Small form factor case reccomendations.

[PP Mguire]

You can install any OS on these chips.

 

[35g700]

I thought Microsoft was only supporting skylake and newer on windows 10.

 

[PP Mguire]

Supporting, doesn't mean it won't run. People tend to get these 2 confused.

 

[Joe C]

If there's a will, there's a way....

Disables the "Unsupported Hardware" message in Windows Update, and allows you to continue installing updates on Windows 7 and 8.1 systems with Intel Kaby Lake, AMD Ryzen, or other unsupported processors.

https://github.com/zeffy/wufuc

 

[PP Mguire]

Don't even think he needs that since he's upgrading to 10 for the key then using the key for 10. At least I'm assuming that was the intent. I tried installing 7 on a Skylake system, it worked but was a bitch since it had 0 USB2 ports. Least 8.1 natively supports USB3. Other than that I had no other real issues.

 

[Joe C]

yup... you have to do the F6 thing to install the usb 3.0/3.1 drivers during the Windows 7 set up install. Some boards give you an option in the bios to run virtual ps2 port through the usb (somehow?) All I know was I could use the mouse/keyboard during the install. I'll have to look up which board that was. They recommended that this option be disabled after the usb drivers got installed

 

[Joe C]

I remember what board that was now.

If you are installing Windows 7 with an optical disc drive and USB keyboard or mouse, please enable the "PS/2 Simulator" option in UEFI SETUP UTILITY > Advanced > USB Configuration.

ASRock
https://www.asrock.com/microsite/Win7Install/index.html

 

[PP Mguire]

Yup my Z270 has that option, but won't ever need it lol. I ditched all my 7 installs finally.

 

[35g700]

Got everything but the case in so I assembled it and put it on an open bench with my 2500K stock cooler. Looks like I'm stable at 5.1GHz and memory at 3200MHz. Gonna run more stress tests once I get it in the case and hooked up with my h100i v2.

 

[PP Mguire]

5.1 under a stock cooler, yea not very smart there.