Win 8.1 vs Win 10 vs Win 7

[Pkelexz]

soooo im using win 8.1 atm and was wondering if I should update to windows 10 or downgrade to win 7. Im mainly looking for gaming performance im using an i3 6100 8gb ddr3 ram and a gtx 750 1gb 

[3 Lions]

Upgrade to Windows 10.

[Saieshan Dadi]

I don't think you'd see a gaming performance upgrade with windows 10, however you shouldn't see a performance degrade either so upgrading if you can won't be the worst thing to do.

 

The only thing windows 10 explicitly has over 8.1 in the "gaming" department is dx12 which you can't use with a 750Ti and frankly it isn't that ground breaking.

 

I'd say you decide whether you want to upgrade or downgrade based on usability more than anything. OS's don't generally directly affect gaming performance, they affect the back-end things like memory management (which incidentally is quite similar between these 3 OS's) and even if the OS change does affect gaming it is usually negligible.

 

TLDR

 

Don't downgrade unless you prefer using windows 7 over windows 8

 

Upgrade to windows 10 if you want to but don't expect anything mindblowing

[MyLittleFella]

I'm happy with seven.