Anh-Tuan Luu

i will likely stick with windows 7, unless windows 8 shows features that make it a necessity

I agreed i will stick with the Window 7 for now as i just downgrade from windows 8

Yeah, I"m still sitting on the fence about reinstalling windows 8 again. But I'm thinking I'm still going to give it another go. I'm getting well versed in formatting and starting from scratch at this point. It's not as scary a concept as it was prior to my issues.

I installed Win 8 on my m14x and regret it, working on installing Win-7 as i am typing this.

i upgraded my Win-7 to 8 and very unhappy with the result, Diablo 3 was very unstable( as in frameskipping) and i have to do a downgrade to Win-7

Some people said me that the ic diamond will let some scratches on the cpu and gpu. Is that true ?

Yes sir that is true, IC Diamond workes really good however... if you keep repasting it, it will leave scratches all over the CPU

As far as I know the M14x R1 supports a maximum of 8GB at 1600MHz while R2 supports up to 16. I would also be interested to hear if anyone has gotten 16GB working in their R1. In terms of your upgrade, the SSD and 8GB will still give you a nice performance improvement.

That is not true, with the R1 you can run the ram UP to 16gbs same as R2. However the R1 is NOT SSD friendly as the R2 is