Installing Windows 7 for recent Intel chipsets (like Coffee Lake)

[TDeacon]

This guy claims it's do-able.  Anyone seen this video?  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8VTC4k6SLWY  Comments?

MH

[Bizman]

A few things to consider:

Unofficial patch - Who has coded it, does it include counter engineered Windows code against the EULA?
Support by a volunteer group for free on Facebook. For how long?
What if you brick your computer by following their advise? Whom would you blame?

Feel free to experiment but note it's on your own responsibility and expense.

[Skuzzy]

It has always been doable.

There are two problems.

1)  There is no microcode for the newer CPU's (AMD/Intel) available for Windows 7.  It is not actually required, as Windows will fall back to x86 mode (80386 compatible), which limits a lot of the potential performance gains a newer CPU could bring.

2)  There are no motherboard chipset drivers for the later chipsets required to allow the new CPU's to run.  Again, Windows will fall back to x86 mode which places a lot of limitations in the performance of the chipsets and also eliminates any newer technology available in the new chipsets.

Bottom line:  Sure you can run the new CPU/chipsets, but chances are you are going to give up performance in doing so.  Some functionality will go away as well, like USB 3.1.

Getting around Microsoft's block of updates is trivial, but those updates will not install the drivers which do not exist.

It really is a waste of time.

[icepac]

Does anybody know the "cutoff" where this occurs?

Would an early gtx1060 revert to x86 mode with win 7?

[mikeWe9a]

Does anybody know the "cutoff" where this occurs?

Would an early gtx1060 revert to x86 mode with win 7?

The reversion would be for the CPU, not the graphics card.  If there is a Windows 7 driver for the graphics card, the graphics card should work, so long as there is support for the chipset controlling the bus.

[Drano]

It'd be different from mobo to mobo. To tell you the truth I was apprehensive about my system booting up when I got my 1060. I'd read it MIGHT not be compatible with my bios or chipset drivers, the newest versions were from like 2013! But... It worked! One way to find out!

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[TDeacon]

Does anybody know the "cutoff" where this occurs?

Would an early gtx1060 revert to x86 mode with win 7?

Never heard of GTX 10xx cards having difficulties with Win7.  I am using Win7 with a GTX 1070, and I get over 100 fps in AH, with everything at max.  I cut back to 1K textures to allow better visibilities of cons, tracers, and hit sprites (make them larger).