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Question, wife is running Win XP at the moment and I am ordering her new rig today. I want to get her a new operating system for it. Should go with Win 7 or Win 8? She does game a bit but it is mostly used for entertainment and work.

Thanks.
 
I you have more than 4 gigs of ram on the rig go with the 64 bit operating system.
 
I'd suggest you go for Windows 8 64bit. Runs very well even on my 4 year old rig. No point in buying a previous gen operating system, unless you have older hardware, or much older software you still want to use.
 
With Service Pack 1 coming soon on Win 8 (includes the Start button) go with 8. Win 7 is brilliant make no mistakes. But I have no issue with 8 TBH (using Start Menu 8) ... so I never use the metro stuff... Win 7 = Win 8 imo...
 
No Question, Windows 8.

You might as well stop listening to all these naysayers whose world ended because they changed the layout of the start menu. Windows 8 and the way it looks is here to stay, get used to it, adapt and move on. No use to sticking to old generation software for stupid reasons such as GUI.
 
binkybozo said:
Question, wife is running Win XP at the moment and I am ordering her new rig today. I want to get her a new operating system for it. Should go with Win 7 or Win 8? She does game a bit but it is mostly used for entertainment and work.

Thanks.
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8 is stable now so go for it :)
 
Thanks all. I using Win 7 64 on my laptop but just couldn't bring myself (after reading reviews) to upgrade to Win 8 but since my wife's rig will be all new I thought perhaps I should go with Win 8 for her.
 
binkybozo said:
Thanks all. I using Win 7 64 on my laptop but just couldn't bring myself (after reading reviews) to upgrade to Win 8 but since my wife's rig will be all new I thought perhaps I should go with Win 8 for her.
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There is no reason to can Windows 7 for Windows 8. But for new pc's or upgrading from XP, etc, there is no other route you should be going.
 
binkybozo said:
Thanks all. I using Win 7 64 on my laptop but just couldn't bring myself (after reading reviews) to upgrade to Win 8 but since my wife's rig will be all new I thought perhaps I should go with Win 8 for her.
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I did the upgrade (hell with the special they had it only cost me R130). Honestly I see no difference in performance, but I am using an SSD which helps either way. As said by others, 8 is stable, purely GUI difference. Go for it.
 
Oh I forgot to mention her game of choice is the Call of Duty series, will there be an issue running that on Win 8. Did a Google search and it seems that it is hit and miss with Steam and Win 8.

Thanks AlmightyBender will check that out now because she will miss the start button.
 
@Binky, Some of my clan members played it on 8 no issues. Personally my gaming PC is still 7. What clan does she play with BTW? My wife also plays COD.
 
Your games should work fine on Win 8 and there's plenty generic start button apps to add a start button to Win 8.
 
Garyvdh said:
Do you have a Touch Screen? - Windows 8.
No Touch Screen? - Windows 7.
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If you keen on using the Metro then a touch is nice, but with Start 8 and Classic Shell, Win 8 is as good as Win 7. So why not go 8?

EDIT The metro is awesome for phone...!
 
binkybozo said:
Oh I forgot to mention her game of choice is the Call of Duty series, will there be an issue running that on Win 8. Did a Google search and it seems that it is hit and miss with Steam and Win 8.

Thanks AlmightyBender will check that out now because she will miss the start button.
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Nonsense. My Steam is running perfectly on Windows 8. Driver support is pretty good, but you could have issues for the very oldest of the CoD titles. You won't have any issues with the newer ones.
 
Windows 8.

It works pretty much just like windows 7, the start menu just looks different. Plus it boots 10 times quicker than win7.
 
Windows 8. No question.

It's much better optimized and has the "swoosh" feeling. Once you get over the start menu now being full screen, its a pleasure to work with. Some things I now can never do without now that 8 can do that 7 can't, like native .iso mounting (if you game properly, you know why you want this) and proper copy-paste multithread management.

Also, all games I have work on 8. All of them. All 200 odd steam games I have work fine, including all the call of duties. If you ever do run into a problem, the win8 shell can emulate win7 call functions, so games will work with minimal tweaking (The only game I've ever had an "issue" with was Killing Floor LAN. All we needed to get it working was put it in compatibility for win7, and it worked right away).

That and the win8.1 start menu is animated! FRIEKING DRAGONS MOVE ALONG THE SCREEN AS YOU SCROLL! HOW COOL IS THAT!?
 
My dell laptop came preloaded with windows 8, I have nothing against windows 8, but I was having some driver issues, I dunno if this is a microsoft fail or a Dell fail, but I stuck it out for 2 months on windows 8, I am now back on windows 7 and gaming wise there is about a 30% increase, but like I said I think this was more a driver issue, I still love windows 7 tbh.
 
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