Is There a Windows 7 and Intel i7-7700 Workaround?

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keving98

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I'm setting up (6) new Dell Precision T3620 workstations with Windows 10 Pro for a CAD shop. What I was hoping to do was take the SSDs from their current Windows 7 workstations and use them in a dual boot with the Precisions to give them the option to boot into Windows 7 temporarily if needed. Has anyone had any luck getting Windows 7 working with i7-7700s? Installing Windows 7 from scratch is not an option.

As it stands, I've been unable to install the "PCI Simple Communications Controller" (I assume it's the Intel MEI); "Universal Serial Bus (USB) Controller" (Intel USB 3.0 Extensible); "Video Controller" (Intel HD?).

They're using Nvidia Quadro cards.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.
 
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Ironsounds

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Hello... Typically you would directly contact intel engineering for something like this... they probably have one already as development starts years before a product is launched... questionable whether they would release it to you... they would have to hold you to some kind of "secret agreement" "some Fee" or kill you afterwards B D ... that would make a lot of people happy to have it.

Create/network a single OLDER CPU machine and place all the drives in it?
 
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You can't anyways because the Dells have a OEM version of windows 7 that looks for the board's id number.

It's not installing because the PCI bus drivers are wrong. So all of the other items go offline because of that. It's called the PCI standard bus to cpu bridge.
There is also a SM bus too that is likely not loading.

The best thing to do is use the existing board and system. You can buy ex-server cpus that are faster. Most boards will need a bios upgrade.

http://www1.ca.dell.com/ca/en/nbbg/workstations/workstation-precision-t3500/pd.aspx?refid=workstation-precision-t3500&cs=canbbg&s=nbbg

My guess is that it's this one, or the HP-Compaq version.
Socket 1366 has many good cpu upgrades that you can do. 1156 is a bit more limited. If you have the sandybridge socket a i7-2600 is still a decent cpu.
Most of the work gets done on the video card via cuda so it will still work.
 
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keving98

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"You can't anyways because the Dells have a OEM version of windows 7 that looks for the board's id number." I can't what?

Their existing workstations are i5-2500K, Gigabyte H67M-D2-B3, home-builds.

The workstations in the Dell link have Xeon W3503 (Dual Core Intel Xeon W3503 (2.40GHz, 4M L3, 4.8GT/s)) processors and DDR3 1333.

Are you saying the best option is to put a faster CPU in the Gigabyte board?

By including the Dell link are you trying to guess what they're using now or are you saying the Dell T3500s are viable alternatives to the i7-7700?

Clock speed, along with a strong video card, are king in Solidworks 2016.
 
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