AMD Ryzen CPUs to support Windows 7 with drivers

by Hilbert Hagedoorn on: 02/02/2017 06:54 PM | source: | 61 comment(s)

The lads at Computerbase noticed that AMD is hard at work with Ryzen drivers, Windows 7 is also getting fully supported opposed to what Intel is doing (Kaby lake only has full support starting at Windows 8.1).

AMD will make Ryzen fully compatible with Windows 7, which is still supported by Microsoft for another three years. The info was shared by AMD at an partner event. Basically this opens up all processor instruction sets for Window 7, as long as they are compatible with the OS of course similar to what Kaby Lake had with HEVC / 10-bit encoding driver support. Microsoft is not supporting Intel’s latest Kaby Lake range of CPUs on any OS below Windows 10, kind of weird right? We're not sure how that will detail itself in realtion to Ryzen as Microsoft clearly stated not to support new processors on older operating systems.

So there you have it, if you do not have the stomach upgrading to Windows 10. AMD have reportedly announced they will be providing drivers for Windows 7, the favourite OS of many.

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#5388569 Posted on: 02/04/2017 04:22 AM

It's more the case that they had the chance to change over and didn't want to.

Most people get the OEM version of Windows, which is largely tied to the one computer. Microsoft may have allowed you to change over the motherboard etc as it could have been considered a repair. Building a whole new computer with Ryzen I doubt that you could re-activate an existing OEM copy on it. You would either have to use a new OEM licence for Windows 7 (not sure if you can still activate new licences), a retail copy of Windows 7, or a non-genuine copy.

With a retail copy you just need to do a phone activation and then you are all good.

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