A DIE-HARD WINDOWS 7 USER'S RANT ON MODERN CPU UPGRADE PATHS [POST-2027]

Ok, so it’s Friday the 13th.
I don’t like the number for sure, but I like the day of the week.
We finally made another one, so congratulations to all of you who are reading this!

Today’s topic is a modern hardware like CPUs, NVME drives, or whatever for Windows 7 users.
Of course, we’re talking here about AMD stuff, processors that have real cores, not mobile ones.

Since the recent AI hype, various wars across planet Earth, and a bit of ugly behavior from AMD,
prices for high-tech products have been jacked up on a wild scale.
That’s why I’m no longer suggesting [Threadripper] or [Epyc] , despite the fact that they look
very attractive for creative people, thanks to their 8-channel/12-channel memory controller.
But insane prices annihilate all attempts even to dream about such things.
Maybe when quantum computing emerges as a real new thing for consumers,
we’ll be able to buy secondhand Rippers and Epyc CPUs from some imaginary high-tech
company that went bankrupt after the AI hype train crashes into a dead-end brick wall.

So, back to the real consumer world. The upcoming [Medusa Zen 6] architecture is announced
to be 100% compatible with the AM5 socket. What’s even more interesting is that Zen 7,
marketed under the name Penelope, will be 80–90% targeted at the AM5 socket again,
making it the most long-lived consumer socket ever.
Saying hi here to the obnoxious blue team of greed and stagnation.

Predictions of Zen 7 compatibility with the AM5 socket are based on insane RAM prices due to
trolling actions by people like Elon Musk and all the investors of the AI hype train.
Manufacturers will surely not switch to ultra-expensive DDR6 memory in the foreseeable future.

Sticking to that logic, Zen 8 should be the first AMD chip targeted at DDR6 and PCIe6 around 2030.
Grok predicted a similar scenario, and ChatGPT agreed with me on that.
So Windows 7 users are safeguarded by at least two generations of Ryzen CPUs.
We’ll define them as 10950X [Zen 6] and 11950X [Zen 7]. 12950x or Zen 8 will be highly likely incompatible
with Windows 7 due to removal CSM module from modern motherboards. Asrock has already done so.

Talking about memory it is already extremely fast, and now it’s uber expensive on top of that,
so any purchase is out of the question, and for God’s sake 64Gb of RAM is enough for any of my workloads.

As for SSD storage: observing the recent NVMe PCIe 5 champion, the [Western Digital SN8100 2TB] ,
it’s quite overwhelming for Windows 7 needs [sequential read is blazing fast ~ 14GB/s].
Keep in mind that such speeds are strictly unnecessary because the operating system was made at a time
when generic spinning hard drives dominated the market. So it is optimized for slow drives quite good.
But it’s surely nice to have drives like SN8100 in mind just in case while waiting prices to drop to reasonable values.
By the way, such drives are necessity for a modern crap like Windows 11, due to its extremely slow and bloated codebase.

Uff, that was definitely a long type….
That’s it for today, hope that you learn something useful and see ya next time!