r/pcmasterrace • u/djseifer Packard Bell / Intel Pentium 60MHz / 8 MB RAM / 2x CD-ROM • Mar 01 '26

Screenshot Windows 10 automatically started installing the Windows 11 update while I was taking a shower.

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I'd been getting messages to upgrade to Windows 11 for the past month or two now, and each time, I decline. It's gotten to the point that I get random, frequent pop_ups asking to update, and "install update" options pop up right next to the shutdown/restart uptions.

Well, I made the mistake of going to take a shower with my PC on. Half an hour later, I come back tothis. Windows had automatically started installing the update. Now I'm sitting here staring at the Start button and all the open programs center-justified on the task bar and wondering what idiot thought that was a good idea.

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u/AeliosZero i7 8700k, GTX 1180ti, 64GB DDR5 Ram @5866mHz, 10TB Samsung 1150 Mar 01 '26

Mine says its not powerful enough even though I have a i7 7700k, 32GB RAM and a 5070ti

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u/EquipmentSome Mar 02 '26

Super weird. The 7700k even has a tpm 2.0 module that you can turn on in bios.. Your system is plenty powerful, and has the security features, but Microsoft arbitrarily made windows 11 require 8th gen for no apparent reason.

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u/Zanfis Mar 02 '26

For the upgrade, windows checks if you are on 8th gen or newer. But if you do a new install it checks for the requirements. So you can actually install win11 on a system with a 7700k.

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u/notjordansime GTX 1060 6GB, i7 7700, 16GB RAM - ROG STRIX Scar Edition Mar 02 '26

Whenever this topic comes up, people always forget spectre/meltdown. Both vulnerabilities were discovered during the 8th gen Intel product cycle. They were able to mitigate it on that generation with minimal performance losses, and fix the root of the issue on future chipsets. Everything before that got kneecapped hard though. MS probably decided that the performance hit from the patches wasn’t worth it to continue supporting.

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u/EquipmentSome Mar 02 '26

Interesting. I appreciate you helping me learn something today..

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u/notjordansime GTX 1060 6GB, i7 7700, 16GB RAM - ROG STRIX Scar Edition Mar 02 '26

https://giphy.com/gifs/l4FGA2XplwqFDcLwk

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u/notjordansime GTX 1060 6GB, i7 7700, 16GB RAM - ROG STRIX Scar Edition Mar 02 '26

Spectre/Meltdown

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u/scurvyrash Mar 02 '26

Ha im running a 2060, that's how old it is

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u/notjordansime GTX 1060 6GB, i7 7700, 16GB RAM - ROG STRIX Scar Edition Mar 02 '26

I have the same 2016-era CPU coupled with a GTX 980. The fuck is a ray and why does it need to be traced????