WINDOWS 7 POWER ▀ 256 THREADS / 192GB RAM OR EVEN MORE?

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WINDOWS 7 POWER ▀ 256 THREADS / 192GB RAM OR EVEN MORE?

UPDATED ON: 2023-11-29
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Power of vintage 2009 operating system by microsoft can’t be underestimated.
[Windows 7 x64] supports up to 256 cores and up to 192Gb of RAM.
How cool is that, huh?

256 thread CPU appeared only a [short time ago] .

░ H#RDWARE
TECHNOLOGIES PARAMETERS
MAX CPU SOCKETS 2
MAX CPU CORES 128
MAX CPU THREADS 256
MAX MOBO RAM 192Gb [or even bigger]1
MODERN CPUs Ryzen 7xxx / 8xxx / Threadripper 5xxx 2
MODERN GPUs Radeon 6950XT 3
Geforce 3090 Ti 4
NVME SUPPORT YUP [+] 5
USB3 SUPPORT AHA [+] 6
░ SOFTW@RE
TECHNOLOGIES PARAMETERS
UEFI SUPPORT EXTERNAL [+] 7
DIRECT X 11.1 [12.0] 8
VISUAL C++ LIBS 2003-2023 9
SECURITY PATCHES October 10, 2024 [POS updates] 10 / 11 / 12
VIRTUALIZATION VirtualBox 6.x 13 / VMware 15.x 14
MODERN WEB Firefox [v115 ESR/ v116 / v117a1 Nightly] 15 / 16
chrome-based stuff Thorium 109 / Supermium 118 / Catsxp 119 17
PYTHON v3.8.15 [v3.9-3.12] 18
BLENDER v2.92 [up to v4.0b] 19


44-core BROADWELL XEON E5-2696v4 [2016] IN ACTION




WINDOWS 7 x64 SP2+ ESU
15 YEARS OF EXCELLENCE
October 22, 2009 - October 10, 2024



CONSIDERING ABOVE MENTIONED FACTS WINDOWS 7 WILL EASILY
OUTLIVE WINDOWS 10 / 11 IN TERMS OF LIFESPAN!


Note that [Win-Raid forum thread] is very helpful in driver trickery.

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  1. 192Gb of RAM is purely artificial limitation.
    Bigger amounts can be achieved by means of [registry hack] [ZwQueryLicenseValue]. ↩︎

  2. Support of modern AMD chipsets is possible via [CanonKong USB3 driver]
    x570/x670/wrx80 are supported, however beware of exceptions! ↩︎

  3. [AMD driver 22.6.1] Last driver for Windows 7. ↩︎

  4. [Nvidia driver October 2023] [direct link]
    Nvidia security driver updates [till october 2024] . ↩︎

  5. NVME technology is not supported out of the box in gold release of Windows 7.
    Appropriate NVME drivers can be installed from manufacturer’s website or slip streamed into OS ISO image. ↩︎

  6. USB3 technology is not supported out of the box in gold release of Windows 7.
    Appropriate USB3 drivers can be installed from manufacturer’s website or slip streamed into OS ISO image. ↩︎

  7. [UEFISeven] is an efi module that enables Windows 7 to boot under UEFI Class 3 systems. ↩︎

  8. DirectX 12.0 [is possible] if developer of software will include required support into the product. ↩︎

  9. [Download latest VC++ (2003-2023) libs]  ↩︎

  10. Windows Embedded POS Ready 7 will receive updates [till October 8 2024] .
     ↩︎

  11. Simplix confirmed that updates for embedded devices will be included in his pack,
    meaning that EOL of [Simplix updater] matches EOL for POS updates [October 10, 2024]. ↩︎

  12. Opatch announced support [till January 2025] in worst case scenario. ↩︎

  13. [VirtualBox 6.1.48] latest Windows 7 version ↩︎

  14. [VMware 15.5.7] latest Windows 7 version ↩︎

  15. Last version of Firefox is finally determined. It is 115 ESR, but for our good fortune [v116 and v117a1 can be executed also] .
    And will be supported at least [till the end of 2024] , highly doubt that it will be the last version of Firefox under Windows 7.
    Hackers will emerge surely, even vintage Windows XP has Firefox 68 ESR.
     ↩︎

  16. Latest alpha versions [confirmed to work] in Windows 7 x64 ↩︎

  17. [Thorium 109] performance fork of chrome 109
    [Supermium 118] independent fork of modern chrome
    [CatsXP 119] Chinese fork of actual chrome ↩︎

  18. More information on hacked Python 3.9-3.12 versions can be obtained [HERE] . ↩︎

  19. More information on hacked up to Blender 4.0b versions can be obtained [HERE] .
     ↩︎