Quote Originally Posted by Bishop81 View Post
I'm on a poorly ventilated Alienware X51 R2.

The upgrade went fine for me. A part from it resetting my audio settings, and Alien Audio not working because DELL not updating their crap, nothing going straight to the Realtek Audio driver config didn't fix - I turned off all the "audio effects"; never liked that rubbish.

Other than having to do long defrags due to the upgrade rearranging a ton of files - I'm a neat freak like that. It has been smooth sailing.

FFXIV (DX11) runs fine. No problems here. Frame rates are a tiny bit better although that might just be the placebo effect.

From my point of view, it's pretty much Win 8.2 - a more polished Win 8.1. Don't really see any huge performance gains.
Because you bought alien ware they were the best until dell bought them out now it's an expensive acer just disposable pos