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Windows 11 has an all-new user interface including a new taskbar, new centered icons, window transparency, rounded corners, and a refreshed Microsoft Store.

Will this "unsupported" PC run Win11 smoothly?

I have to manage a fleet of PCs for others. One of them will not officially run W11 as it has a Ryzen 5 2400G APU, when the minimum CPU is a Ryzen 5 2600. I'm hesitant to upgrade it to 11 with the unsupported CPU, but everything else "passes" the compatibility test; even TPM 2.0 is there. I knew this would be an issue years ago, but the need for a replacement was deferred for years and my warning was ignored for years.

The rest of the unit is as follows: 1TB WD Black (pulled from the old PC, so this is the second run—54k hours), 250GB SATA SSD, 16GB RAM, Radeon RX—the PC literally makes it short of the CPU :-(. I may be able to put a used Ryzen 5 2600 in so I can tell Microsoft where to shove it, but I don't want to chance it being a dud, so that's something I would probably try if I got it, but not in production.

Given how close it is, if I have to do the unsupported upgrade, are the odds of an issue something that warrants grave concern high? Either way is a wipe and reload by nature due to how I bypass it. If it were something I was still running, I would have bypassed it given how close it is and assumed the risk, but there's a little more caution needed for others. I HAVE seen it go south on bad chips like the A10-4755M when I tested my procedure on grossly unsupported hardware. It was unusable, but the PC was borderline unusable on Win8 and Win10, so that was what I expected.

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Hi @nick ,

Windows 11, like previous versions, will run on pretty much anything—it’s just more resource intensive, so older or unsupported hardware might take a performance hit. It’ll generally work just fine even on systems without TPM or with unsupported CPUs like the Ryzen 5 2400G.

Microsoft didn’t validate first-gen Ryzen chips for Windows 11 mainly because those CPUs don’t include native TPM 2.0 support. While many motherboards do include firmware-based TPM 2.0—as in your case—that technically satisfies the Windows 11 requirement, Microsoft focused validation on newer CPUs (Zen+ and beyond) that offer TPM 2.0 natively as part of the platform.

Unless this machine is mission-critical and requires official support, bypassing the CPU check should be fine, and Windows 11 will likely run without issue.

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I’ll have to discuss it as a potential stop gap but to be frank I don’t know if I want to do it forever. Maybe as an emergency workaround for now at most.

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