That's fair enough. There's no noticeable difference really, however when I ran tests with my rig, I noticed a 7 FPS drop in windows 8 when running heaven, and a 6 FPS drop in BF4. Sure, it's not noticeable, but it's still there.

 

As well as that, I bloody hate windows 8's design, as you've said, the desktop version is okay, but I still prefer windows 7 for ease of use.

 

My problem is that I don't really pay for windows software if you catch my drift, student budget's are fairly tight and so I'll just upgrade when I see some real bottlenecking take place.

 

Completely understood, and that makes sense. 

 

To me, with Windows 8, Microsoft didn't make a whole lot of changes to the 8 Desktop, they spent most of their time on the Metro version, and their big vision of the "Unified OS". Unfortunately, it was the wrong move and a stupid one at that and the desktop version didn't get to see the changes and performance boosts if would have gotten if people's heads weren't in their asses over at Microsoft. 

 

A unified OS is like a Utopia, it doesn't exist. :) I'd explain it, but I'll just assume we agree on that. 

Just added an Asus PCE-N10 802.11b PCI-Express x1 Wi-Fi Adapter. 

Edited January 9, 201412 yr by GTAIVCode3

Just added an Asus PCE-N10 802.11b PCI-Express x1 Wi-Fi Adapter. 

 

Nice, however, is an Ethernet (Wired) connection available to you? I highly recommend going wired over wireless if at all possible. I'm on the second floor and the router is in the basement, but fortunately my house was wired with Ethernet cables in the walls (Just the cables, no connectors, so I needed to do some minor electrical work and plug everything in the basement, buy face plates ect). 

 

Especially for gaming, you don't need a lot of bandwidth, but what it does it needs very fast which wireless often doesn't cut it. (Inform me if I used the word bandwidth wrong).

 

Unless of course if you have super good internet then disregard all of this lol. 

It will most likely be wifi. Have not really decided whether I want the computer up in my room or down stairs in the office where the modem is located.

It will most likely be wifi. Have not really decided whether I want the computer up in my room or down stairs in the office where the modem is located.

 

Is your house wired with Ethernet in the walls? Check with your builder or just check for yourself. There's a nearly 90% chance you have Ethernet in your walls. 

Go with a different processor. Personally, for gaming, I'd go with an i7 or at least i5 Ivy Bridge. No game really uses 8 cores, at the most 4 cores. Plus you'll get better clocking and overclocking, if you're up for the task.