Claim your 7 or upgrade to Windows 10
Claim your 7 or upgrade to Windows 10
I’m changing to the Asrock Z370 Extreme 4 Intel I7 8700K MSI GTX 1080 with 8G OC at the moment. Right now I use Windows 7 Pro, and I’m curious if switching to Windows 10 would improve my performance.
You won't have Direct X 12 on win 7. PC hardware is already too fast to be slowed down by the OS. So the difference won't be noticable unless you're still on HDD boot disk. I see no reason why you still on win 7, unless you want to keep certain legacy apps / hardware.
Windows 7 doesn't officially support the 8700K. It may run but you'll see a popup similar in size to your screen warning that your CPU isn't supported. Certain functions of the 8700K won't work with Windows 7, which means some programs could offer a much stronger performance boost compared to Windows 7 (like 4K video encoding not being hardware accelerated).
Stick with W7. You’ll miss DX12 support, but you won’t have to handle the awkward updates W10 introduced. Data collection will be limited, and you’ll keep more control over your OS behavior. Getting W10 to mimic W7 is possible, though it’s a real pain. Not worth the effort. You won’t notice much performance improvement—boot times might be slightly quicker, but that’s about it.
While that's true, there are some harmuful utilities to disable this, there is an utility called wufuc which will let you use Win7 unlocking all the limitations added by microsoft for new hardware Windows 7 is currently at a security mainteance mode, meaning that you won't get any more features out of it except for security updates, in case you do care about DX12 games you should consider Windows 10, unless you prefer using DX11 and/or Vulkan you could decide to keep Windows 7 until microsoft will no longer support security updates for it, you definitely need to update since then There are no noticeable performance difference between Win 7 and 10, while the 10 is less RAM intensive (compresses ram at runtime) it has more I/O activity due to automatic and forced windows updates and telemetry applications in the background when the PC is idle
Is there a notification displayed? You mentioned a warning about CPU support during Windows Update attempts. This fix can lift that artificial limit: https://github.com/zeffy/wufuc
Thanks for the details. I’ll keep using Windows 7 for now and plan to switch to Windows 10 once I upgrade from my SATA SSD to M.2.