Intel Core 2 Quad line up with a basic SSD & cheap 8GB RAM is still good enough hardware for Office Apps / Internet Browsing / printing / accounting / billing software and stuff like that. First world people wont understand but these kind of cheap hardware is actually used by huge number of small businesses & offices around countries like India, China, South East Asia, parts of other African & south American population. Removing support from modern OS forces these older hardware users to actually use older, unsupported OS like Windows 7. Now who cares if they get hacked or virus. It is their headache to deal with. Right? Think again, since bad actors do things for their "profit" and modern malware is made with lot of effort to "earn something" out of that effort. These smaller 3rd world individuals can only give one thing in return, that is processing power for a bad actors world wide bot net. Not thinking about them will come back to hit larger target with DDOS / BotNet & so on. People can't realize or grasp this aspect since number of really old PCs are actually huge & cheap internet has ensured that ever increasing number of them are getting connected to the same world wide network as we with our modern shiny new software. Many will argue, those people must use Linux and so on. But they are not under your or my control and these people are free to use whatever suites their needs. Heck, we as security concern folks could not force our "banks" to ditch Windows XP out of their ATMs, so who are we to decide about those individuals on Windows 7. So this kind of planned or forced obsolescence has some real drawbacks for everyone, including those who thinks "we are not effected" Thanks.
IMHO the issue is that while the CPU might work - there may not be any decent driver support (inbox or compatible old version) for some devices like Video, Sound, etc. Intel is now dropping suppport for old gens quite quickly. For desktops - that can be worked around with different devices - but for laptops? Death sentence. Refreshing a Core 6th gen laptop was rough, a Core 4th gen laptop had to go back to Win 10 (or Ubuntu)... Being a Lenovo, it required a BIOS white-list unlock mod to replace a 7260 wifi that is even worse now with old driver and recent Win 10 builds. IMHO I would not bother with anything older on Windows unless you enjoy pain...
A basic question is AMD's Ftpm the same as Windows' TPM? If I disable TPM in Bios, will I automatically disable FTPM?
fTPM is simply a TPM 2.0 implementation in the Ryzen CPU itself. It will be used by Windows in the same way any discrete TPM 2.0 would. If and how you can disable it depends entirely on the UEFI implementation. Some allow to disable both discrete and fTPM, some only allow to switch but not disable, and some have no such setting at all.
Intel i3 from 2011 are cheap price , if you need to use very very old computer with cpu like core2duo use windows 10 iot ltsc 2021 to have update up to 2032 ( and after 2032 .. buy more recent computer The last core2duo are from 2011 .. 13years old you can buy old computer from 2010/2011 era for low price with intel i7 or i5
Are these set of instructions OK for Win 11 LTSC? fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush mmx fxsr sse sse2 ht syscall nx mmxext fxsr_opt pdpe1gb rdtscp lm constant_tsc rep_good nonstop_tsc extd_apicid aperfmperf pni monitor ssse3 cx16 popcnt lahf_lm cmp_legacy svm extapic cr8_legacy abm sse4a misalignsse 3dnowprefetch ibs skinit wdt arat hw_pstate npt lbrv svm_lock nrip_save pausefilter vmmcall Or the setup will not work? I think to use WinNTSetup 5.3.5.2, should I do any special procedure?
Just posting this as a possibility, but it seems as of 26120.1930 that Skip_TPM_Check_on_Dynamic_Update no longer works. WU gets to the reboot phase but soon returns 0xc1900101. Repeating doesn't help. I've seen comments over on deskmodder saying that as of the above build you now need to use an ISO to update (an unsupported system, of course), which is what I did since I was out of ideas. I hope this isn't the end of the line for the WU method and that this is just a one-build thing.