Will Win 7 run well on Ryzen? Vendors don’t care at all about Win 7 since it’s at end of life. Nobody will be writing new drivers. And AMD is competing for the future.

I can’t imagine dropping a 7 year old very proprietary Dell/ Intel image onto a completely new AMD platform running an obsolete operating system without problems. My Ryzen 2nd gen motherboard has gone through 5 bios updates... it’s just starting to shake down.

I understand your reluctance to go through all the hoops... copy protection is horrible and arcane, much like the American medical “system”. I’m getting ready to retire my Haswell production machine and move to my experimental Ryzen, which I feel is just about ready for audio work. It’s gonna be a huge PITA. But the old machine is wheezing and my Komplete is incomplete... doesn’t even work. If I’m going to go through massive reinstalls, might as well do it on shiny newish hardware.

If you want to keep things as they are, why change in the first place? If you are comfortable, stay put. If you need to move on, jump in and let go of the past,

resistorman wrote:Will Win 7 run well on Ryzen? Vendors don’t care at all about Win 7 since it’s at end of life. Nobody will be writing new drivers. And AMD is competing for the future.

I can’t imagine dropping a 7 year old very proprietary Dell/ Intel image onto a completely new AMD platform running an obsolete operating system without problems. My Ryzen 2nd gen motherboard has gone through 5 bios updates... it’s just starting to shake down.

I understand your reluctance to go through all the hoops... copy protection is horrible and arcane, much like the American medical “system”. I’m getting ready to retire my Haswell production machine and move to my experimental Ryzen, which I feel is just about ready for audio work. It’s gonna be a huge PITA. But the old machine is wheezing and my Komplete is incomplete... doesn’t even work. If I’m going to go through massive reinstalls, might as well do it on shiny newish hardware.

If you want to keep things as they are, why change in the first place? If you are comfortable, stay put. If you need to move on, jump in and let go of the past,

Probably the best advice so far AFAICT?

Start the new machine afresh with W10 and keep the old one as is.
Much as I dislike W10 it is the latest OS and hardware and DAWs etc will be catering for it. This HP laptop (g6, i3, 8G ram) will stay W7 but offline at some point. A bigger AMD desktop will also keep W7 and not go on the net. I am looking for a W10 laptop for internet and "office" duties. OP has the opposite problem.

I also have a very basic W7 machine that really just runs a printer/scanner. That will stay W7 and on the net (doesn't go there at all often) as a test rig to see how long it takes to get *****d up!

Dave.

Yeah, I'm also going to be amazed if there is full W7 driver support for any X570 board, most of the tech the range features has only come into existance since support was dropped for W7 & W8 OS builds.

The Asus page only lists W10 for driver support.
I wouldn't put W7 on the latest AMD platform even if you gave me a full retail license.
A fine O/S, in its day. :shock:

Has it been determined that the OP is going with a 570? There seems to be support for Win 7 64bit for the 470.

Not that I disagree with the advice to go Win 10 - personally I think that would be best, and if the OP has to purchase a new license then absolutely 100% Win 10.

n o i s e f l e ur wrote:Has it been determined that the OP is going with a 570? There seems to be support for Win 7 64bit for the 470.

Not that I disagree with the advice to go Win 10 - personally I think that would be best, and if the OP has to purchase a new license then absolutely 100% Win 10.

Yes I'm going with a 570 noisefleur. I had alredy made my mind about that. I'm now seriously considering moving to W10.

resistorman wrote: If you want to keep things as they are, why change in the first place? If you are comfortable, stay put. If you need to move on, jump in and let go of the past

That's a great motivational statement, thanks :lol: (I'm quite serious)

ef37a wrote: Start the new machine afresh with W10 and keep the old one as is.

Yes I would like to and that would probaly make things easier but the thing is I'm upgrading my system, not building a seperate one from scratch. Some of the components will stay the same (PSU, GPU, HDD, computer case) so I wont have 2 computers running a the same time. I thought about getting a cheap GPU, PSU, HDD and case and sell my old machine for 3-400$ to cover a part of the latest purchase but I'm just afraid I'll get stuck with it. AND I already went way over the inital 700$ budget even without taking into account the W10 license.

Thank you all guys for you amazing response. I've been more active on my other thread but I seem to have sorted pretty much everything system upgrade related for now.

Now, if you feel like it you guys can just throw any ideas, suggestions, hints and tricks at me on how to proceed from preparing for my backups to the clean install, new OS set up. I have a good idea of how to do it but I'm sure some of you guys have tricks up your sleeves I don't even know exist. Keep in mind, It's my first major upgrade/build, first clean install. 7 years ago before buying my now old PC I was working on hardware only. I have changed drive/gpu/sound board before and I know wires so the hardware set up doesn't worry me too much but the soft side of it is what makes me uncomfortable.

I know there's YouTube an Google and I'm already on that but you knwo having a custom response sometimes is the best and you guys been amazing from the first day I posted here, really I wasn't expecting a 10th of the help I received, I wouldn't have been able to get all that infomation by myself. Thanks a lot again!