Will a motherboard #656939-001 fit an 8300 SFF

[Lightman2]

will a motherboard #656939-001 fit an 8300 SFF and use a processor that will run windows 11

[SDH · Accepted solution]

If you look up that motherboard it is shaped differently from what you see for an eBay search of "8300 SFF motherboard".

Go to eBay and take a look at the results of those two searches.

USDT is different from SFF.  SFF is a different shape of box than MT.

The answer right now is that it is too soon to tell.  MS is getting big blowback from consumers for seeming to limit the W11 install to such a small set of PCs.  Shooting self in foot it seems.  HP has lots of workstations that have TPM 1.2 that likely can be upgraded to TPM 2.0.  I trust HP to not shoot themselves in the foot.  We will see.  The fact is that there are many HP laptops and workstations that may have shipped with 1.2 and HP later released 2.0 firmware updaters.  I have great hope for the ZX20 generation.  Maybe for the ZX00 generation too.  Not sure about your hardware, but look into what you might have as a TPM chipset and if it is 1.2 there is hope.

[DGroves]

the SFF and microtower 8300's use the same motherboard and it looks like normal custom semi AXT board

the USDT board however is much more closely related to a laptop motherboard and shares absolutely no parts or firmware with the sff/mt motherboard

[Lightman2]

Thanks for the reply. I knew almost as soon as I hit the submit button that the question was a waste of time. My apologies. The second part of the reply was much more important. I know I have a 1.2 chip. I do not know if it is upgradable. Microsoft seems to have two issues to solve (TPM and 8th generation processors) before W11 goes the way of previous alternate revisions. I honestly get the impression that W11 is primarily for gamers.

In any case thanks for the reply an I will wait to see if MS gets their figurative head into the sunlight.

Have a super day