Well, I was ready to lock my system down as is on Windows 7. AMD gave a glimmer of hope that I'd upgrade one more time.nIGhT-SoN wrote:Intel does the same so every new cpu, either from Intel or AMD, you'll have to use Windows 10, if you want windows platform.
So they saved me more money than I expected.
I'm finding chipset drivers for the latest mainboards on the Intel side for Windows 7 though. *If* the drivers are there, that's all that matters.
Here's a test of the 7700k on Win7:
http://www.anandtech.com/show/10968/the ... e-champion