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Widjaja · Oct 5, 2012, 03:06 PM

Home Premium, Pro and Ultimate are fine for gaming with Home Premium being the cheapest due to limitations implicated by Microsoft to justify the pricing for Pro and Ultimate.

If for some reason want to install more than 16GB of ram, you will want Pro or Ultimate.

I am using Home Premium and it is fine for gaming with my current set up.

System Name:	Darth Obsidious
Processor:	Intel i5 2500K
Motherboard:	ASUS P8Z68-V/Gen3
Cooling:	Cooler Master Hyper 212+ in Push Pull
Memory:	2X4GB Corsair Vengeance DDR3 1600
Video Card:	ASUS HD7870 Direct CU II
Hard Disk:	128GB Samsung 830 SSD, 1TB WD Black, 2TB WD Green
Optical Drive:	ASUS BC-12B1ST 12X Blu-ray Combo
CRT/LCD Model:	LG IPS234V-PN
Case:	Corsair Obsidian 650D
Sound Card:	Infrasonic Quartet
PSU:	Corsair HX650w
Software:	Windows 7 64bit and Windows XP Home
Benchmarks:	2cm mark on bench with a razor blade.

Oct 5, 2012, 03:06 PM	#7
Widjaja Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: Wangas, New Zealand Posts: 4,058 (1.85/day) Thanks: 244 Thanked 632 Times in 547 Posts System Specs	Home Premium, Pro and Ultimate are fine for gaming with Home Premium being the cheapest due to limitations implicated by Microsoft to justify the pricing for Pro and Ultimate. If for some reason want to install more than 16GB of ram, you will want Pro or Ultimate. I am using Home Premium and it is fine for gaming with my current set up.