Look to replace my mother board

[Buckshot1971]

I currently have a Hewlett-Packard 2B3A (SOCKET 0) mother board installed in my computer, and I am wanting to replace it with something newer because the chip set in it is not win 11 compatible and it does not have any M.2 slots. Looking for suggestions.

[NonSequitur777]

@Buckshot1971,

Welcome to our HP community forum!

This is the first time I have come across an actual HP ENVY Phoenix Desktop - 850-065se CTO (M0K57AV) Owner, and that is pretty exciting to me!  Reason being, I like to upgrade legacy HP desktops, and it so happened that as I completed my previous HP Z440 Workstation upgrade project, I was looking for a desktop fitted with a Viking Pegatron motherboard (SSID: 2B3A) -which you got.

According to the specs, your desktop is supposed to be fitted with an i7-5960X (8-Cores, 16-Threads, 3.00 GHz up to 3.50 GHz, 140-watt TDP) which is an LGA 2011 socket processor:

This is an outstanding processor, comparable with an i7-8700 -not too shabby at all, I should say!

What I am trying to say is, why replacing this beautiful platform with something else?

Just like I did with my previous HP Z440 Workstation upgrade project for example -incidentally powered by an i7-6900K, which is also not W11 eligible according to Microsoft, one can easily and safely bypass these rather arbitrary CPU restrictions, as you can see in the HP Z440 Workstation upgrade link I provided earlier.

Our Senior Expert @Paul_Tikkanen has provided an easy-to-follow step by step procedure to upgrade from Windows 10 to Windows 11.  I am very confident indeed that this will work out well for you too!

According to the Viking motherboard specs, you do have one M.2 NVMe SSD slot:

And, in addition, you could use one of your two PCIe x16 slots to plug in a PCIe x16 to M.2 NVMe SSD adapter to enjoy a second M.2 NVMe SSD, such as something like this:

Hope this was helpful.

Kind Regards,

NonSequitur777

[Buckshot1971]

Thank you for the response, you have given me a direction to go. so just one bit of info about my chip. it an Intel Core i7 5820K @ 3.30GHz. not the i7-5960x.  Will this make a difference as to what you have suggested?

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[NonSequitur777]

@Buckshot1971,

No, that doesn't make any difference.  The i7-5820K (6-Cores, 12-Threads, 3.30 GHz up to 3.60 GHz, TDP: 140-watt) is also an LGA 2011 processor, a sibling so to speak of the i7-5960X:

Link: CPU-Upgrade: Intel Core i7-5820K CPU.

An i7-5820K is comparable with an i7-7700K, meaning, it is also a very capable processor.

Kind Regards,

NonSequitur777