On Tue, 28 Nov 2017 22:02:54 -0500, Nil
wrote:

I looked into Ryzen CPUs, and it seems their support for Windows 7 is
poor or nonexistant. Their higher-end chips are not that much less
expensive than the Core i5 chips I'm looking at. If I was building a
more budget-minded computer, they would probably be under serious
consideration.

AMD's thumbing off MSFT: AMD's Windows 7 drivers are widely employed
across the whole of the Pacific Rim brand manufacturing of
motherboards.

I can't offhand say where a sexi or octal core, say, is to Ryzen
interlap across the I5 series: 1) for processor performance, 2) a
further advanced architectural bus provision given AMD's Window 7
support, over some 3) cost consideration, if at all, potentially to
surpass Intel.

I might, though, personally be interested in provision no.2 -- given I
could significantly realize cost advantages for no.1, to account and
derive a Ryzen chipset edge possibly over older Intel limitations --
both being, of course, on a Windows 7 platform.

AMD Windows 7 support obviously can't be tangibly reported back by the
industry in terms of MSFT licensing, now denying all but Windows 10
support for "newer hardware". Which is how I was impressed when
reading hardware industry Ryzen release publications. They cannot
legally commit to what MSFT has denied AMD.

Budgetary constraints and a matter of temperance, I suppose, is what
is left to commit to flagellation exercises, in the Machiavellian dens
of hardware site forums, for direct Ryzen end user driver experiences
and a Windows 7 relevancy. Were I not already budgeted nice and
plenteously by a $80 octal core Bulldozer build, from a couple months
ago;- still, I'd need the time on a Ryzen to try and form an objective
opinion of Ryzen's Windows 7 drivers, though.