we are moved into the new office and with it came
new Windows
yeah shiny new office but still the same old terrible jokes but you know what's
not a joke today's video topic performance under Windows 10. does it
hold up to Windows 8.1 what about Windows 7 users out there do they need
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link in the video description to learn more now to start with the differences
between different Windows is are obviously more than just you know
performance in CPU intensive tasks i mean Windows 8 and the free upgrade to
Windows 8.1 brought smb 3.0 which in theory allows aggregated speeds during
network transfers although i've never gotten it to work Windows 10 has cortana
the new edge browser actually there's one let us know if you'd like to see us
use our sexy new 200 up 200 down fiber connection to determine which browser is
indeed the fastest by mashing that like button ha i knew i could come up with
something sorry where was i uh right Windows 10 features it's got directx 12
although that won't make much of a difference until some games for it come out and of course it's got some ui
improvements now that last part probably wasn't getting you too excited about
Windows 8 unless you were one of the tiny minority who actually bought a
touchscreen laptop and even though i have one the lack of a traditional start
menu has really put an acorn in my tailpipe over the last couple of years
and breathed new life into third-party start menu add-on companies but with
Windows 10 that might be a little different the ui improvements are many
some are pretty small things like automatically prompting me for a second
window when i arrow snap tiling all my open applications when i
alt tab a huge improvement over that rubbish rolodex thing that was
introduced with Windows vista oh look we have a 3d accelerated desktop experience
but some of them are huge virtual
desktops which are accessed with Windows and tab are finally a Windows feature by
default this has been available for years on Linux os 10 and even Windows
with third party tools and the new start menu which i actually really really like
it was as simple as giving me an all apps list and not taking up my whole
screen with the start menu good on you microsoft there are still a few
things that are broken as all get out like search i mean seriously if i type
uninstall how is uninstall a program not
the first search result and there are still a few things i just need to learn
like i haven't figured out how to lock notification tray icons so i can always
see certain things like safe remove hardware and networking so yeah so far i
really like Windows 10. i did an in-place upgrade on my daily driver
laptop and a fresh install on my desktop and haven't thought for a moment about
reverting to Windows 8.1 or Windows 7 respectively but what about that
performance well i had john our new benchmarker and writer put together a
small suite of tests and run them for you folks on an identical hardware
configuration across Windows 7 Windows 8.1 and Windows 10. all of them freshly
installed and with the latest drivers and updates he used a test bench that
consists of an Intel core i7 5930k and a
6x99 deluxe motherboard 16 gigs of ddr4 gtx 980 ti and adata
sp900ssd and i guess that's pretty much the relevant components and the results
may shock you on our test bench and please note that
with quick boot enabled and fewer devices in the boot menu and whatnot
these times could be much faster but the importance here is the relative
performance not the absolute performance Windows 10 and Windows 8.1 both left
Windows 7 in the dust for cold boot times and go to sleep times but all
performed very similarly when it came to wake time so there you go in pc mark 8 i
don't really know what to make of that Windows 7 number there's no way on this
blue orb we're standing on that that represents real world performance but on
Windows 8.1 and 10 it basically tells us that they're within spitting distance of
each other then finally we arrive at gaming performance where across a test
suite that includes basically a couple of modern games that attacks both the
CPU and GPU we ended up with well no difference whatsoever a testament to the
repeatability of our gaming tests if nothing else but maybe there's more to
this than meets the eye right now for legitimate owners of Windows 7 and 8
Windows 10 is a free upgrade so while in
the past upgrading for ooh new directx
support that my graphics card might not even handle even if games that utilize
it come out before the next Windows upgrade cycle was a bit of a tough sell
this time around there's that i mean directx 12 looks ball in af and you can
learn more about it in this Techquickie video here but there's also just
no downside so Windows 10 gets a big
recommendation from us from a performance point of view nothing to
lose with our config although please no we only tested a limited
cross-section of games and only one graphics card so i still think it would be prudent to see if others with similar
configs to your own are having any issues but yeah it's looking pretty good so far
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