We’re starting to learn more about which PCs are compatible with Windows 11
Here’s which Asus, Biostar and Gigabyte motherboards are compatible (thus far)
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A few motherboard manufacturers have provided details of which of their products are ready forWindows 11when it startsrolling out at the end of the year.
To be precise, Asus, Biostar and Gigabyte have announced a list of currently compatible motherboards, although before PCs running these components are good to go withWindows 11, they may need a touch of tweaking in the BIOS. More about that in a moment, but first let’s list the compatible boards, as highlighted byTom’s HardwareandWccftech.
Note that these aren’t necessarily the finalized lists of supported hardware for Windows 11, and other motherboard ranges will be added – this is just the state of play as it currently stands, so don’t despair yet if your particular board isn’t listed above.
BIOS trip
As mentioned, those motherboards are fine with Windows 11, but may still require a trip to the BIOS to flick a switch to enableTPM (Trusted Platform Module) support. As Tom’s Hardware spotted, Gigabyte observed: “Lots of GigabyteIntelandAMDmotherboards can pass the TPM 2.0 verification of the Windows 11 by simply enabling the TPM-related function in the BIOS. By this advanced BIOS setting, Gigabyte motherboards can pass the TPM 2.0 verification of Windows 11 to prevent TPM 2.0 support becoming an issue to users during their system upgrade.”
Further remember that while you’re in the BIOS doing that, you may also need to enable Secure Boot, which is also part of theminimum system requirements for Windows 11. Again, that’s a matter of flicking a switch, but the exact location of the switches depends on your motherboard and BIOS version, so while these are theoretically fairly easy things to do, it may be a confusing process for the less tech-savvy (particularly given that the BIOS isn’t a place where you want to make a misstep).
Predictably, given these requirements there has been a good deal of confusion around compatibility with Windows 11, a situation that hasn’t been helped by the fact thatMicrosoft’s PC Health Check app – the utility which lets you know whether your PC is compatible with the incoming OS –has in some cases been giving out errant information(with the tool’s findings lacking in details, too).
Remember that you also need acompatible CPU for Windows 11as well, plus there are otherminimum system requirements.
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Darren is a freelancer writing news and features for TechRadar (and occasionally T3) across a broad range of computing topics including CPUs, GPUs, various other hardware, VPNs, antivirus and more. He has written about tech for the best part of three decades, and writes books in his spare time (his debut novel - ‘I Know What You Did Last Supper’ - was published by Hachette UK in 2013).
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