Indeed, and for a brand new budget build, I'd recommend the Pentium G4560 over any first-gen i7. Kaby Lake clocks higher, has significantly better IPC, and supports newer instruction sets...all on a much more modern and less expensive platform (good LGA-1366 boards are getting rare and expensive). Even with two cores vs. four, it's a pretty easy choice.
I was simply pointing out that the first gen i7 has really held in there. They were solid when they launched and most people still using one will struggle to find a compelling upgrade path for general use.
Kaby Lake CPUs work fine in Windows 7 and even much older OSes. Pair a G4560 with a 100 series motherboard and don't plan on using the IGP, it will work just like a Skylake, because that's essentially what it is.
Intel isn't making 200 series, or Kaby Lake IGP/SoC drivers for older versions of Windows, and Microsoft isn't including any fallback, but they cannot prevent the CPU cores themselves from working normally, because they have no features (other than a tweaked turbo) that Skylake lacks.
And yes, I've tried it.
Last edited: