However, one of the trickiest things about Windows 11's TPM 2.0 requirement is that it can be hard to know if your machine even has a TPM 2.0 chip, since it's often disabled by default in newer PCs.īefore you worry too much, read our guide on how to check if your Windows PC has a TPM 2.0 chip - you might just need to enable it in your BIOS settings. Hopefully, this provides some relief for anyone fretting over having to buy a new PC (which is incredibly pricey right now, thanks to the ongoing chip shortage) in order to check out the next generation of Windows.

If you have at least that much, the Windows 11 installer will warn you that your PC is unsupported but should still let you complete the installation. So if you can in fact install Windows 11 on PCs that don't meet the minimum requirements and use it in an unsupported state, what's the real bare-minimum PC you'll need to run it on?īased on The Verge's reporting (opens in new tab), it sounds like right now the only parts of the Windows 11 minimum requirements that are actually required is that your PC have a 64-bit 1GHz CPU with 2 or more cores, 4 GB of RAM, 64 GB of storage space, and a TPM 1.2 chip.

Moving from Windows 10 to 11 won't require a TPM 2.0 chip - but without one your copy of Windows may be more vulnerable to attack.

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