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I look at this as just another reason to instead get a used I7-4xxx CPU/mainboard from Ebay. Hardware is fast enough, all I really want are AES acceleration and SSE4, two things which this Phenom II does not provide. As a bonus, it will be significantly cheaper and I will not need to buy new memory.
So go ahead, AMD. Cut off Windows 7 support early, in spite of it still getting patches for the next three years and commanding more than half of the PC market.
I don't think it's the chip manufacturer who patches the operating system to support new instructions, at least not with proprietary operating systems.
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[–] skidmark-steve 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
I look at this as just another reason to instead get a used I7-4xxx CPU/mainboard from Ebay. Hardware is fast enough, all I really want are AES acceleration and SSE4, two things which this Phenom II does not provide. As a bonus, it will be significantly cheaper and I will not need to buy new memory.
So go ahead, AMD. Cut off Windows 7 support early, in spite of it still getting patches for the next three years and commanding more than half of the PC market.
[–] Demose ago
I don't think it's the chip manufacturer who patches the operating system to support new instructions, at least not with proprietary operating systems.