PC Processors

[atziluth]

My current operating system is win7,The motherboard is x470,CPU is 2600.I want to change the CPU to 3700x.Does anyone know that my current system will continue to work?

[black_zion]

Ryzen CPUs are not officially supported on Windows 7 by either AMD or Microsoft. Also, Windows 7 has less than a year before it is end of life, so you need to upgrade to Windows 10 now.

[hardcoregames_]

Ryzen are designed for Windows 10 only, they are not intended for running earlier versions of Windows

no drivers exist and windows 10 still takes windows 7 keys

[sumark]

There are no 3rd Gen AMD Ryzen X470 Drivers & Support | AMD chipset drivers for W7 yet (and I am afraid there will never be one). You should be fine with the 2600 though. I am having the same dilema, either wait for something with uncertain prospects or switch to Linux (once the rdrand/systemd issue will settle down).

Edit: I've created a ticket for AMD to get the information, whether they do plan to release (at all) chipset driver for 3rd Gen Ryzens, similar to what they did to 2nd Gen. I will post the reply here, unless somebody from AMD will decide to comment.

[benman2785]

pls dont run ANY Ryzen in Win7

AMD + MS built a better scheduler for Win10 that works great with Ryzen - AND ONLY Win10 has this