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• garyk49 2,313 Posts

  Tue, Jul 13 2021 4:01 AM

  win11 is going to look like your phone

• garyk49 2,313 Posts

  Tue, Jul 13 2021 4:04 AM

  Yiannis1970:

  Didn't want to respond to Simon, so i left to Scott the bitter task!!! lol

   

  7 forevaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!!!!!

  gotta agree with Yiannis to a certain extent.  Unless you have to build new, then 10.  Can't redo my 7's when changing motherboard with OEM.

• Yiannis1970 3,269 Posts

  Tue, Jul 13 2021 4:58 AM

  I know Gary..:(

  Planning to build a new system in couple of months (buying piece by piece) and i will go with 10s...unfortunately. I won't go near 11...

• ScottHope 10,086 Posts

  Tue, Jul 13 2021 5:28 AM

  Even if...

  

  ...as an upgrade.

• garyk49 2,313 Posts

  Tue, Jul 13 2021 7:31 AM

  ScottHope:

  Even if...

  

  ...as an upgrade.

  It's free as an upgrade from 10, as far as I have been able to tell,as was 10 in relation to 7 and 8.1.  I haven't seen anywhere the cost of 11 yet.  My gamer I built 2 years ago I loaded with 10, I got the thumb drive for $140 from microsoft, a full copy and key.  I couldn't justify going back on with 7 as the cheapest I could find was over $400.  That machine was originally built by cyberpower and had a OEM copy of 7 on it.

   

• garyk49 2,313 Posts

  Tue, Jul 13 2021 7:34 AM

  Yiannis1970:

  I know Gary..:(

  Planning to build a new system in couple of months (buying piece by piece) and i will go with 10s...unfortunately. I won't go near 11...

  Check out pcpartspicker, good for compatibility, and pricing.  If by chance you are not going to replace the MB, you can still upgrade 7 to 10 for free, even if the 7 was an OEM copy.  I just recently did that to an old computer of my wife's that had a virus on the hard drive I could not get rid of without a format.  Her restore disks would not work on the unformatted drive, and I wanted to change the computer over to a SSD anyway.  Her computer had never been updated to SP1 and could not find a viable source of SP1, so only choice was to take it to 10.

• Yiannis1970 3,269 Posts

  Tue, Jul 13 2021 9:20 AM

  Thanks for the info Gary but it will be brand new (mobo, ram, cpu, case, psu etc).

• ScottHope 10,086 Posts

  Tue, Jul 13 2021 9:38 AM

  What type of storage are you going to use Yiannis?

• SimonTheBeetle 3,497 Posts

  Tue, Jul 13 2021 10:05 AM

  ScottHope:

  It does doesn't it. But yes, that looks like where we're heading.

  garyk49:

  win11 is going to look like your phone

  😟 Unfortunately so... Now the trends are like they're integrating the interfaces of both mobile & PC devices.

  Yiannis1970:

  Planning to build a new system in couple of months (buying piece by piece) and i will go with 10s...unfortunately. I won't go near 11...

  Yiannis, might be better off waiting a bit longer since the price of graphic cards will likely chute drop with the decadence of Bitcoin?

• Yiannis1970 3,269 Posts

  Tue, Jul 13 2021 10:08 AM

  M.2 for the OS and classic 3,5'' 4TB for storage.