Windows 7 or Windows 8?

[Will01]

I just built a new PC with windows 8 and I can say it is significantly LESS demanding on resources.

with 8gb of RAM windows 7 bare install occupied 17-19% of ram, while windows 8 occupies 14% ram and consumes less cpu cycles.

I was hesitant about upgrading to 8, but it was well worth it. It is also extremely stable. No crashes in the 4 months the PC has been assembled.

If you built a new pc with better hardware it stands to reason that 8 uses a small percentage, if, for ex your old pc had 4gb ram and 7 used 19% and your new has 8gb and 8 uses 14%, overall 8 is using more

[Andvari2297]

If you built a new pc with better hardware it stands to reason that 8 uses a small percentage, if, for ex your old pc had 4gb ram and 7 used 19% and your new has 8gb and 8 uses 14%, overall 8 is using more

Not entirely sure where you came up with 4gb.....I stated "with 8gb of ram".

[Will01]

Not entirely sure where you came up with 4gb.....I stated "with 8gb of ram".

It was an example, in your post you stated that Win8 uses less resources on your new PC. It stands to reason that if your new pc is indeed better than your old one (I assume it is, why else would you upgrade), it would have more resources to begin with, so win8 uses less of the more abundant resources would be common sense really.