• Evilcoleslaw@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago
    • SSE 4.2
    • POPCNT instruction specifically
    • 16GB of RAM.

    The first two are available on CPUs starting from AMD K10 (Phenom) and Intel’s Penryn and Nehalem architectures (Core 2 and original Core i5/i7).

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      6 months ago

      Seriously? The old core i7 870 (not a typo) I have in my closet meets the requirements? Adding the watermark for CPUs older than that just seems mean-spirited.

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        6 months ago

        I think there are also some ARM SoCs (now that Windows on ARM is a thing) that don’t meet the requirements, and there are too many systems out there with only 8GB of RAM.