Recent content by luna-flower

Ok, I think I am going with i5-8500 cause there is a nice sale on newegg right now, no reason to think that'd work any different. The sale ends in half a day so I am just gonna take the plunge and do my best, worst case scenario I will just run 8.1 in VM on Linux which tbh is starting to look...

Hey, thanks for the response. Okay, Kaby Lake is gen7 right? I was hoping to get 8.1 running on Coffee Lake, I just found a page for people installing 7 on Kaby Lake and it seems some people there got 7 working on coffeelake just with no igpu (doesn't matter here, got dedicated card) though tbh...

I'm building my own, and buying refurbished isn't something I'm interested in doing. At that point I'd just build with pre-7th gen anyways, since that's what would be inside. Thanks anyways, but this thread is specifically about how to get 8.1 working on current-gen hardware, so that wasn't...

Hi, in the effort of keeping this as short as possible I'll cut right to the chase. It is still a bit long but please bear with me. I am about to build a new PC, I've always wanted to but now I have to as my old machine suffered an accident (rip). Here's the thing, I won't use windows 10...