MY DAILY DRIVER RIG BASED UPON RYZEN 5950X RUNNING WINDOWS 7

2021-08-16

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UPDATE: 2021-08-19 Added some benchmarks for more clearness.

Internet is swarming with amateurish articles about “incompatibility” of modern hardware with legacy Windows 7 operating system.

In fact, it is 100% proven misconception.

░ COMPUTER CONFIGURATION

CPU: AMD Ryzen 5950X 16c/32t 3.4 @ 4.4Ghz

MOBO: Asus Aorus x570 Ultra

COOLER: Noctua NH-D15 SE AM4

RAM: 64Gb DDR4 HyperX 3600@3800Mhz

SYSTEM DISK: 1Tb Samsung 980 Pro NVME

DATA DISK #1: 1Tb Samsung QVO SSD

DATA DISK #2: 2Tb Seagate Firecuda sHDD [8Gb SSD cache]

VIDEO: Asrock Radeon 6900XT 16Gb VRAM

SOUND: Asus Essense STX II

PSU: SeaSonic Gold 1300 Watt

MONITOR: NEC PA301W

CASE: Fractal Design Define S2 White

KEYS: Topre RealForce RGB

MOUSE: A4Tech cheap mouse

SPEAKERS: Edifier R2800 Speakers

OS: Windows 7 SP2+ x64 ESU

5950X running Windows 7 x64 desktop

Who said that it is not modern enough?

░ COMMENTS ON RIG INTERNALS

Rig is 100% working. I can do what ever i want. Blender, Affinity Photo, Renoise, Ableton, Vegas, whatever.

Previously to Ryzen 5000 build i have 1st-gen Threadripper 1950x on x399 chipset. And I have to admit that consumer x570 despite the fact that it is not supported it works much better than x399 which actually was supported and marked as for professionals.

What a mad world we live in. But, yeah, this is normal.

The most complex part is USB chipset drivers and support of modern ssd drives. I’m talking about NVME ones. Windows 7 have essential support of such type of drives, but it adds with a patch, which was conveniently [intentionally] removed from sucky ms hotfix site.

By default Windows 7 installer can’t detect USB mouse and keyboard on modern chipsets like x570.

PS/2 connector is not present at modern motherboards, so…… we got to find another way.

░ SOLVING ARTIFICIAL DIFFICULTIES

There are two solutions which can solve our installation problem.

Integrate needed USB and NVME drivers by Canonkong into Windows 7 installer via NTlite . Pretty advanced. If you want more simple way here it is.
Find already precompiled ISO, which was made by other users. I recommend Generation2 builds . Link to fresh July 2021 build .

If provided links do not work then your ISP is blocking “unwanted” resources. Use VPN or Tor Browser to undo their pathetic restrictions. Usually custom builds already come with ripped microsoft shit like “inability” to work under Windows 7 with modern CPUs. Thanks to Zeffy we have Wufuc utility which lifts these moron limitations.

I also advice you to check out SYSTEM HACKS section of my blog.

As for video adapters, current high end generation 6900XT even has official drivers from AMD . Final version was released on 2021/6/21. So green light here.