Windows 7 home premium vs ultimate - gaming

[potatoworld]

Is there a difference between those two while talking about gaming?

[Samdb]

No, not at all.

[Snickerzz]

For gaming no

[Guest]

Home Premium might be better for intergraded GPU's. Otherwise no.

[ooiman92]

Unless you need more than 16GB of RAM, no.

[atrash]

Unless you need more than 16GB of RAM, no.

what?premium can only use 16GB?i was planning to upgrade to 32GB

[ooiman92]

Yeah, sorry to bring the bad news lol http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/windows/en-US/5a518386-27a8-46fa-a85a-678b7c25358e/physical-memory-limits-windows-7

[SSOB]

what?premium can only use 16GB?i was planning to upgrade to 32GB

Yep

[allthatremains94]

If you're ever going to run older games, Windows XP mode in Ultimate will make it much easier.

 

Made running my older games much less of a hassle.

[M-ursu]

Ultimate is just a waste of money, unless you are some professional guy.

[allthatremains94]

Ultimate is just a waste of money, unless you are some professional guy.

Yeah...money...about that...

[atrash]

Yeah, sorry to bring the bad news lol http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/windows/en-US/5a518386-27a8-46fa-a85a-678b7c25358e/physical-memory-limits-windows-7

oh man..I thought 64bit supports unlimited amount of ram.16GB is barely enough for me.

[allthatremains94]

oh man..I thought 64bit supports unlimited amount of ram.16GB is barely enough for me.

Well, you don't necessarily have to BUY Ultimate...

[Matsy]

Who even pays for windows anymore?

[typetheed]

Well, you don't necessarily have to BUY Ultimate...

 

I used to be like you. Then I actually bought a Windows 7 w/SP1 OEM disk for $99. It has practically unlimited installs as long as you phone in, and you never have to worry about not having a legit copy of windows.

 

You're already paying for a multi-hundred dollar gaming PC, might as well add an OS for another $100. Think of it as an investment.

[Matsy]

I used to be like you. Then I actually bought a Windows 7 w/SP1 OEM disk for $99. It has practically unlimited installs as long as you phone in, and you never have to worry about not having a legit copy of windows.

 

You're already paying for a multi-hundred dollar gaming PC, might as well add an OS for another $100. Think of it as an investment.

 

I also have unlimited installs any time I want (USB pen boot drive) without any mucking around, its just installs with no funny business with phone calls or anything.

And why would you worry about having a truly legit copy of windows? my copy is exactly the same as yours and for all intents and purposes, legit as far as the software is concerned.

[atrash]

 

i once had to reinstall my windows several times over a few days because of a faulty hdd. you do need to phone in to microsoft to let them know you're installing on the same pc(or the same motherboard to be specific) as the cd key is tied to it.

[AvoK95]

For home use, just the Home Premium edition, if you plan on using more than 16GB of RAM, get the Professional edition. The different editions of Windows just enable/disable some minor features which we rarely use (Well most of us at least) There is no performance benefits between the different editions of Windows.

 

Also, just throwing this out there...Windows 8 performs better than Windows 7 (But no by that much)

[GoodBytes]

No gaming difference. Higher editions of Windows is just more features that will be installed. Performance is the same. And these added features are never related to increase in performance in any shape or form.