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I'm building a new system this week, just a standard budget gaming build (Asrock Z77 Pro3 + i5 3570k + HD 7850 + Kingston HyperX 3K SSD).
I logged in to my MSDNAA (Dreamspark) account yesterday and noticed that Windows 8 Professional is available for download already. This looks like the final version as it doesn't say that it's a developer/community preview (all these pre-release versions used to be available as well). I am intrigued.
Now, I do have a Windows 7 Professional retail box with a license that are currently unused, and I was planning to use it for this new build. However the media was from release day of Windows 7 so it doesn't have SP1 on it. Considering the pain to get a freshly installed Windows 7 updated to the latest patch, even already having SP1, it's probably going to take a whole day to get this one ready.
If I have to pay for it, I'm definitely not going to bother. But this Windows 8 iso image is just sitting there, ready to download. I'm not worried too much about the new metro interface, different ways to do things, etc. I'll learn to deal with those. I am building this system mostly for gaming, so all I'm concerned about is hardware (drivers) and compatibility with games (mostly Steam).
So what do you guys think? Anybody tried seriously gaming with Windows 8 yet (preview version or otherwise)?
I logged in to my MSDNAA (Dreamspark) account yesterday and noticed that Windows 8 Professional is available for download already. This looks like the final version as it doesn't say that it's a developer/community preview (all these pre-release versions used to be available as well). I am intrigued.
Now, I do have a Windows 7 Professional retail box with a license that are currently unused, and I was planning to use it for this new build. However the media was from release day of Windows 7 so it doesn't have SP1 on it. Considering the pain to get a freshly installed Windows 7 updated to the latest patch, even already having SP1, it's probably going to take a whole day to get this one ready.
If I have to pay for it, I'm definitely not going to bother. But this Windows 8 iso image is just sitting there, ready to download. I'm not worried too much about the new metro interface, different ways to do things, etc. I'll learn to deal with those. I am building this system mostly for gaming, so all I'm concerned about is hardware (drivers) and compatibility with games (mostly Steam).
So what do you guys think? Anybody tried seriously gaming with Windows 8 yet (preview version or otherwise)?