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Jeronimo2440
Iron Contributor
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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BrianFatz
Copper Contributor
Nov 10, 2022
Understand. My I7-7700 is more robust than my wife's I5 laptop, which is supported. I purchased the I7 with the idea that it will last longer than three years for my needs. I'm keeping all four of my systems on W10 because past disparate versions of Windows did not play well together on the network. Eventually, I will do a work around W11 upgrade on the I7, if I still own it.
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UQAM-informatique
Copper Contributor
Nov 10, 2022
I mean it’s possible that there are no more bugs but after 5 years you could also switch to freeBSD, rhel , or gentoo Linux to name a few good options or many other options ….