Windows 7 on skylake

>>56341814
first, are you a gamer?
if not use linux and save money

>>56341856

> first, are you a gamer?

Yes.

And I use linux at work and the only thing I like about it is the shell. I don't think I can be bothered to use it at home.

I did it last week. You need Windows 7 usb patcher (I used Asus one I think) or Intel Windows patcher tool to do it (it adds USB drivers for install). But all drivers vere missing for me after install so I booted lubuntu live USB stick and moved network and USB drivers to PC hard drive, then booted it and installed the drivers.

Currently everything works but it's a hassle, took me a while.

>>56341814
Given the problem is USB drivers, you should have no issue booting your existing installation.

>>56341995

So you didn't try to boot from an existing installation of win7? I wonder if i can just do what you did with the drivers from within windows, before i transfer my SSD to the new box.

After you jumped through all the hoops, everything works perfectly? Do you get USB 3 speeds?

>>56341814
When doing the usb install, do it on an old non skylake computer. When it completes the first half and wants to restart, shut down your pc. Put your OS drive into your skylake build and continue the install.

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>Buying state of the art cpu and using it with a 10 year old OS.

>>56342115

> using spyware

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>>56342115
>buying any type of CPU and using it with the worst OS ever made

>>56342053
Yes, Intel has all the drivers needed. Mine was a laptop, so I had various other Intel drivers and win 7 is nicely supported, last driver update from this month.

My laptop didn't have DVD and other devices did not work out of the box so I had to do the live ubuntu USB workaround.

>>56341814
1151 socket here, installed win7 with an usb drive twice this month. no issues or anything.. just needed to use a docking on my hdd afterwards since there were no usable drivers on my pc.

>>56341814
You can literally use google to answer this question, retard