so im looking into a gaming laptop, however being at the mercy of my parents (I'm in high school) I have to stick with an asus q 500 however it has an expresscard port, I only have a 500 dollar budget, so a new build would have to have perifirals and the whole nine yards so my question is after this long winded sentance is, is windows 8 a big difference from 7, because I looked in my UEFI firmware settings and I couldn't overclock my RAM nor find anything related to banding multiple pcie x1 slots (network stacking possibly) to increase bandwidth is there a manufacturer profided bios or somthing, becasue I will not download a cracked one I need this thing for work, I've got everything else figured out, does windows 8 make it impossible to fool with the settings like in 7 thanks in advance and I'm sorry for the long post, I wont get a job until summer, because I'm in boarding school.