W8 for a gaming PC?

I've had no issues in gaming,Steam/Origin games all running fine ,plenty of MMORPGS thrown at it,even beta games like Firefall working fine.

Compatibility wise I'm more then happy.
 
apart from a slight difference in dx versions, and a few less tasks running most of the time, tbh there's not much difference, in time it should be a lot better for gaming
 
Benefits, no.

I upgraded to make use of the £24 offer which expires at the end of Jan I think.

£24 to move now without dis-advantage with the potential of gaming advantage further down the line was a wise move in my opinion.
 
While not a massive difference, I did notice games seemed abit smoother and my Heaven 3.0 Benchmark score has increased over the same clocks on Windows 7.
 
Just seen the £24.99 offer for the Windows 8 upgrade which im probably going to get just because its cheap.

Just a couple of questions though:
How do I go about reinstalling Windows 8 in the future when I just own the upgrade verion?

Do you get a serial key? If so can you just download the retail version of Windows 8 Pro and just use the serial I get with my upgrade version?

sorry for the partial thread hi-jack.
 
I did see some benchmark tests on a variety of games running on both Windows 7 and Windows 8. For the most part the performance seemed to be pretty much the same with the occasional example of 7 out performing 8 or visa versa.

From what I have seen it doesn't look like it makes any real difference either way right now.
 
SpudMaster said:
Just seen the £24.99 offer for the Windows 8 upgrade which im probably going to get just because its cheap.

Just a couple of questions though:
How do I go about reinstalling Windows 8 in the future when I just own the upgrade verion?

Do you get a serial key? If so can you just download the retail version of Windows 8 Pro and just use the serial I get with my upgrade version?

sorry for the partial thread hi-jack.
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The Upgrade Assistant downloads the media that you can save as an ISO.

Just clean install using that as bootable media (Either burnt or from USB stick) use your key then activate. If you have trouble activating then you can change a registry key and run a single command prompt/reboot and voila - activated.
 
Sin_Chase said:
The Upgrade Assistant downloads the media that you can save as an ISO.

Just clean install using that as bootable media (Either burnt or from USB stick) use your key then activate. If you have trouble activating then you can change a registry key and run a single command prompt/reboot and voila - activated.
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Thanks. I found this video which basically explains everything you said.

TBH though the more I read about it the more I'm being persauded to keep my £25 and stick with Windows 7
 
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