Need help choosing a new OS!
 

Some guys here might be using Windows 10. I have a Windows 7 Ultimate 64 bit with Sevice Pack 1. Will upgrading my OS to Win 10 Pro 64 bit increase my perfomance a bit or not?

It depends on the hardware level and specifications of the target machine.

My computer is good enough even though its a laptop. 12 GB RAM, Intel Core i3 4th gen 3.6 GHz, AMD Radeon 8970M. But i bought this laptop somewhere around 2012, but Win 10 is of 2015. I am just curious the OS might not correctly support in the dated machine. Few months ago, i used Win 8.1 and it gave my laptop loads of freezes. The machine became more slower. It somehow got fixed when i again reverted back to 7.

That all looks OK to me Ace but...

In some cases specs for running it can vary up and down from specified and a system that lags after installing an OS can be for many other reasons than the OS itself.

Better to install the updater from Microsoft which will check for you and it's free for another month.

https://www.microsoft.com

I didnt updated anything, not a single time since i bought this laptop :-P

???

Grammar mistakes :v

Intel Core i3-4160 Processor / 3M Cache @ 3.60 GHz
12 GB RAM
Radeon 8970M 850 MHz - 900 MHz
Memory to 4GB GDDR5
Memory Clock 1200 MHz / 4.8 Gbps
Memory Bandwidth 153.6 GB/s
Peak Single Precision 2304 GFLOPS
Peak Double Precision 144 GFLOPS


The laptop was unable to run Windows 8.1 properly with all this kit?

It was probably just drivers.

Brand ... Build ????

See if you can post all the info you can think of first Ace.
Then things don't drag out.
No one likes fishing about for info.

Hey wait. Its not i3 4160. It is Intel core i3 4170 3.8 GHz. Moreover, dont ya think ive already said about my specs? My GPU, RAM, CPU. Then what is left here?

The brand is Lenovo.

You said your machine was an i3 3.6GHz

There was only one i3 3.6GHz according to the literature that I can find :ohnoes:

Urr...

Just naming the brand is hardly enough now is it?

Intel Core i3 FYI


i3 CPU's are not quad core.

My machine - vs - Your machine :clap2:

My machine - Windows 8.1 - vs
Your machine - Windows 7
My machine - Core i5 2nd gen 3.3GHz - vs
Your machine - Core i3 4th gen 3.8GHz
My machine - 8GB RAM - vs
Your machine - 12GB RAM
My machine - 2GB graphics memory - vs
Your machine - 4GB graphics memory

:read:

• To Upgrade To Windows 10 From An Existing OS:
  Windows 7 SP1 - Windows 8.1
• Minimum Processor Specification:
  1GHz
• Minimum RAM:
  1GB for 32bit or 2GB for 64bit
• Hard disk space required:
  16GB (for 32bit OS) - 20GB (for 64bit OS)
• Graphics card:
  DirectX 9 or later with WDDM 1.0 driver (Windows 7 uses WDDM or XDDM, Windows 8 only uses WDDM) The AMD Catayst 15.7 display driver adds WDDM 2.0 for Windows 10
• Minimum Display Resolution:
  800x600

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BTW Wolfenstein New Order will give you a sore finger.

http://steamcommunity.com/id/stompem/games/

The game is just tooooooooooooooo big. Over 40 GB of data to download :-(