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 64 GB of 2666 MHz DDR4 RAM).
I don’t have a reason to upgrade because this has worked fine for the most part and is a very reliable system with NVMe RAID 10 and everything.
After struggling for a few days, I decided to move all my non-technical work to another side PC on my LAN:
- Edge
- Outlook
- Office
- OneDrive
- Box for Windows
I had an old 1st gen Ryzen CPU lying around. I got the cheapest Gigabyte motherboard I could find and got Windows 10 on it, because 11 was not supported by this CPU.
Before I did this, I did try to get 4 16GB chips of DDR4 RAM and use my workstation as-is, but found…
