Esoteric Tek: Windows 7 Idle versus Load Performance on FX and Ryzen

This posting is part of a series of posts meant to explore the following topics:

Testing designed to compare FX and Ryzen scaling with various workloads.
Testing designed to compare GTX 660 and GTX 1050 Ti scaling with various CPUs.
Testing designed to compare Windows 7 and Windows 10 under real-world idle conditions.
Testing designed to compare gaming/encoding performance while encoding (under CPU load) in the background.

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The following benchmarks were performed with the following hardware configurations:

Windows 7 Sp1 Updated, Windows 10 1703 Updated
GeForce GTX 660 and 1050Ti both at stock frequences.
Tests focus on real-world configurations and actual usage variations, not solely hardware component isolation. For that, check out gamersnexus.
1% lows, 0.1% lows and standard deviation calculations (for accurate error bars) not performed due to data analysis and time limitations.
For full disclaimers, detailed configuration information, and results data please see the raw results Google doc. Tabs exist.
Regarding MetroLL and Ryzen’s SMT.