wanting to dualboot windows 7 on a newer gen cpu

[Clearviper]

so i really want to dual boot windows 7 on my i9 11900kf im not sure if thats possiable maybes theres patches or something but i wanted to come here first and ask and see if there is anyway to windows 7 to install on 11th gen reguardless or not of updates?  

specs

11900kf

1060 6gb <--- 3080 died so i dont have it anymore

 

[RONOTHAN##]

On a few motherboards, yes it's possible (people have even gotten XP to work up through 14th gen), but it's a lot of effort to go about doing. The biggest issue with this is storage and USB drivers if you can even find them, and you need to slipstream them into the Windows 7 ISO to get this to have a shot at working. Finding these drivers is next to impossible a lot of the time, with the only boards having a moderately high success rate for it being the XOC boards like the Apex and Dark since Windows 7 just works better for a few benchmarks and thus for those specific boards the effort is put into making the drivers work to gain that 1/10th of a second advantage for world records. 

 

Because of that last point though, the best place to find help for this would actually be to go over to an XOC oriented forum like HWBot instead of here. Those folks do this much more frequently and can give better advice on how to go about it than most of us could. Just know that the process of getting this to work sucks and the rewards really aren't worth it if you're not one of those folks running benchmarks competitively. 

[GreenLeaf]

1 hour ago, Clearviper said:

1060 6gb <--- 3080 died so i dont have it anymore

 

my condolences 

[Clearviper]

16 minutes ago, GreenLeaf said:

my condolences 

Honestly tho the 1060 is still a great card however at some point im still going to get another card im thinking of a 4080 super 

[GreenLeaf]

yeah me too

i wanted a 4090 but my wallet didn't

i am stuck to ngreedia cause of blender and cause i edit a lot etc.

[GreenLeaf]

38 minutes ago, Clearviper said:

Honestly tho the 1060 is still a great card however at some point im still going to get another card im thinking of a 4080 super 

if you are only gaming go for a 7900XTX

[coopersilva]

I completely get whats going on here. you are just like me, you want windows 7 on your modern pc, i have my i7 1165g7 laptop andf i tried for weeks to get 7 working on it, never fully could without doing some crazy tricks with windows 10. apparently 10th gen and older works much better. my desktop is 7th gen and runs windows 7 great. I really hope someone makes a proper windows 7 extended kernel with modern driver support. I sell computers as well refurbished ones i refurbish them myself. i hope windows 7 support catches up before i get in any computers to my repair bench that have 11th gen processors because than i wouldnt be able to sell them efficiently. but what i refurbish currently is nothing newer than 4th gen, i have only recieved one 7th gen laptop but never anything else. 2nd and 3rd gen is the usual, but i get the occasional core 2 duo. anyways good luck, my best advice would unfortunately be to get a new computer. also i reccomend against the 40 series for windows 7. the 30 series fully supports if im not mistaken, but double check it before maiking purchases. i would reccomend a 10th gen intel processor, and a 30 series gpu. but only if you are confident in yourself, but you should be, and you can feel free to reach out for any questions you have. Ill update you if i have anything new.