Windows 10 support for Legacy Intel CPUs

Hello,

I just installed Windows 10 64 bit on a Pentium E5400 which was not supposed to be supported according to this table:
Does My Intel(R) Processor Support Microsoft Windows(R) 10?

It's Wolfdale and it worked with build 1809. What does it mean? Because I want to "upgrade" to a Core 2 Quad q9450 instead of the E5400 but I don't know how long will I be able to install Windows 10 on this machine

Thanks

I'm running build 2004 64 bit Home on a Wolfdale E7500.

Ben

I just installed Windows 10 64 bit on a Pentium E5400 which was not supposed to be supported according to this table:
Does My Intel(R) Processor Support Microsoft Windows(R) 10?
It's Wolfdale and it worked with build 1809. What does it mean? Because I want to "upgrade" to a Core 2 Quad Q9450 instead of the E5400 but I don't know how long will I be able to install Windows 10 on this machine

The below images show the performance scores and power usages for those 2 processors.
The E5400 is a "Wolfdale" model and the Q9450 is a "Yorkfield" model.

Is your computer a factory-brand one or a self-built one?
If it's a factory-brand one, what is its brand name and model name and model number?
If it's a self-built one, what is the brand name and model number of its motherboard?

thanks guys. It's an old HP dc5800 workstation

mibaup said:

thanks guys. It's an old HP dc5800 workstation

Is it actually a HP Compaq dc5800 Microtower PC or a HP Compaq dc5800 Small Form Factor PC?

flavallee said:

Is it actually a HP Compaq dc5800 Microtower PC or a HP Compaq dc5800 Small Form Factor PC?

indeed, it's the Small Form Factor one

mibaup said:

I just installed Windows 10 64 bit on a Pentium E5400 which was not supposed to be supported according to this table:
Does My Intel(R) Processor Support Microsoft Windows(R) 10?

It's Wolfdale and it worked with build 1809. What does it mean?

'Not supported' means that Intel have not developed Win10 drivers for those chipsets and have no intention of doing so. In particular this would mean that W10 drivers for the integrated graphics are not available from Intel.

For the most part the generic drivers from Microsoft will work just as well, so it's not really a significant a problem, certainly not for my System One in my specs below. That has an 'unsupported' Sandy Bridge Pentium B950 but runs x64 20H2 without issues.

thank you. I did notice the integrated graphics are really bad right now. will need some cheapo gpu