[SOLVED] Will a GIGABYTE TPM 2.0 chip work with my Asus motherboard?

[ivankhuri]

Hello,
In preparation for Windows 11 I'm going to purchase a TPM 2.0 chip for my motherboard (Asus H97M-PLUS)
However, due to the chip shortage and scalpers, I only found this one in stock:

and my motherboard's TPM pin information is:

The question is, if I go ahead and buy this will it work with my motherboard no problem?

 

[Colif]

Unless Microsoft change their mind about CPU's you need to use win 11, you may find getting a TPM module is a waste of money. Right now anything below a 8300 can't use Win 11 - https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/wi...pported/windows-11-supported-intel-processors

As for question, I suspect you need an Asus one. There are 2 different Asus ones I know of, so helps to know which you need too.

 

[drea.drechsler]

Hello,
In preparation for Windows 11 I'm going to purchase a TPM 2.0 chip for my motherboard (Asus H97M-PLUS)
However, due to the chip shortage and scalpers, I only found this one in stock:

and my motherboard's TPM pin information is:

The question is, if I go ahead and buy this will it work with my motherboard no problem?

Have you checked to see if your CPU supports a firmware TPM, or fTPM? You'd see it as a BIOS setting. Many CPU's made since 2016-2017 include one. If it's up to TPM rev level 2.0 Windows 11 will be perfectly compatible with it and it works just as well as a separate TPM module.

If it doesn't have fTPM then I agree to wait until Win11 is released. Not so much in hopes it will drop the requirement for a TPM capability, as I hope they don't, but because stock of TPM modules are doubtless going to increase and you'll be able to get the right one without being scalped mercilessly or taking a chance of damaging your motherboard and CPU with an incompatible module.