Is the upgrade from 7 to 8 worth it?

[childofthetao]

Hi, I'm building a new computer and was wondering if it's worth paying for an upgrade to Windows 8. IMO the only way it would be worth is if somehow Windows 8 gave better performance in games.

I'm upgrading to i7 3770, H77 platform.

What's ya thoughts?

 

[cliffordcooley]

For me no, but your needs and desires may be different.

Personally I don't see how games would make much difference. Seriously the biggest differences would be DirectX 11.0 (Win7) vs DirectX 11.1 (Win8) vs DirectX 11.2 (Win8.1). I can live without the minor DirectX updates, just so I don't have to deal with the GUI changes in Win8. If the GUI changes don't bother you, then there really is no reason not to upgrade to Windows 8.

 

[Arris]

Most benchmarks show that Win 7 and Win 8 give the same performance in the majority of games. I only upgraded due to having a cheap upgrade deal that I got when I bought a laptop with Win 7. Otherwise I probably wouldn't have bothered. You can always try out Windows 8.1 preview and see what you think yourself (unless it is no longer available for trial).

 

[Mark Kershaw]

Having used 7 and 8 I do like both versions and do like windows 8's interface due to buying a Windows 8 phone, however I do not like IE.