wondering about if W7 will work with new Zen AMD chip...
I hear it will ....Then I hear it wont?????
wondering about if W7 will work with new Zen AMD chip...
I hear it will ....Then I hear it wont?????
Good question. Im in the same boat. Win 7 ult 64 bit. I imagine an official generic response will be win7 is no longer officially supported.
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It will work just fine. I believe the statement that alludes to the "entire processor is not compatible" actually refers to a superfluous 'functionality' of the processor that won't work but its pretty irrelevant for most users. I forgot the specifics, had something to do with media processing IIRC.
All in all, its another disingenuous campaign from Microsoft to convince you to upgrade to Win10. The processor is %99.999 functional in Win7. The %.0001 that isn't won't kill anyone.
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from Google news:
If you are adamant to cling to Windows 7, chances are that you will miss out on the upcoming Ryzen driver support from AMD after the Sunnyvale chip maker confirmed that its next-generation CPUs will be exclusive to Windows 10.
Previous rumors had it that AMD was working on the chipset drivers for its upcoming socket AM4 platform for Windows 7. After validating the Ryzen desktop processors, the company has decided to roll out support and drivers for Windows 10 to achieve the best performance. That means Ryzen chips will have no issue booting into older OS like Windows 8.1, Windows 8 and Window 7.
The decision is not surprising, nonetheless. Microsoft already hinted at the possibility that AMD’s Ryzen chips, along with Intel’s Kaby Lake processors, would support only Windows 10. The idea is to closely align the design of hardware and software to achieve the best performance. It does not make sense then to support Windows 7 with Ryzen given the operating system and processor’s huge generation gap. Well, AMD conducted a test on Windows 7 with Ryzen, but some features might not have worked properly, forcing the company to abandon the older OS.
Win7 will load and you will find drivers for most of the devices on the mobo but AMD will no longer create "Win7" drivers for chipset and onboard vga.
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Ahh, chipset drivers... I didn't follow the Skylake discussion very closely with win 10 and win 7 compatibility but I thought it had something to do with a media coding functionality and/or instruction sets only capitalized by win 10.
Funny, I'm in the opposite boat. Intel won't update x58 chipset drivers for win 10
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Im certain of one thing. Till 10 has a service pack or 2 under its belt im not using it. I took the same stance with 7. Much rather use a mature OS than be MS's guinea pig.
Good news is ive heard rumours of a future update that removes alot of fluff for pc users. How i have no clue.
On a sidenote...this may be a poor decision. Many companies that buy budget boxes in volume not to mention IT reccomends what to buy. Well lets just say thats a preety large market ignored that could be eating up there 2core/4 threaded parts.
I see some on win 7 but many on xp still.
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If you want Win 10 with no fluff try Win 10 LTSB
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I could install it but legitamately there is no way for a consumer to purchase an enterprise copy of win 10.
Technet and versions with a periodical activation pop up great for testing and benchmarking. Not so much for a daily driver.
The last thing i want when i have someone in my iron sights in bf1 is a popup to activate windows
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No pop ups for 6 months, fully functional.
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the MSDN one as no periodic activation, but requires an active account.
i have not had any problems with pro after changing the policy settings in the registry to make it use the education options if set. i really wish i would have made a file or saved the tutorial for it.
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I hardly think any of these pop ups would do that, normally these things happen on bootup.
I have used many TechNet evaluation copies and that is when these things happen... unless you have ignored them until its to late.
I have been using Win 10 Pro from day one release and not had many issues. Mostly the issues are from things like hardware such as Mad Catz keyboards/mouse software. I hardly blame Microsoft for that but rather Mad Catz for not proper updating drivers.
Another one is Malewarebytes that out of no where gives a blue screen. Uninstall it and no problems.
Some complain that you get a nag pop up on the lower right hand corner task bar for Office 365 every now and than, I have not seen it as I use Office 365, except on one machine that I did not tie to my normal rigs. Its just a small nag that does not going over the top of other apps.
I also run BF 1 on a ASUS Z10PE WS board with 2x E5-2699v3, 256GB RAM, SSD's, 1080gtx in 4K. Its smooth as butter and not had one issue.
I'm almost ready to buy W10 Pro 64 DVD and hope I can set up like W7 and get past this crap ......
no worries about chipset drivers.
just found this holy smokes:
Windows 10 OEM is intended for pre-installation on a new PC and cannot be transferred to another computer once installed. • NOTE: Installation is only possible when using a clean (blank) machine with no other prior version of Windows already installed. Product ships in a white envelope.
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I think, we will see drivers for USB, chipset etc at Asus web to the AM4 boards. The ame as for Kabylake. Kaby is not support Win7 too, but most of vednors did tools for USB bootable Win7 at new chipsets...Worse will be it with WinXP
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Xp is ehh. Core limited so pointless. Even win7 32 is limited in gaming. I recall titanfall needed a rig with 16gb installed to run smooth. Even 8 gig would get chewed right up and run poorly. No clue on titanfall 2. Hardcore gamers have 2 choices win 7 64 or win 10. I would not even consider win 8 as a gaming platform.
I will shift to win 10 eventually but only when i choose to. I like doing things by choice not by force.
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