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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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nbelley
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Oct 23, 2021
Sixpiece I'm not sure you understand how CPUs work. Intel i7 and i8 have probably 99.9999% same instructions. It's not because the cpu changes generation that it changes how it operates with its registers. More to the point, they support SOME i7, it makes no sense to not support all of them, your argument is completely wrong.
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prepstarr
Copper Contributor
Oct 23, 2021

nbelley there is no intel i8 , if you are such an expert and believe they are so similar the instructions then just go right ahead and simply bypass the restriction but I told you that they are not and you will have stability issues, functional working issues and it could even go as far as actually killing your cpu in the end.

 

You could probably use reverse engineering, recompile the compiler, and do some powershell scripting to account for the differences but you will need to do this for every update as it goes along as well as thorough testing so that part could mean instability in the tests as well..

 

 

https://www.hackers-arise.com/post/2017/07/04/reverse-engineering-malware-part-4-windows-internals

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    prepstarr
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    Oct 23, 2021
    https://ark.intel.com/content/www/us/en/ark/products/97128/intel-core-i77700-processor-8m-cache-up-to-4-20-ghz.html

    I would request the technical documentation from Intel so that you are able to ensure it is working the way that you want it to and since you claim it is so easy to do, just do it yourself.

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