I expect most people will have heard of Microsoft requiring TPM to be part of the suite of security upgrades for getting Windows 11 with their approval. I have looked at 2 pc's running W10 on AM3+ motherboards and can find no mention of TPM, but I also have a laptop with DDR4 and a 6th generation i3 which most likely can have TPM firmware enabled. Would it be a good idea to add firmware TPM to a W10 pc?
To get all the System Requirements fulfilled for Win11 it probably would be a good idea. I got a new Notebook yesterday from Dell that during updates and a Win10 Pro Version Upgrade to 21H1 I got the notice to run the check, all specs were met so I installed Win11. So far it's fine except the Widgets needs a login with Microsoft Account, I haven't established that yet as I went with a Local Account with Administrative Rights to get started.
I think you need at least Intel 8th gen. microprocessor to comply with w11 installation requirements.
Hi, your question is related to Win 10 (not 11) and TPM.
TPM is primarily associated with bitlocker, although bitlocker can also be used on systems without TPM.
Bitlocker is available with Win 10 Pro, not Home - you don't say which is under consideration. If you have Home, I suspect TPM is irrelevant.
See e.g.
What is a TPM, and Why Does Windows Need One For Disk Encryption?
This (and possibly other tutorials) may be of interest - you may find the introductory text of interest:
Verify Trusted Platform Module (TPM) Chip on Windows PC
"Would it be a good idea to add firmware TPM to a W10 pc?" - Sure. 6th generation of intel processors and their mainboards usually have the option to enable Intel PTT (Intels fTPM) in the Bios, which is a TPM2.0 and will support windows 11. However, the processors still aren't supported, since Win11 requires Intel's 8th generation CPUs (with a few added exceptions from 7th generation).
AMD mainboards would need to have a AM4-Socket CPU (Ryzen) to allow using firmware TPMs.
As some of you have understood my question as to whether setting up TPM on a pc which is not going to have W11 on it, I will now have a look in the laptops bios to find out if it is actually possible. It is a Lenovo Ideapad 310 with 8Gb of DDR4, an i3 processor and a Samsung 850 EVO 500 Gb SSD. The only possible problem might be that the W10 is home premium. I believe bitlocker is not suitable for home premium software, but I don't know about TPM.
I have 3 pc's which fully qualify for W11, one running W11 beta, one waiting for the Microsoft update and one which is running Linux Mint at present as I haven't got a copy of W10 to put on it at the moment.
You may run Bitlocker on Home using this method in my article:
How to use Bitlocker on Windows 10 Home | Experts Exchange
- actually there's no such thing.. I think respondents will assume you mean Home.W10 is home premium
Easy enough to check if it has a TPM chip.. you've probably done that already:
Verify Trusted Platform Module (TPM) Chip on Windows PC
It's not in this list:
List of Laptops with TPM Chips (2021 Update) - Feature Lens
But I noted this:
Lenovo Ideapad 310 - 15IKB TPM Issue-English Community
I have been in the laptop's bios and was surprised to find that "Intel Platform Trust Technology" is enabled already, in "user mode" and secure boot is in "standard".
In device manager TPM 2.0 is listed.
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