Windows 8 support on newer amd chips (AMD 7735hs)

[samanthasymposium]

i have 2 questions would such a chip be supported on windows 8 or 8.1 and would ddr5 work im currently using windows 10 but want to use 8

[The-10-Pen]

The "official" answer from both AMD and from Microsoft is *no*.
But I leave the internet searches to you, I read at least two dozen and none of them would give a yes for that combo.
And of course all you get from other forums is "Win 8 is not supported" or "Win 8 is the worst OS ever".
We won't give you that answer here, but I cannot hold your hand either, nothing I can find says a yes in black and white.
But I cannot claim to find an outright "no" either.
If I were to "bet money on it", I would claim that Win 8 **DOES** work.
But you'd kind of have to try it and CONFIRM for certain.

[K4sum1]

Well yes, but not really.
It should install, but you will have no GPU driver and it wouldn't really be a good experience to use.

[The-10-Pen]

The GPU is definitely a valid point.
I guess my experience on that is that I have ran "unsupported" Win10 (LTSC 2016 and LTSC 2019) on my newest laptop (Ryzen 5).
I did have to go to LTSC 2021 as my bare minimum on that Ryzen 5 due to "preferring" hardware driver availability.
BUT... even the 2016 and 2019 "unsupported" versions of Win10 *DID* run within a "good experience".
Sure, it would only run at 1024x768 on the "attached" laptop monitor and the external HDMI was limited to the same 1024x768.
But that's still a "good experience" for many folks.
I did need to use 2021 in order to achieve 4K.
But even then, I dropped it to *under* 4K for my useage (I didn't need 4k, but I did need higher than 1024x768).

[The-10-Pen]

I am seeing some forums cite that a Win10 Radeon driver will work on Win8 just by editing some of the driver's inf files.
I have not tried this directly (but have in the past in regards to "upgrading" WinXP drivers [I had limited success, but success nonetheless]).