Intel Core i3-7100 CPU not compatible for Windows 11

Question

I ran the Windows 11 Health Check and it determined my CPU didn't meet system requirements. It is an Intel Core i3-7100 CPU @ 3.9 GHz. It has two cores and I'm running a 64 bit system. When I look at the CPU requirements for Windows 11, it is the same. Below is the information from the website:

Processor 1 gigahertz (GHz) or faster with 2 or more cores on a compatible 64-bit processor or System on a Chip (SoC).

Are there other requirement which makes my CPU non-compatible?

Answer 1

See https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/design/minimum/supported/windows-11-supported-intel-processors

Your processor is not in the list of supported CPU.

Answer 2

One of the requirements for Windows 11 is that the processor supports Intel Quick Sync, which is a feature that uses a dedicated video encoding and decoding hardware core located on the processor instead of a general GPU. It enables hardware acceleration in video encoding and decoding, and was available starting with 8th Generation Core processors.

As mentioned elsewhere, many people have successfully loaded Win 11 on 7th Generation processors, and it seems to work fine. However, there is always the possibility that a future update will depend on Quick Sync and then it would be a problem. (Nvidia's parallel computing architecture is called Compute Unified Device Architecture (CUDA) while AMD processors use ATI Stream technology.)