than I was with the W7 release.
7 is pretty awesome and hard to beat. It is leaps and bounds ahead of Vista in terms of usability. Vista just feels like a pain to use after using 7
7 is pretty awesome and hard to beat. It is leaps and bounds ahead of Vista in terms of usability. Vista just feels like a pain to use after using 7
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It's unusual to be able to enable/disable the NX function in the BIOS. If it's there, it's enabled usually.
I don't know, but I do know that 7 upgrade could do fresh installs and it was actually required for XP>7 so I would "assume" that 8 upgrade allows fresh installs too (and also requires them for XP>8)
That's the one, so at least that means that I can put windows 8 on that (but it'll be an OEM and not an upgrade because I'd loose all the installed programs in the update, plus I'd need to put a second hard drive in along with a new graphics card since the graphics card on the motherboard (asus M2N-MX) would probably be borderline for running everything without problems).
I checked the BIOS on the laptop and there's nothing related to NX there (it might just be that acer limits what can be done in the BIOS), but I think that an update would be required since the BIOS is well out of date (it's still on version 1.05 whilst the last version that was released is 2.14) and the acer update program that's meant to be doing this seems to be pants as it's done nothing since I brought the laptop.
Now that I'm more informed, the upgrade for my laptop will still go ahead but I'll be spending the next week or so backing up everything on my laptop and thinning out some of the programs I have installed to leave some more space available on the hard drive in case it's needed during the upgrade.
Just installed Windows 8. A few things:
It appears to want to link accounts (email, facebook etc) to it, including DoB, Gender etc etc.... What is it with wanting to link accounts with other accounts and all hardware, does my nut.
Standard NVidia driver gets failing with the display driver not responding error.
I run PLP screen setup and the GUI doesn't work well with it at all when going to the side of the screen or corners to get the popups, it's a pain to get it to work.
I'm finding it no faster than 7
Metro UI would be great for a tablet, but seriously, I'd rather have the info merged with my desktop Rainmeter style.
Not sure how popular this is going to be..
It appears to want to link accounts (email, facebook etc) to it, including DoB, Gender etc etc.... What is it with wanting to link accounts with other accounts and all hardware, does my nut.
Standard NVidia driver gets failing with the display driver not responding error.
I run PLP screen setup and the GUI doesn't work well with it at all when going to the side of the screen or corners to get the popups, it's a pain to get it to work.
I'm finding it no faster than 7
Metro UI would be great for a tablet, but seriously, I'd rather have the info merged with my desktop Rainmeter style.
Not sure how popular this is going to be..
Just finished installing Win 8 Pro.
Installed quick, had no issues installing drivers (latest 306.97) and my steam back ups restored no issues.
Runs really quick, looks slick and I have personally found it really easy to get used to.
Well worth the nothing it cost (god bless to OU and their premium dreamspark account) and I would have spent the small cost to buy it myself.
Installed quick, had no issues installing drivers (latest 306.97) and my steam back ups restored no issues.
Runs really quick, looks slick and I have personally found it really easy to get used to.
Well worth the nothing it cost (god bless to OU and their premium dreamspark account) and I would have spent the small cost to buy it myself.
Won't install on an 8-year old Centrino laptop due to lack of PAE. Even though the laptop will run Windows 7 quite happily and ran the Windows 8 Tech Preview.
Seems odd to require PAE on the 32-bit edition which is most likely to be installed on systems with less than 4GB of RAM.
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