i recently lost my old os on my comuter and i've been thinking about upgradeing to windows 8, the problem im not sure if i can, the reason being when i looked up the requirments for windows 8 i saw that the processor requires SSE2, NX and PAE my cpu is a amd athlon 64x2 3800+ i know it supports SSE2 and it has something called NX bit (im not sure if this is the same thing or if it will still do the job.) can someone please tell me if my computer can run windows 8 and if anyone suggest windows 8 for a primaly gaming machine.
here is the rest of my specs
320 gb 7200 rpm IDE hardrive
soltek sl-k8tpro-939
1 gb ram (plan in getting 3 more gbs)
amd hd3470 graphics card
(i also hope to upgrade my hard drive into a sata one)
on last thing of concern my old os was windows xp which got activated to many times so i am now locked out, would it be possible to upgrade to windows 8 from that?
here is the rest of my specs
320 gb 7200 rpm IDE hardrive
soltek sl-k8tpro-939
1 gb ram (plan in getting 3 more gbs)
amd hd3470 graphics card
(i also hope to upgrade my hard drive into a sata one)
on last thing of concern my old os was windows xp which got activated to many times so i am now locked out, would it be possible to upgrade to windows 8 from that?