Dell optiplex 745 compatability

Dell driver support/availability for the 745 stops at Vista, however you may find that 7 and 8 have native support as there isn't normally anything too fancy in an Optiplex. It's a case of expeimenting and seeing what happens.

im positive that it is w7 capable, and i dont have the cash to "expirement", im hopiing somebody else already expirimented for me

Best answer selected by samander95.

Create a profile on Microsoft's Technet Evaluation Center. Download the 90-day trial of Windows 8 Enterprise and dual-boot it with your current setup to check driver compatibility and test out if you can get everything working or not.

Doesn't cost you a cent either. You may have issues with PCI-Express 1.0 cards but so long as Intel has updated their chipset drivers (which you can load from www.intel.com, using the Driver Update Utility) you will be fine. I'm installing 8 on an AGP system with a Pentium 4 this weekend to see how it runs.