will a windows 7/8 motherboards support windows 10?

[Stoic Muffins]

I was wondering if my Gigabyte G1Sniper5 motherboard will support windows ten?

 

[Dark Lord of Tech]

More than likely yes.

 

[PsyKhiqZero]

I doubt MS would do anything that would keep people from upgrading from Win 7. So yes, there should be no reason it won't work.

 

[drtweak]

I installed Windows 10 on my old ASUS P5N-D Socket 775, C2Q Q9550, 4 GB DDR2, Nvidia 6800 - No issues

 

[Dark Lord of Tech]

If your running 7 or 8 , 10 will run.

 

[Stoic Muffins]

could I build a new system with a z87 board and use windows 10 only? or would i need a different windows to upgrade from

 

[Dark Lord of Tech]

The Windows 10 is only a preview.

 

[bobh0905]

Absolutely, definitely not guaranteed. Though I would suspect that it will depend on the age of your motherboard. In my own case, I did a clean install of Windows 10 and had no problems. Over the next few days occasional things didn't work as expected, and I put it down to teething problems. My webcam wasn't detected. I bought a new Microsoft one, and that didn't work either. A search of the internet revealed lots of people with the same problem. Annoyed that a current Microsoft webcam didn't work with Microsoft's current operating system, I returned the camera.
Then I found that my disk mirroring was no longer working, and couldn't be re-established. A search for any current motherboard/BIOS drivers on the manufacturers website revealed that my motherboard wasn't compatible, and wasn't supported, with Windows 10. So I'm left with a board that appears to work most of the time, but if anything doesn't work, I have no way of knowing whether it's the board, or the software. And as the only way to fix it is to buy a new board, I suspect that my free Windows 10 installation will refuse to be free any more as it'll effectively be being installed on a different machine.
Not terribly happy.
Check your motherboards compatibility online before taking the plunge. (Incidentally I really like Windows 10, just wish it had warned me that it was installing on a motherboard that was known to not 100% compatible)

 

[drtweak]

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[bobh0905]

But Windows 10 free upgrade is still available unil the end of this month.

 

[Stoic Muffins]

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