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Jeronimo2440
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Oct 04, 2021

The i7-7700K meet the minimun requierments to run Win11. But its not suported, Why?

Hi, I have an i7-7700K. This CPU have TPM 2.0, It's compatible with Secure Boot, it have 4 core up to 4.2 GHz. It also is 64bit.  I don't know why this CPU is not supported by Microsoft to install W...
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-2FR3-
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It would be interesting to venture into the differences between the 7th and 8th generation of cpu to determine the decision of MS about security. TPM ready also.
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Jeronimo2440
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Oct 06, 2021
Appears to have the same level of security. The main requirement was Secure Boot and TPM 2.0 and it have them both. And I chat with Microsoft for 2 hours and they failed trying to justifying it.
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    -2FR3-
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    Oct 06, 2021

    Exact !
    We need to look in the internal security of the CPU obviously. Is not my spéciality ( I'm a little web French develloper) but we can google search. I'm with you, I don't understand...

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