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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 Freeman on Wednesday October 20 2021, @01:47PM
That whole setup cost me about $1,250 with everything, PSU (Platinum 750 Watt 10yr warranty), Case, Fans, etc. (Ryzen 5 3rd gen setup, 6-core CPU)
While my wife's setup cost me about $1,670 with everything. (Ryzen 7 1st gen setup, 8-core CPU)
There was no real difference between the Ryzen 7 and the Ryzen 5 performance wise. They both ran all my VR experience stuff and things like Space Engineers just fine. The Ryzen 5 probably stays a bit cooler overall and doesn't use as much of the CPU, though. For a while I was running a VR game for kiddo to play (VR Zoo is the favorite) and a game for me to play at the same time. I think I still can, but I have to launch the desktop game first, otherwise it wants to launch the desktop game in VR.
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"