{"id":100154,"date":"2016-08-01T17:57:20","date_gmt":"2016-08-01T15:57:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=100154"},"modified":"2016-08-01T17:57:53","modified_gmt":"2016-08-01T15:57:53","slug":"why-serious-pc-gamers-need-to-upgrade-to-windows-10","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/pc\/100154-why-serious-pc-gamers-need-to-upgrade-to-windows-10","title":{"rendered":"Why serious PC gamers need to upgrade to Windows 10"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A recent\u00a0video posted by Youtuber R Tech shows the massive graphical gains you can expect from upgrading from Windows 7 to Windows 10.<\/p>\n<p>The results show an increase of up to<strong> 7%<\/strong> when testing Nvidia cards and up to <strong>20%\u00a0<\/strong>in AMD cards when making the jump from Windows 7 to Windows 10.<\/p>\n<p>This applies to both DirectX 9 and DirectX 11 titles and does not include more advanced APIs like the upcoming DirectX12,\u00a0which is only compatible on Windows 10.<\/p>\n<p>You can check out the full video and results for yourself below:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ITajhOLharQ\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Which OS are you currently using? Let us know in the comments below and in our forums.<\/strong><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More gaming news<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to The 10 best add-ons for Firefox\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/99112-the-10-best-add-ons-for-firefox.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">The 10 best add-ons for Firefox<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to Why this mom has to moderate her daughter\u2019s Twitch Stream\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/entertainment\/100122-why-this-mom-has-to-moderate-her-daughters-twitch-stream.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">Why this mom has to moderate her daughter\u2019s Twitch Stream<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to Sennheiser unveils 7.1 Surround Sound luxury gaming headset\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/hardware\/100098-sennheiser-unveils-7-1-surround-sound-luxury-gaming-headset.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">Sennheiser unveils 7.1 Surround Sound luxury gaming headset<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New benchmarks show the massive performance difference between Windows 7 and Window 10 PCs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":234,"featured_media":83445,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_enabled":true,"_sma_x_custom_text":"","_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,3],"tags":[14210,20900,7702,13009,3960],"class_list":["post-100154","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-features","category-pc","tag-benchmarks","tag-difference","tag-graphics","tag-windows-10","tag-windows-7"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100154","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/234"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=100154"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100154\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/83445"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}