Planning to buy my BF components for Christmas to Upgrade his PC, Looking for Recommendations!

[Bombastinator]

1 hour ago, 2plash6 said:

You can easily run Win11 on any unsupported processor with a few Registry tweaks.

You can run betas and stuff.  There’s a guy in Australia who loads win11 on non-compliant hardware by basically using a win10 installer to load up win11 atm. How long that will continue is unknown.  Microsoft has been specifically saying that systems that do that are going to have problems updating in the future. Them not following through on that would be Microsoft changing their mind. MacOS 10 was pretty easy to run on non apple hardware at first.  It got rapidly more difficult though.  I am not myself ready to call Microsoft an impotent paper tiger that will never be able to enforce their stuff.  It’s real possible that some criminal may do that for them since most of the difference between win10 and win11 are apparently security based, even if the tpm2 chip is not particularly good.  In any case, I rather doubt that someone who doesn’t even want to build his own machine is going to go digging around in the registry where it is famously easy to cause problems.  

Edited October 29, 2021 by Bombastinator

[jennay4399]

1 hour ago, Dedayog said:

Honestly, there are better presents for him than a PC upgrade.  

I mean, sure, but you also haven't even met him

[Bombastinator]

6 minutes ago, jennay4399 said:

I mean, sure, but you also haven't even met him

Some people are just really hard to buy gifts for.    It is possible that that motherboard is supported.  It would need to be checked.  Win10 support is supposed to end in something a bit less than 5 years. 

[Dedayog]

7 hours ago, jennay4399 said:

I mean, sure, but you also haven't even met him

I'm sure he has more interests than PC gaming.  Not to judge, but with a PC like he has, he's not a fanatic about it.

 

By your price point, I assume you're a bit older than a teenager.  So yeah, there are other things than struggling to find a decent meaningful upgrade for an aging system.

 

You CAN take the $700 and buy a CPU, motherboard, RAM and give him a head start on a new build, but that leaves him the GPU.  Or you can try to find a 3060 for the whole $700?

 

I am just saying that while things are so messy right now, maybe look into other presents.  A Trip?  Night out for a play or theatre experience?  Models?  Board games?  Car stuff?  Does he collect anything?  A gorgeous damascus sword for his wall?  There has to be more to him than PC.

[Bombastinator]

10 hours ago, Dedayog said:

I'm sure he has more interests than PC gaming.  Not to judge, but with a PC like he has, he's not a fanatic about it.

 

By your price point, I assume you're a bit older than a teenager.  So yeah, there are other things than struggling to find a decent meaningful upgrade for an aging system.

 

You CAN take the $700 and buy a CPU, motherboard, RAM and give him a head start on a new build, but that leaves him the GPU.  Or you can try to find a 3060 for the whole $700?

 

I am just saying that while things are so messy right now, maybe look into other presents.  A Trip?  Night out for a play or theatre experience?  Models?  Board games?  Car stuff?  Does he collect anything?  A gorgeous damascus sword for his wall?  There has to be more to him than PC.

But is there more to him that she wants to encourage?