If you are in a situation where you have an AMD FX CPU, your system is slightly bottlenecked by it, and you are starting to notice partial lags in new games when running on high settings, would you then upgrade to Windows 8 for the small sum of 40$, and recieve the promised performance boost with the bulldozer CPU's (I'm going to take a guess and say 15% boost), while losing the Windows 7, or would you just stay with what you have and replace it all later on?
If you are in a situation where you have an AMD FX CPU, your system is slightly bottlenecked by it, and you are starting to notice partial lags in new games when running on high settings, would you then upgrade to Windows 8 for the small sum of 40$, and recieve the promised performance boost with the bulldozer CPU's (I'm going to take a guess and say 15% boost), while losing the Windows 7, or would you just stay with what you have and replace it all later on?
If you are in a situation where you have an AMD FX CPU, your system is slightly bottlenecked by it, and you are starting to notice partial lags in new games when running on high settings, would you then upgrade to Windows 8 for the small sum of 40$, and recieve the promised performance boost with the bulldozer CPU's (I'm going to take a guess and say 15% boost), while losing the Windows 7, or would you just stay with what you have and replace it all later on?
I would get Windows 8 regardless also its a 7% boost not a 15%. Losing Windows 7 is not a bad thing.
Dual boot isn't worth the hassle imo. But I'd upgrade to Windows 8 right away, provided that I'm sure the CPU is the bottleneck and that it'll get a 15%(or 7%) performance boost when running Windows 8.
Why would you have a Bulldozer CPU in the first place?
But yeah, probably stay with Win7 because I hate Metro or whatever it's called now & they removed the option to boot directly to the desktop, so...yeah.
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But yeah, probably stay with Win7 because I hate Metro or whatever it's called now & they removed the option to boot directly to the desktop, so...yeah.
Whats wrong with the Win8 UI?
Ya o god no I have to move a screen that one button press moves this is why I will ignore all the other work MS did.
Whats wrong with the Win8 UI?
Ya o god no I have to move a screen that one button press moves this is why I will ignore all the other work MS did.
Have they said if Piledriver will get more performance on Windows 8 than Windows 7?
OT: I'm not really sure if I would switch or not. I think the upgrade only costs about $40 so I guess it would be worth it for a 7% increase. I haven't used Windows 8 so I can't say if I like it or not, but I think the metro start menu would be nicer for me to use because then I can choose to either go to the normal desktop or open Windows Media Center and watch TV since I have a tuner card. I think the only part of W8 that would take getting used to is the boxyness of everything. I like the rounded edges in W7.
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Sorry, I derped there. Are the changes they're making really that minor though considering at least about a 15% performance increase in all areas.
The only major changes is the resonance mesh cache bugs fixed and double the size of L1 cache. A few new instruction sets and that pretty much it. I am sure AMD made other tweaks but these are the only ones that they announced.
Dual boot.
i was thinking the exact same thing, if you can, i don't know if it'll go over windows 7 or be a standalone thing though
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I would get Windows 8 regardless also its a 7% boost not a 15%. Losing Windows 7 is not a bad thing.
But yeah, probably stay with Win7 because I hate Metro or whatever it's called now & they removed the option to boot directly to the desktop, so...yeah.
Whats wrong with the Win8 UI?
Ya o god no I have to move a screen that one button press moves this is why I will ignore all the other work MS did.
Have they said if Piledriver will get more performance on Windows 8 than Windows 7?
OT: I'm not really sure if I would switch or not. I think the upgrade only costs about $40 so I guess it would be worth it for a 7% increase. I haven't used Windows 8 so I can't say if I like it or not, but I think the metro start menu would be nicer for me to use because then I can choose to either go to the normal desktop or open Windows Media Center and watch TV since I have a tuner card. I think the only part of W8 that would take getting used to is the boxyness of everything. I like the rounded edges in W7.
Why would they need to say that?
Piledriver is a Bulldozer based arch its a minor tweak.
If Bulldozer gets a boost Pd will to.
Sorry, I derped there. Are the changes they're making really that minor though considering at least about a 15% performance increase in all areas.
The only major changes is the resonance mesh cache bugs fixed and double the size of L1 cache. A few new instruction sets and that pretty much it. I am sure AMD made other tweaks but these are the only ones that they announced.