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| Author: | samanthasymposium [ 24 Aug 2026, 20:00 ] |
| Post subject: | Windows 8 support on newer amd chips (AMD 7735hs) |
| 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 |
| Author: | The-10-Pen [ 24 Aug 2026, 22:30 ] |
| Post subject: | Windows 8 support on newer amd chips (AMD 7735hs) |
| 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. |
| Author: | K4sum1 [ 24 Aug 2026, 22:34 ] |
| Post subject: | Windows 8 support on newer amd chips (AMD 7735hs) |
| 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. |
| Author: | The-10-Pen [ 25 Aug 2026, 07:53 ] |
| Post subject: | Windows 8 support on newer amd chips (AMD 7735hs) |
| 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). |
| Author: | The-10-Pen [ 25 Aug 2026, 08:37 ] |
| Post subject: | Windows 8 support on newer amd chips (AMD 7735hs) |
| 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]). |
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