I can confirm this board does not require any drivers to be loaded with Windows 7 as I am running that combination. Whilst I had to load drivers under XP (I'm triple booting the two versions of Windows plus SuSE Linux 11.1 at the moment) so that it would recognise the processor and chipset correctly, Windows 7 picked everything up automatically without needing any additional drivers loaded. I can only assume Microsoft have included support for all the chipsets and processors available to them during development, including the AMD 790 chipset and DDR3 Phenom II processors.