• randon31415@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Does win 11 still require physical hardware to run? Why I have to sacrifice one of my motherboard slots for a worthless authentication chip that might stop working and brick my computer - ya I’ll stay with 10.

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        1 year ago

        It’s built into my CPU but for some reason MS doesn’t trust the Intel Core i7 chips.

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        1 year ago

        Strange, I thought it was a standard header. Why I bought 10 instead of 11 when building my computer.

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          1 year ago

          It’s either the LPC header or it’s soldered onto the board directly. LPC header doesn’t have any other *official uses so it’s not sacrificing functionality. Though I can understand why somebody wouldn’t want to have a TPM module on their board. It’s pretty easy to bypass that requirement in Windows (over and over) though.

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      You’re not sacrificing a slot. TPM chips are typically either soldered onto the motherboard, built into the chipset, or (in the few instances that they are optional) go in a special port just fir them.

      There are plenty of reasons not to move to W11 without making up new ones.

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      Technically it’s an artificial requirement, it’ll run just fine without secure boot and TPM, you’ll just need to do some work around to install it that way.