what skylake motherboard for windows 7?

[philipma1957]

Okay I am build a new pc for a friend.

He wants 32gb ram

room for a nvidia 960
room for a 192 sound card


he needs to run windows 7

I am struggling as to what to get him I have some gear on hand.

I have a i5 3470s I have to buy ram and z77 mobos are hard to find.



I have a i5 6600k
I have a i5 6500t
I have a i5 6400t

I have had a lot of trouble with skylark builds.
1 bad cpu
1 bad mobo
a mobo with a lot of picky ness with ram.

I am running an asus mobo right now kind of flakey with windows 7 pro

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produ...132566&cm_re=asus_z170-_-13-132-566-_-Product


I am returning this one :

it shuts down every 4 to 7 hours

http://www.amazon.com/Gigabyte-LGA1...&redirect=true&ref_=oh_aui_detailpage_o01_s00

I am returning this one : boot loops

http://www.amazon.com/ASRock-DDR4-M...&redirect=true&ref_=oh_aui_detailpage_o06_s00


this one is a full rma to gigabyte:


http://www.amazon.com/Gigabyte-LGA1...id=1463625060&sr=1-1&keywords=gigabyte+z170+7



this one below seems to run okay:


http://www.amazon.com/Gigabyte-LGA1...&redirect=true&ref_=oh_aui_detailpage_o02_s00

So I am inclined to think this will be good for window 7 build:

http://www.amazon.com/Gigabyte-LGA1...&qid=1463625188&sr=1-2&keywords=gigabyte+h170


So does anyone have any windows 7 build on this mobo? tia

 

[nerp]

Why insist on skylake and Windows 7? It's not going to be supported much going forward. Might as well go with the previous generation if you insist on running 7. Think of how much easier it will be. Or, run windows 10.

 

[VirtualLarry]

ASRock Z170 Pro4S ATX works great with Windows 7, including an SM951 AHCI PCI-E M.2 SSD.

 

[Burpo]

$80 for Z170.. Hard to beat..
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produ...Fp6lSIEgMXe1oWuBLx-2ZBoCui7w_wcB&gclsrc=aw.ds

 

[Ketchup]

I have never seen a person on these or other forums have that many motherboard RMAs at one time. And a bad CPU is a once-in-a-lifetime deal, if ever. Your friend might be better off with a pre-built system.

 

[vailr]

If you simply stay with those boards that include Realtek ALC1150 audio, then the overall board quality should also be good enough for long-term stability. I prefer Gigabyte boards which include the dual bios feature, and is also the brand generally recommended for running OSX.
http://www.tonymacx86.com/buyersguide/may/2016
Of course: always use the latest motherboard bios for optimal compatibility.

 

[philipma1957]

Why insist on skylake and Windows 7? It's not going to be supported much going forward. Might as well go with the previous generation if you insist on running 7. Think of how much easier it will be. Or, run windows 10.

He has thousands in software that will not run on windows 10 or 8.

He has a cnc for building various pieces of furniture.

I am thinking I will use the gigabyte b75 as it runs great with windows 7

most of his work is in house.
He is stilling running in xp the software he has finally will work on windows 7 thus windows 7.

@ vailr he is putting in a sound card that up samples to 192 as his secondary business is building speakers.

@ At Ketchup

I have never had as much trouble with building pc's as I have had with skylake.

Cpus that don't post
An truly dead CPU
mobo's that boot loop
mobo's that die and need an rma

 

[Ketchup]

As I said, the big names have alraeady done the testing for you. Just buy something cheap ( but decent) and add Windows 7 and some more RAM. For the use described, the integrated graphics will be fine.

 

[biostud]

Why not get a X99 board with either a 5820k or Broadwell-E 6800k, when it launches.

 

[Fallen Kell]

To be absolutely honest with you, I would seriously look into putting CentOS linux on modern hardware, and then setup a virtual machine to run WinXP or Win7 (or any other windows version), and setup hardware passthru for the PCI, PCIe, or USB devices to the virtual machine that are needed to control the CNC and other equipment.

There are HUGE benefits to doing this. You can use modern CPUs and chipsets, you can create a complete virtual machine snapshot and backup which you can always revert to if a patch for windows breaks his setup, and you can simply transfer the virtual machine snapshot to a new computer in a few years from now if the old one starts to suffer issues.

 

[philipma1957]

To be absolutely honest with you, I would seriously look into putting CentOS linux on modern hardware, and then setup a virtual machine to run WinXP or Win7 (or any other windows version), and setup hardware passthru for the PCI, PCIe, or USB devices to the virtual machine that are needed to control the CNC and other equipment.

There are HUGE benefits to doing this. You can use modern CPUs and chipsets, you can create a complete virtual machine snapshot and backup which you can always revert to if a patch for windows breaks his setup, and you can simply transfer the virtual machine snapshot to a new computer in a few years from now if the old one starts to suffer issues.

I have done a few linux builds.
I am thinking I could build this one for him and build a linux build on another pc teach myself more about linux then I know at the moment and the make him switch.
I have 8 or 9 running pc's doing eth coin mining and

I have one letting me mine some compac usb miners along with a bitcoin node. that build is linux and is really good it has run nonstop since january no issues.

It is on a ups with my router uses an i5 2500t cpu and only burns 19 watts to run the btc node and to run the usb sticks ( powered usb not counted).

I have to get some time to learn more linux as I do not have a lot of work with it.

 

[vailr]

@ vailr he is putting in a sound card that up samples to 192 as his secondary business is building speakers.

What I was trying to say was: the build quality of boards that include Realtek ALC1150 audio is going to pretty much (more or less) guarantee overall build quality for the board's other components, whether the ALC1150 audio is actually used or whether it's disabled in bios and a PCIe sound card is used in it's place.

 

[philipma1957]

What I was trying to say was: the build quality of boards that include Realtek ALC1150 audio is going to pretty much (more or less) guarantee overall build quality for the board's other components, whether the ALC1150 audio is actually used or whether it's disabled in bios and a PCIe sound card is used in it's place.

Thanks for the clarification.

 

[poohbear]

I have never seen a person on these or other forums have that many motherboard RMAs at one time. And a bad CPU is a once-in-a-lifetime deal, if ever. Your friend might be better off with a pre-built system.

That's exactly what I was thinking. OP, are u sure ure not shorting these components or misinstalling something?