upgrade Z230 SFF processor and or motherboard

[RpetrieNH]

I would like to upgrade my Z230 SFF processor and or motherboard to run windows 11.  Do I have to purchase a whole new motherboard or can I just put in a new 12 core processor?

[Paul_Tikkanen]

Hi:

There aren't any W11-supported processors or motherboards that would fit in your PC.

If you are interested in installing W11 on your PC as is, you can read this discussion for how I upgraded several HP and Dell notebook and desktop PC's that did not meet the W11 hardware requirements to W11 22H2/22H3.

You have to use the version of the Rufus utility that I zipped up and attached in the discussion (v3.18).

Re: Issues upgrading to windows 11 - HP Support Community - 8517912

If the in-place upgrade fails, you should be able to clean install W11 using the bootable W11 installation flash drive you made with Rufus.

[DGroves]

you may also want to consider the z240 which while not win 11 compatible unless using a modded installer due to cpu does support boot from nvme and faster cpu's

even better is a lenovo p520 with a w-2135 cpu (not the p520c) which is win 11 compatible and runs the latest cinebench and is equal to a AMD 5600X cpu check ebay for pricing a system with cpu but no ram/gpu/HD is about 170.00

12 core count systems will usually be dual cpu systems like the z820/840 however my z820 with two of the fastest e5-2699 cpu's (24 cores) is not that much faster than a 6 core AMD 5600x in the older cinebench test, i cant run the newest cinebench test on the z820 as the cpu's lack some newer instructions cinebench requires