Is Windows 8 Any good for 8 Core CPUS?

Benjamin Cummins · Jul 21, 2014

I've been thinking about upgrading from Windows 7 to Windows 8 due to hearing that its better on 8 core CPU's (My CPU is the FX8350 @4.0ghz) And due to the fact that every now and than my computer will have some sort of micro freeze (lasts about 1 - 1.5 minutes) so im hoping going up to 8 will fix that solution.

Any answers and suggestions on why i should/should not go to Windows 8 would be greatly appreciated

Cheers

- Ben

i7Baby · Jul 21, 2014

There's no difference. Got a link to that info?

Pinhedd · Jul 21, 2014

Benjamin Cummins :

Hi Ben,

There are several hotfixes available for NT 6.1 based operating systems (Windows 7 is the client version of NT 6.1) which are designed specifically to fix some thread scheduling issues introduced by AMD's design changes introduced with the Bulldozer microarchitecture. These hotfixes may help slightly improve performance in some cases, but they most certainly will not address a 60 to 90 second freeze, that is something else entirely.

I believe that these hotfixes are included in NT 6.2 based operating systems and beyond (Windows 8 is the client version of NT 6.2 and Windows 8.1 is the client version of NT 6.3) so there should be no need to install them.

If you already own Windows 7 and are looking at Windows 8 as a possible solution to your freezing issue, you should look elsewhere to solve that.

There are a lot of things to like about Windows 8 though. The old start menu is gone, but the new one takes about 15 minutes to get used to; if you don't get used to it, there are many replacements available.
It's more efficient, has a smaller memory footprint, plays very well with UEFI firmware (fast boot, secure boot), has a built in antivirus that has no noticeable performance impact, ships with newer versions of DirectX, has better native multi-display support, etc... Whether or not that's worth the money is up to you.

Benjamin Cummins · Jul 22, 2014

Pinhedd :

Benjamin Cummins :

Hi Ben,

There are several hotfixes available for NT 6.1 based operating systems (Windows 7 is the client version of NT 6.1) which are designed specifically to fix some thread scheduling issues introduced by AMD's design changes introduced with the Bulldozer microarchitecture. These hotfixes may help slightly improve performance in some cases, but they most certainly will not address a 60 to 90 second freeze, that is something else entirely.

I believe that these hotfixes are included in NT 6.2 based operating systems and beyond (Windows 8 is the client version of NT 6.2 and Windows 8.1 is the client version of NT 6.3) so there should be no need to install them.

If you already own Windows 7 and are looking at Windows 8 as a possible solution to your freezing issue, you should look elsewhere to solve that.

There are a lot of things to like about Windows 8 though. The old start menu is gone, but the new one takes about 15 minutes to get used to; if you don't get used to it, there are many replacements available.
It's more efficient, has a smaller memory footprint, plays very well with UEFI firmware (fast boot, secure boot), has a built in antivirus that has no noticeable performance impact, ships with newer versions of DirectX, has better native multi-display support, etc... Whether or not that's worth the money is up to you.

Any chance i could have a link to these hotfixes please? Ive spent a good hour or so looking and i cant find any

i7Baby · Jul 22, 2014

Any link to "hearing that its better on 8 core CPU's "?

Pinhedd · Jul 22, 2014

Benjamin Cummins :

Pinhedd :

Any chance i could have a link to these hotfixes please? Ive spent a good hour or so looking and i cant find any

Ask, and ye shall receive

There are two hotfixes that I know of. Both were released around the same time.

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2646060

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2645594

They may be distributed over Windows Update so if it says that they're not applicable / already installed don't worry about it.

Vitric9 · Jul 22, 2014

There is really only one Thing I cna think of that Windows 8.1 has an noticable advantage for in performance and that would be BF4. I am not sure if it is the DX11.2 or some other feature..I am pretty sure it is DX11.2......... But there is about a 15% to 20% performance increase if you have a DX11.1 Capable GPU

Pinhedd · Jul 22, 2014

Vitric9 :

That's correct. It's some features in DirectX 11.1 / 11.2 that the new Frostbite engine uses. It's pretty neat really.

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