Gaming Rig Bottleneck

[CyberNerd]

TBH I don't actually use XP, 99% of the time I run on linux at school and at home so I have absolutely no interest in the 'advances' in the windows GUI, it's just there to load games. I've been playing BF2 fine on the current system (dual boot XP) and was thinking ahead to DeusEx (which is in the post

 

I'll probably wait for windows8 if it's going to help with game performance that much and stick a new gfx in it.

[Arthur]

it may be worth waiting for the next version which is probably due early next year.

By early next year, do you mean Autumn 2012?

[SYNACK]

By early next year, do you mean Autumn 2012?

 

There is a chunk of uncertainty about that Microsoft Windows 8 release date: 2012; demo next week - Computerworld Blogs

 

"there's a kind of hush" Ballmer has softly whispered ... that Windows 8 will

be out in time for 2012. ... The first time that [Microsoft] has given a time

frame for the operating system and ... that he has mentioned the OS by name.

 

It depends on which is more correct, but I'm sure CyberNerd would be a little irked if he brought it and it was replaced 4 months later.

[featured_spectre]

Dx10 is a minimum requirement for a lot of new games, and that means vista or better...

[Arthur]

It depends on which is more correct, but I'm sure CyberNerd would be a little irked if he brought it and it was replaced 4 months later.

I would be too, but based on recent news articles it's very unlikely it will be...

 

Windows 8 still has no firm release date, but if it follows Windows 7's precedent, we'll probably see a beta sometime in early 2012, followed by a release candidate in the spring and RTM in the summer before the OS is released to the public in the fall. (Source)

 

There's still no word on a release date, with the second half of 2012 still being the most likely estimate. (Source)

 

If Microsoft sticks to the same three year development cycle as Windows 7 then TechNet/MSDN subscribers will be able to download the final RTM version of Windows 8 in the summer, while CyberNerd would have to wait another 2-3 months before it is available to buy in the shops/online.

[CyberNerd]

If Microsoft sticks to the same three year development cycle as Windows 7 then TechNet/MSDN subscribers will be able to download the final RTM version of Windows 8 in the summer, while CyberNerd would have to wait another 2-3 months before it is available to buy in the shops/online.

 

It's fine, I'm only using it as a games platform, I'm sure the graphics card will tide me over. I'll wait.