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Right this is misinformation same kind of misinformation that happened with Kabe Lake, the processors will work in Windows7 but just that like the Kabe Lake boards from Intel most of components have moved into the die of the CPU. What no one seems to remember is that Kabe Lake's built in USB controller has no compatible drivers on the Windows 7 install image, the biggest problem anyone installing Window7 had was their USB keyboards and mice not working during the installation and if you have nothing but the a basic board you are right up shit creek.
But manufacturers got around this by having a I/O chip (extender that sits on the PCI-E bus) that added cost free PS/2 keyboard & mouse support, PCI functionality, and then just having extra USB controllers that have Win7 drivers. Some even made tools that patched the Win7 ISO with compatible drivers. Fine for anyone with a little bit of knowledge but the long and short of it is no systems sold with Ryzen (laptops, Dell PC's etc) will come with Windows7. (Kaveri laptops aren't even properly supported in Win7)
You do lose out on instructions that Win7 was simply not or will ever be patched to support the instructions and features Ryzen has but it will be bootable, there will be workarounds, you can avoid 8 & 10 if you really wanted to. You could just learn about iommu passthrough, use any old half decent Linux distro and setup a virtualized copy of Windows with drivers which are allowed have direct access to your GPU so no game should throw a stinker when you want to play it and you'd avoid a serious amount of Microsofts bullshit.
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[–] Gamio 0 points 4 points 4 points (+4|-0) ago
Right this is misinformation same kind of misinformation that happened with Kabe Lake, the processors will work in Windows7 but just that like the Kabe Lake boards from Intel most of components have moved into the die of the CPU. What no one seems to remember is that Kabe Lake's built in USB controller has no compatible drivers on the Windows 7 install image, the biggest problem anyone installing Window7 had was their USB keyboards and mice not working during the installation and if you have nothing but the a basic board you are right up shit creek.
But manufacturers got around this by having a I/O chip (extender that sits on the PCI-E bus) that added cost free PS/2 keyboard & mouse support, PCI functionality, and then just having extra USB controllers that have Win7 drivers. Some even made tools that patched the Win7 ISO with compatible drivers. Fine for anyone with a little bit of knowledge but the long and short of it is no systems sold with Ryzen (laptops, Dell PC's etc) will come with Windows7. (Kaveri laptops aren't even properly supported in Win7)
You do lose out on instructions that Win7 was simply not or will ever be patched to support the instructions and features Ryzen has but it will be bootable, there will be workarounds, you can avoid 8 & 10 if you really wanted to. You could just learn about iommu passthrough, use any old half decent Linux distro and setup a virtualized copy of Windows with drivers which are allowed have direct access to your GPU so no game should throw a stinker when you want to play it and you'd avoid a serious amount of Microsofts bullshit.
[–] DigitalTendencies 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/2990941
It is possible to add the drivers in. It mentions for NVMe drive but you can just give it the USB3 drivers instead.