what windows should i get for my kaby lake

mrfredo18

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so i have a new i7 7700k and a z270 mobo and am upgrading from a amd fx 4300 and you can guess that the mobo is not a z270 now i have heard that the kaby lakes aren't supported on windows 7 but you can install it and it will run fine but they are faster on 10 i am planning on gaming and only gaming wont see me streaming or encoding or rendering stuff


the question is because my motherboards aren't similar i will have to buy windows since i doubt it came with a retail version should i get 7 since majority of people still game on it or should i get 10 ?


it will cost me less to get the retail version of 10 than the oem of 7 BTW

if 7 how hard is it to install on kaby
if 10 how much of the things that i have heard can you shut down like the telemetry


PS i dint know that the kaby lake weren't supported other wise i would of bought sky lake
 

LordConrad

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For gaming, you definitely want Windows 10. Windows 10 will give you DirectX 12, which is not available in any other version of Windows.

Either Retail or OEM is fine. OEM just ties the license to a specific computer, so when you buy or build a new computer you must purchase a new copy of Windows. Retail versions of Windows can migrate to your next machine, you can install it on your new computer when your current computer gets replaced.