[rescue] off-topic but advice needed for the involuntary hardware upgrade for Win 11? -what I did.

[john ferguson]

OK Guys,

Here's what I did - days shopping Ebay for HP Z2 G4's and Z2 G5's.  It 
was a good suggestion because there were lots of them, I liked my Elite 
8300 Tower which may have been an earlier incarnation of the Z2 and they 
seem to have plenty of capacity for excess drives etc.

At first I thought it would be good to get a Z2 G5 (newer don't you 
know) but I quickly discovered that the more economical offerings with 
Intel I-core processors only had 350 Watt poer supplies.  I'm running a 
Nvidia GTX 1070 which would have been pushing it. but eventually I found 
a Z2-g4, 650 watt PSU, Win11Pro, with 1TB M.2, 32 gigs RAM, and an I9 
9900 CPU which ought to work for me. It was not cheap, $612 shipping 
included. but should hold me for a while.

It should be here tomorrow afternoon.

Thanks for the excellent advice and commentary. I don't think I even 
knew that the HP Z2 line existed.

For some reason, I thought that if MS persisted with their hardware 
requirements to run W11, and getting close to 2026 might make old W11 
Compatible machines a lot pricier.  ??

John Ferguson

St Petersburg, the warm one.