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I’ve had this system for a long time due to what I paid for it and how well it has held up over time with the i7-3770 CPU. I’ve also looked into upgrading it to something newer but I could never justify it due to how well the system has held up. Sadly I think it met the final boss with Win11: TPM required/8th gen+ CPU required. Look I’m okay with taking the L on this XPS if need be but my issue now is if this will work I’m doing so at higher risk until I know it will work for sure, especially since this system is no longer supported by Dell. If I need to take an L on the Dell and upgrade it to 10 and stay there until 2025, so be it. I’ve held onto it so long since I paid $40 for it a few years ago from someone who wanted it gone - this will be hard to beat. A lot of newer prebuilts are sardine cans with nonstandard motherboard and power supply combinations - it’s a hard sell when this has held up so well. I will never get NVMe on 3rd gen but I’ve never been unhappy with it otherwise. Besides the fact I’m potentially screwed on 6th gen unnecessarily, what hope do I have for Windows beyond 10 with the XPS?
Hey Nick, This image may help. I’m not sure I’ve heard needing an 8th CPU.
I just built an AMD Ryzen 7-5600x. Hopefully, that will run W11, but all my other computers are i7 and one i5 so those will stay on W10 until they die. But regressing to W8 is definitely not advised. That OS is worse than Vista IMHO. Neither of which I ever used.
@jayeff I’m upgrading :-). Lost the HT but ehh on a 6C/6T CPU I don’t care. https://cpu.userbenchmark.com/Compare/In…
The easy way to install Windows 11 on unsupported CPUs - The Verge
