Question install Server 2019 on a non-Xeon Intel system

[wttech001]

Has anyone successfully installed Server 2019 on a non-Xeon Intel system - preferably ASUS motherboard and I9? Must be Intel not AMD. If so what if any problems were encountered and how were they gotten around? In particular was there an issue with drivers, firmware, chipset?

 

[COLGeek]

In general, the hardware requirements are not overly burdensome. These devices should work just fine, even if you just use "generic" Windows provided drivers.

What is the intended use-case for this server?

 

[USAFRet]

Has anyone successfully installed Server 2019 on a non-Xeon Intel system - preferably ASUS motherboard and I9? Must be Intel not AMD. If so what if any problems were encountered and how were they gotten around? In particular was there an issue with drivers, firmware, chipset?

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/get-started/hardware-requirements
The requirements for Server2019 nowhere state a XEON is needed.

Indeed, they offer a 180 day VHD for trial purposes. Which could live in any hardware system.
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/evalcenter/evaluate-windows-server-2019

What will this be used for?

 

[wttech001]

Thank you all for quick responses, but has any one have installed Server 2019 on an Intel non-Xeon I9 system. We have read all the theory but we would like to know if anybody has ever done it. As far as what we are trying to do is that we are trying to get away from using Xeons for Server 2019 installs of any kind - file server, application server

 

[USAFRet]

Thank you all for quick responses, but has any one have installed Server 2019 on an Intel non-Xeon I9 system. We have read all the theory but we would like to know if anybody has ever done it. As far as what we are trying to do is that we are trying to get away from using Xeons for Server 2019 installs of any kind - file server, application server

What leads you to believe it would be an issue?
The posted hardware requirements do not show any issue.

MS publishes free trial installs, specifically for testing like this.

Try it.
It costs you nothing but a bit of time.

 

[thestryker]

Xeons have never been a requirement for running Windows Server so long as you meet whatever the minimum requirements are. I ran Server 2022 on my i7-12700K without any issues, but wouldn't recommend it unless you have a platform supporting ECC.