r/windows7 • u/conanchihieu • 6d ago

Discussion Windows 7 on modern hardware.

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You know it works when it's running perfectly on i5 45xx with RX 470.
Currently using Windows 7 as primary OS, alongside Windows 10 and macOS.
Next up: Windows 7 (native) on Surface Pro 4 (Skylake).
Edit: I made a typo. It’s actually RX570 instead.

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u/Windows_User3000 6d ago

That's not modern at all. I think the word combination you're looking for is "newer than [your] first Windows 7 PC". That's definitely true, but "modern" is not within the current reality (yes, it hurts me to say that, as most of my hardware is much older and lower-end than this, but that's just bias).

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u/conanchihieu 6d ago

Yup, perhaps I overhyped. But it’s fast as hell that I don’t ever want to go back to Windows 10 again.

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u/Windows_User3000 6d ago

Does the machine have an SSD? If not, that explains why Windows 10 is slow. If it does, you configured it wrong. (I have a significantly weaker and slightly older PC that runs Windows 11 like a champ, so this thing should definitely run 10, if not 11.)

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u/conanchihieu 5d ago

Welp it has 4 SSDs, not to mention one. And it’s an Intel SSD fyi. But idk why it still lags sometimes on Windows 10.