I have three Desktop PC's with Core 2 Duo's at the moment and one Gigabyte motherboard with a Core 2 Quad. I just recycled three SFF Dell Optiplex's with Core 2 Quads this Summer as they were quite dirty and I didn't feel like sorting them out. I offer the remaining up for free if one were to...
I bet an NVME adapter would work fine. I'd like to try that out, thanks for the suggestion. If I see one for a good deal I'll give it a go just for fun.
Sneaky ASUS. I should have known when I didn't see an official Windows logo! Kidding aside, I do like the motherboard for what it is.
To stick with the theme of this thread, it's safe to say that Win 11 will run on this motherboard with an i5-6500 CPU unofficially. 17 of these will be set...
I received some Ciara Tech SFF PC's last week and they have ASUS Q170M-C motherboards installed with i5-6500 CPU's and 8GB DDR4 RAM. Pretty cool, much more customizable then the Dell, HP, Lenovo, etc options. I noticed on the ASUS motherboard website that it is considered "Windows 11 Ready."...
I would have to think that the driver update is lumped in with other devices that are on the official "supported list." Either way, encouraging to see.
Who knows, maybe Lenovo is acknowledging that users are going to find a way to use Windows 11 on legacy devices one way or the other ;) I like...
I thought I would chime in with my own tests installing Win 11 with a bootable USB drive using Rufus, which enables the user to easily bypass TPM requirements. These are all with Win 10 license keys previously activated.
- Lenovo ThinkPad T540p (i7-4800MQ): I have been running Windows 11...