Question Wanting to Update Older Gaming PC with Windows 11

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This is my first post, and I'm sure this probably isn't the correct place to post this. But I wasn't sure where else to start. Didn't see the right area in Hardware.

Anyway, I have an older gaming PC which was used in our dental office for video scanning of teeth and converting them to STL. So the hardware in the computer is still fairly solid. However, pretty sure when I upgraded the computer inside of the scanner the HDD stayed with the new computer, so all I have now is a still very usable computer with a good graphics card, etc.

The reason I am posting in the Windows 11 forum is that I want to add a HDD to this computer with Windows 11, but I don't even know where to start. I have several newer internal HDD I can use, but didn't know any other forum to post to. Tom's Hardware has been a great resource for me for years, but this is one task I've never tried to tackle. I know if I just knew what to do I can make this older computer work for several more years.

All components are in place except for HDD with Windows. So if anyone can point me in the right direction, either on this forum or Youtube etc, I would greatly appreciate it.

Thank you in advance.
 
Motherboard? CPU? For older PC’s, I strongly recommend you try Pop!_OS, its a distro of linux, its light and you never have to use the command line if you don’t want to.
 
Don't use a HDD for OS at this point. It will cripple your system performance on latency waiting for data.

As above W11 is only officially supported for 8th gen and newer Intel and certain 2000 series Ryzen and newer.

Buy an SSD. Install it to the PC. Download the official OS from Microsoft onto a USB installer and use that to install to the PC.
 
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punkncat said:
Don't use a HDD for OS at this point. It will cripple your system performance on latency waiting for data.

As above W11 is only officially supported for 8th gen and newer Intel and certain 2000 series Ryzen and newer.
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That's why I suggested using Linux, it can run on almost any hardware, and smoothly.
 
whatdoitypehere9937982739 said:
That's why I suggested using Linux, it can run on almost any hardware, and smoothly.
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Yes, but the key to this is the mention that the user wants to game on the PC. This requires a bit of footwork with Wine (etc.) and isn't particularly simple to the uninitiated. Since the questions was posited to ask of putting W11 on unsupported hardware with a HDD it wouldn't be risking much to say the OP probably can't do that.
 
It's an unsupported platform, so even if you do get Windows 11 installed, Microsoft could make changes to Windows 11 in the future that your hardware cannot run. Then you'll be dead in the water with nowhere to go.
 

I think johnwyork needs to come back to the conversation and at least post what's under the hood.​

My thinking is came from a dentist office so most likely bare bone low end very old more or less terminal to server computer.
But it also could be a sleeper computer that has balls but just missed Microsofts cutoff list for Windows 11. Having a parts list would really help. hint hint johnwyork
 
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