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Mike0811

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Hello,

I'm currently running on an i5-3750k, 8GB RAM, Asus gtx 670, 1TB HDD, and I'm looking to FINALLY get off of vista. I'm a little overwhelmed at all the different options of upgrades Microsoft offers, and to be honest, I mainly play Battlefield 4 and I hear that you can see significant FPS gains on windows 8.1 compared to 7.

At first my gut told me to just hobble down to my local best buy and plump out the retail cost for it, but then I realized I'm a student and could probably get a discount. Unfortunately my particular college at my university doesn't offer Dreamspark accounts and I cannot gain access to them (damn Bio major).

Then I also thought about downloading a copy of 7/8.1 online somewhere and legitimately BUYING a Windows Product Key but I cannot seem to find anywhere to actually order JUST a product key.

Whats the cheapest route to upgrade?
 
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W8 does not tie to the mobo like w7 oem. The oem version on prebuilts do but you can't buy these. There is no retail/"oem" for w8 that you can buy though, they combined it, so essentially you can only buy non-upgrade or upgrade. Both are transferable. I've even done it myself, coincidentally was vista to 8 on the "new" pc. Said the key was already in use and required phone activation which worked. There is a selection to keep nothing which is a clean install so no extra steps were needed.

There really isn't much difference to 8.1 but I like that they added more tile sizes and you can use the desktop background on the start menu bg instead of those plain ones you had to select. More color selections is nice too.
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I suggest you buy a upgrade version of windows 7.
It costs about the same as oem, but is considered as retail.
That means that it can be freely transferred to a new pc(AKA motherboard)

I would not suggest upgrading vist in place. There is a procedure to do a clean install with the upgrade package.
 
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sora

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This. I'm also pretty sure 8.1 doesn't even have many improvements.
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W8 does not tie to the mobo like w7 oem. The oem version on prebuilts do but you can't buy these. There is no retail/"oem" for w8 that you can buy though, they combined it, so essentially you can only buy non-upgrade or upgrade. Both are transferable. I've even done it myself, coincidentally was vista to 8 on the "new" pc. Said the key was already in use and required phone activation which worked. There is a selection to keep nothing which is a clean install so no extra steps were needed.

There really isn't much difference to 8.1 but I like that they added more tile sizes and you can use the desktop background on the start menu bg instead of those plain ones you had to select. More color selections is nice too.
 
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