Windows 8 Desktop mode

[rossiboy001]

Have buried my head in the sand , but I think the upgrade £25 offer runs out this month , its time to make decision to upgrade .
I use the PC for office work and gaming .
Will the drivers be significantly better for gaming long term , How long will support for w7 last , perhaps till W9 ?
The W8 software checker thing from the website , says I will lose fraps or get a payed update ?, and desktop gadgets along media centre which I use a lot .with a tv card .
Are there good alternatives in w8 for those , I overclock and run SLI so I like to have the on screen information all the time in the corner of one of my three screens in surround .
Seems to me ill be losing a lot , to gain a couple of FPS perhaps with better drivers that maybe sometime in the future .
Also running different apps , I see a lot of youtube videos that say that the sizes you can run pages or files is limited to set sizes , not like W7 where you can adjust by dragging the edges to suit . Though all i find is this being shown in metro , not the desktop mode , Is the desktop mode the same as W7 and i can size everything how i want it , making it easy"r to drop and drag ect and have multiple things open .
These are all the issues I need to answer before deciding to upgrade , or not to downgrade to w8 depending on your view .

 

[rossiboy001]

Thanks Guys . Can get media as a free add on ? Is that automatic ?
Lol Spoffle , Am I doing something wrong , maybe , To me it dont look right without a space , maybe its my eyes . If I was handwritting though your way looks to close , mine to far , shame computers cant move half a space .

Ok So last of all fair enough I can ditch fraps , But how pratical is W8 for overclocking . Iv got my i2700k set to 4.5ghz and SLI 680"s with factory overclocks . Does Core temp still work ? I Find the core temp , and GPU gadgets comforting so I can see out of the corner of my eye whats going on , Like when driving your main FOV is the screen , but its good to glance at your temps and revs ect once in a while . Mind I know Its hardly useful just right now typing and browsing , Not exactly taxing until I get into a game ect then there gone .
Is there alternatives , but if not more importantly will core temp still work , so I can review that directly not from a gadget ?
Thanks Again

 

[rossiboy001]

Just to say iv upgraded , Was a bit of hard work at first cause i thought ill try the easy way and just let it upgrade itself like ubuntu , but it froze , of course after it asked me to remove all the USB 3 drivers , and me mouse would not work so I couldnt do jack until digging out an old mouse , rebooting several times and trying all the USB"s but eventually one worked albeit very slowly , but it saved me from giving up and repairing with me W7 disk .
Just cant get my logitech centre speaker to work of my 5.1 system, even though it test out good with the sound configuration thing in programs n features .
Also havent figured how to reduce the taskbar to the center screen and not span all 3 of the surround
Sure the first ill prob find in a driver update , the second maybe im just missing something , it was in the options at the top in nvidia control panel .
But on first impressions , feels a bit better, smoother , looks a little smarter deff worth £25 not sure about the cost of a full disk upgrade though , right of to try sort out media center .
Thanks again all