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    Question cpu benchmark

    I've been a career graphic designer since 1976. I found that over the counter computers were rarely cost-effective for what I needed, so I began building my workstations back in the late 80's Since then I discovered that AMD processors always did a better job with graphics than Intel, and were...
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    [SOLVED] MY ASUS Mobo has TPM 2.0, but the AMD CPU in the socket isn't supported by the new Win11 spec. I can't figure out why, it's a Ryzen7 1700.

    Yeah... I wonder if they're in cahoots with AMD to drive up cpu sales? MS always had good backwards compatibility... maybe I'll just stick with Windows 10.
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    [SOLVED] MY ASUS Mobo has TPM 2.0, but the AMD CPU in the socket isn't supported by the new Win11 spec. I can't figure out why, it's a Ryzen7 1700.

    My 64-bit CPU runs at 3.8 Gig and has sixteen threads on eight cores. Why does Microsoft insist I upgrade it? I can't really afford to do that right now...