MagistarNL

I must admit that I never even considered Windows 8 for my gaming pc. However I needed a new laptop and I purchased a Microsoft Surface Pro 2. That machine is amazing! It has 6-8 hours battery (Can be extended by 40% with the power cover), i5, 8 gb ram, 512 GB ssd. But it came with Windows 8 (aargh!). But it is so flexible. I have been using it as a laptop, htpc (dock connected to TV) and tablet (continue watching in bed :P) for about 8 months now and I love it. You c

[quote who="psychoak" reply="164" id="3598385"] Nothing is free. Win 10 comes with the hassle and bloat of upgrading an OS instead of a clean install, unless you buy it. [/quote] Hmm no you can. First upgrade. Then your hardware GUID will be stored on the microsoft servers. Then download the Windows Media Creation tool and create an USB installer (or DVD). https://www.microsoft.com/nl-nl/softwa

The free Windows 10 complicates things. In the Windows XP/Vista x64 time I just ran a dualboot and only started Vista for a few DX10 titles (World in Conflict and Crysis). Now you need to upgrade first which basically means you need to create an image and restore it if you want a chance at a dual boot. Takes a lot of time... Even then I heard that upgrading to Win10 will consume your Windows 7 key.

I also used my GF's pc (i5 4670K, so not as exotic as build I have seen here) as test machine for Windows 10. Zero problems so far. However I did do a clean install from a USB drive created by the official MS media tool (after I upgraded first to get it Activated). I would rather just avoid the X hours to solve bug Y because I did an upgrade :P. edit: I did have to upgrade Acronis True Image to the 2015 version because the older version do not su

[quote who="Timmaigh" reply="6" id="3597552"] On other hand, after boasting dual chip card for past 4 years, it feels bit disappointing to get back to single GPU card, even if it is as powerful as 980Ti. Would naturally want upcoming titan X2 or whatever the name, but thats going to be probably twice as much as 980Ti or even more, as i know Nvidia.... oh well. Dont know about [/quote] I think that is a major advantage because with a single gpu you do not get the downsides a

You used some very nice hardware. I was going to recommend you upgrade those hard drives because the 250 and 500 GB will be so slow compared to a modern 7200 rpm drive. But you already got some new but slow 5400 rpm drives :(. In my Gaming pc use the following storage 1: 250 GB SSD for OS, program files and personal data 2: 2x 1 TB Seagate Desktop HDD in raid0 (reaches 400 MB/s+ sequentially, very useful while installing) for games 3: 1x 3 TB Seagate Deskt