Win 10 pro and Gaming

Is there any reason for me not to get Win 10 Pro if I game a lot?

I use only one computer for both work and for play and this computer has to work on both an office LAN for work and several WiFi networks for home use. In the past I have been using Win 7 Professional so I can upgrade to Win 10 Pro for nothing and I have already created a Win 10 Pro installation disk on a USB thumb drive.

I am about to place an order for a new laptop and I am going to go with a clean install of Win 10 but I would like to know if there is any reason that I shouldn't install Win 10 Pro and should instead install Win 10 Home, other than personal preference.

 

I ran 10 on my new laptop thinking finally I can play DirectX12 games...but I was underwhelmed.

Directx12 to me, at least, wasn't noticeably prettier, though it may have been lighter on the system.

Others have stated Nvme drive support in Win7 is lacking, but I personally haven't tried it yet.

So if you don't care about DirectX 12, and don't use Nvme drives, I would stick with Win7.

There's also this bit of light reading on the matter:

http://forum.notebookreview.com/index.php?threads/762434/

 

Unless you connect to a domain controller or need similar administrative functions, Windows 10 Home will do just fine. I only have Pro myself because I got it as a free upgrade when the place I bought my license from was sold out of Home.

 

One advantage of Windows 10 Pro is that you automatically qualify for a licensed downgrade to Windows 7 Pro or Windows 8 Pro.

You can order Windows 10 Pro from the builder, and request they install Windows 7 Pro - free.

Windows 10 has way too many problems, still not stable, still undergoing many changes and bugs added by forced Windows Update.

Forced Windows 10 driver updates, overriding your own personal choices for OEM drivers.

Windows 7/8.1 are stable, and there is no advantageous reason to run Windows 10.

Save yourself the aggravation, and stay with what has worked well for everyone for many years, Windows 7

 

That was the reason I've stuck with Win 7 until now; it 'aint broke so why fix it'. The configuration I was thinking of was going to have a Samsung 950 Pro 512GB as the boot drive. I suppose I could always just go for another normal EVO 850 512 GB drive instead.

 

Except for benchmarks, the difference won't be noticeable in day to day use, between PCIE and SATA M.2's, plus it's often less than half the cost per GB.

The Sandisk X400 512GB and 1TB have been used by others here and given good marks, much cheaper too. I went with the Evo 850, Micron 600, Crucial M200, and they all performed about the same - the Sandisk X400 wasn't around when I was looking.

Sandisk SD8SN8U-1T00-1122 X400 1TB M.2 2280 Solid State Drive - $240
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=9SIA2W03S86082

SanDisk SD8SN8U-512G-1122 X400 M.2 2280 512GB Internal SSD - $134.50
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=9SIA2W03S85958

 

If you don't want performance loss of any kind, the Win10 Enterprise should be slightly better? No ads, no cpu cycles being used for things you don't want. Not constantly uploading data to various servers. It's only ~50 dollars/key for the Enterprise version.