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Windows 11 hardware requirements made a mockery of by an Intel Pentium 4 processor
As the screenshots below show, Microsoft considers the Intel Pentium 4 661 a supported processor. Intel released the Pentium 4 661 in early 2006, with a solitary core to its name. Apparently, Microsoft forgot to add any Intel Family 15 (Netburst) SKUs in its unsupported processors list for Windows 11.
Hence, the PC Health Check tool sees that the Pentium 4 661 has a 3.6 GHz boost clock, which satisfies one of Windows 11's requirements. Curiously, the tool states that the Pentium 4 661 has two or more cores, even though it lists it as having one.
@Carlos_SM1995 has even got Windows 11 (Build 22000.258) running on a Pentium 4 661. Supposedly, Windows Update still works too, highlighting the ridiculousness of Microsoft's overtures regarding Windows 11 compatibility.
Windows 11 final (Build 22000.258) running on Intel Pentium 4 (11m4s video)
(Score: 2) by Gaaark on Tuesday October 19 2021, @06:35PM (3 children)
Holy shite: it won't run on THAT?
Why do people give MS their money?
Seriously. Dump dat shit. Just refuse. Get a new job or whatever.
Just. Refuse.
--- Please remind me if I haven't been civil to you: I'm channeling MDC. ---Gaaark 2.0 ---
(Score: 4, Interesting) by Marand on Wednesday October 20 2021, @12:52AM (2 children)
Probably TPM- or SecureBoot-related. Maybe doesn't have SB enabled or the motherboard needs a hardware TPM.
Mine's even funnier:
* Ryzen 7 1700 (8c/16t) OC'd to all-core 3.7ghz
* 64GB (4x 16GB sticks) RAM
* Nvidia GTX 1070 Ti (8GB)
* Nvidia GTX 1060 (6GB)
* 1TB nvme + 512GB SSD + multiple TB of traditional storage.
* I also have the necessary TPM support because my motherboard happens to support it, though I never knew/cared.
Should be more than enough to run Windows 11, right? Nope, because none of that matters; Microsoft arbitrarily decided that the first-gen Ryzen chips aren't supported, regardless of hardware capability. I can (and do) run Windows 10 in a VM and even there, with only a fraction of the my system's full resources, Windows has higher specs than many PCs in use: I give it 6c/12t, 24GB of RAM, and pass through the GTX 1070 Ti. Yet I still couldn't install Windows 11 if I wanted because I failed to meet some arbitrary cut-off point.
I don't run Windows on bare metal and don't intend to start doing so, so I don't actually care that it "fails", but I think it's hilarious that I'd have to throw all this hardware out if I wanted to install Windows 11.
(Score: 3, Touché) by Reziac on Wednesday October 20 2021, @02:54AM
It's a little bizarre considering it's not that different from Win10, which runs perfectly well on my 13 year old AMD that was never much to start with. So, yeah, it ain't the CPU.
And there is no Alkibiades to come back and save us from ourselves.
(Score: 2) by Freeman on Wednesday October 20 2021, @01:32PM
My wife's computer:
MSI B350 TOMAHAWK AM4
AMD Ryzen 7 1st Gen - RYZEN 7 1700 Summit Ridge (Zen) 8-Core 3.0 GHz
Mushkin Enhanced Reactor 2.5" 1TB SATA III MLC
G.SKILL Ripjaws V Series 32GB (2 x 16GB) 288-Pin DDR4 SDRAM DDR4 2400
Some version of a Radeon RX 480 4GB/8GB.
Win 10 Pro 64-bit
Supposedly, it would support the Ryzen 5 3600, which is supported by Win11. Not sure, if the MB would be supported or not, it probably would just squeak in, if I upgrade my computer to a 5000 and drop my 3600 CPU into this thing. Still, I'm much more likely to burn the Microsoft bridge, because they're not getting better.
Joshua 1:9 "Be strong and of a good courage; be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed: for the Lord thy God is with thee"