Forum Discussion
Jeronimo2440
Oct 04, 2021Iron Contributor
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...
SimonRowell
Oct 21, 2021Copper Contributor
There is an https://www.tomsguide.com/news/windows-11s-system-requirements-can-be-bypassed-with-this-official-microsoft-workaround to make the system ignore the processor version check during upgrade installations. This means that the only question we (the i7-7700k community) should be worrying about is whether ongoing windows updates (for security and so forth) are going to be blocked in some fashion. Anyone know?
That way, we could side-step all this self-justifying nonsense from MS and get on with life (we all know that W11 works perfectly fine with our i7-7700Ks).
Simon
nbelley
Oct 21, 2021Brass Contributor
No this only works for the dev channel. It won't work for the release version and updates will be blocked, no patches etc.