I thought I bricked my PC after upgrading the CPU to get to Windows 11

I need to tell the whole story, otherwise it won’t make sense. The problem was that I have a powerful, but old 10 core Xeon on a Pro ASUS motherboard which has everything on it. When I got a major project from my new customer, I found myself in a problem because I also had 240 tabs in Edge which I could not close, and this PC was running out of CPU and Memory (even with…