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Windows 7 upgrade to windows 10/11???

Friday November 8, 2024. 01:55 AM , from Gearslutz
Hi folks

In 2021 I did a long overdue rebuild of my production machine, which was based around an intel i7 2600s CPU.

The new machine is built upon a AMD Ryzen 9 3900xt CPU, 32gb DDR4 ram, on an ASUS Prime B350 plus motherboard, with an M2ssd system drive.

At the time (without me knowing) windows 7 wasn’t compatible with this motherboard, specifically the M2 driver needed to instal as a system drive. After about a week of headbutting, I managed to find a tool that would let me hack M2 drivers into windows 7, & boot an Install, & from there use compatible drivers from another motherboard to get it all up & running.

The system works fine (though windows restore is broken), & I’ve been using it for 3 years now. The thing I’ve bumped against though is there is now a lot of software that has dropped windows 7 support, typically blocking install & requesting driver components not available within windows 7 (I’ve tried thoroughly to hack these as well, but there’s no workaround).

So my question is, is it worth updating to windows 10/11, over my currently (mostly) working system? Will the newer OS give a performance boost, considering they’re designed with this hardware generation catered for natively?

Or is the upgrade not worth it to chase newer software?

Anyone have similar experience with this scenario?
https://gearspace.com/board/showthread.php?t=1437980&goto=newpost

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