Looking for a minimum TPM 2.0 upgrade

[Charlie240]

I've got a Core-7 2600K cpu sitting on an ASUS Mobo P8Z68-V.

I know the hardware requirements are incompatible with TPM 2.0,

but is there anyway to use the Mobo/socket 1155 with an older Intel CPU that supports TPM?

Or do I have to replace the Mobo, Memory and the CPU?

[AlHill]

Whatever processors are supported by your motherboard (socket) are subject to what processors that motherboard bios supports.

Doc (not an Intel employee or contractor)
[Fear and the desire for control are primary motivators for shadow dwellers. ]

[n_scott_pearson]

Support for a hardware TPM has absolutely nothing to do with the processor. It is a motherboard-provided capability. Now, 6 (like yours) and 7 Series motherboards only supported (if at all) TPM 1.2 - and many of these only supported a TPM as a hardware add-on (aside: your board doesn't have this option). AFAIK, support for TPM 2.0 was not introduced until 8 Series motherboards. Further, Intel's 'soft' TPM (implemented in the Management Engine), compliant with TPM 2.0, was not introduced until the 9 Series motherboards (i.e., with later (i.e., Haswell refresh) 4th gen processors).

I am not someone interested enough in keeping older systems alive to have closely followed the saga regarding (let alone experimented with) how to hack Windows 11 onto such systems, so I cannot say with any authority what the requirements for these older systems are - nor can I point you to the best resources for doing this hacking. Suffice it to say, you do not require a TPM nor do you need a (8th gen or later) processor that supports the additional security features Windows 11 (and Microsoft, in general) really wants. While on the one hand I can say that current Windows 11 installations on older system is as secure as are Windows 10 installations, I must point out that the missing security features do leave you vulnerable to attacks that leverage this fact - and indeed the black hats are working hard to identify such attacks as they know that the number of people running Windows 11 on older systems will be significant. It wouldn't surprise me if there are already successful attacks out there in the wild that just haven't been reported or caught as yet.

Hope this helps,

...S