Windows 7 & Windows 10 SSDS + Kaby Lake i5 7600k?

[CrypticDan]

Ok, so I have 2 SSD's, one with Windows 7 as my main OS, and the other with Windows 10 as a backup OS.

Basically I'm performing a full system upgrade (Apart from the GPU).

My current system consists of

i5 4690
VII Formula MB
16GB DDR3 RAM
GTX 1060 Strix

And I want to upgrade my system to

i5 7600k
Maximus IX Code MB
16GB DDR4 RAM
GTX 1060 Strix

My system is used for gaming, video recording & editing & minor photo editing with Photoshop.

My question is this - If I upgrade to 7600K Kaby Lake, but still continue to use the Windows 7 SSD as my main OS, what are the chances the system will experience problems? (BSOD, random crashes, freezing etc).

Part of my brain says the CPU will detect that I have Windows 10 installed (Even though it's not active) and function perfectly fine, but another part of my brain says it'll just crash/ freeze etc if I'm not using Win 10.

Also, does anyone know if the 'Kaby Lake only supports Win 10' was just the integrated graphics driver?
Reason I ask, is that Intel recently released a driver for Win 7, 8 & 10, and I can't find anything anywhere, saying that's what it meant by 'Not officially supported', so if anyone knows, then it'd be very appreciated.

Thanks in advance

- Dan.

 

[MnMWizard]

This probably isn't the answer you want, but IMO you should just switch to Windows 10 altogether and use the W7 SSD for storage. Being realistic you'll have to switch eventually, and it's not as bad as people say it is (you can even turn off all the privacy settings if you care). I don't fully know of the W7 support Kaby lake offers, but if you run into problems I wouldn't expect an easy fix since your CPU doesn't officially support it. Also you may want to wait and see how Ryzen does before you buy a new CPU. If reports are true they could offer a very competitive 6C12T for (roughly) the price of an i5, so I would wait a bit and see how things pan out.

 

[CrypticDan]

This probably isn't the answer you want, but IMO you should just switch to Windows 10 altogether and use the W7 SSD for storage. Being realistic you'll have to switch eventually, and it's not as bad as people say it is (you can even turn off all the privacy settings if you care). I don't fully know of the W7 support Kaby lake offers, but if you run into problems I wouldn't expect an easy fix since your CPU doesn't officially support it. Also you may want to wait and see how Ryzen does before you buy a new CPU. If reports are true they could offer a very competitive 6C12T for (roughly) the price of an i5, so I would wait a bit and see how things pan out.

I might just switch completely as you said. I've used Windows 10 a fair bit, and I'm quite familiar with it, so it shouldn't be too difficult to get used to the slight differences between it and Win 7.

Thanks

 

[MnMWizard]

No problem!

 

[JimSmith62]

I have read several articles and seen the videos so it intrigued me. I just upgrade to Kabylake a few weeks ago and had my SSD with 10 on it, but I have always favored 7. 3 days ago I did a secure erase and installed 7 Ultimate, updates all drivers and Windows updates. Spent the later half of today running Prime95 and had ZERO problems thus far. I don't game but would be interested in trying it out to either prove me wrong or prove everyone else wrong. What game can I try out to see if my setup will crash? http://imageshack.com/a/img924/2661/IOYv2F.jpg

 

[CrypticDan]

I have read several articles and seen the videos so it intrigued me. I just upgrade to Kabylake a few weeks ago and had my SSD with 10 on it, but I have always favored 7. 3 days ago I did a secure erase and installed 7 Ultimate, updates all drivers and Windows updates. Spent the later half of today running Prime95 and had ZERO problems thus far. I don't game but would be interested in trying it out to either prove me wrong or prove everyone else wrong. What game can I try out to see if my setup will crash?

I'd say if you want to see how the CPU performs in games, try running Cities Skylines, which is a very cpu intensive game (It's a city building game and it has a lot of AI calculations & simulation data) I recommend downloading the GTA 5 map as that is a good map to benchmark due to the city being fully built & 100% functional.

You can compare your results with others who have benchmarked Cities Skylines as they usually use the GTA 5 map for their benchmarks. If you do decide to test Cities Skylines - Let us know how it goes

I would like to know how it performs as I play Cities Skylines a lot and am also wondering how it would perform on Win 7 with a CPU that "doesn't" support Win 7.

- Dan