- Downloaded
- 510.5 GB
- Uploaded
- 24.8 TB
- Ratio
- 49.71
- Seedbonus
- 27,996
- Upload Count
- 1 (1)
Member for 7 years
Totally Impartial Review:
------------------------------------------------------------------
I say Impartial cause I don't want anyone, especially the other modders, to think that any level of friendship with FBConan is affecting my "review". I will try to do this with a few builds from all modders that I find I personally like, in the future. Also please note I am talking as a user and not an admin of this site.
I decided that this build would be my first try on Windows 11 modded builds (other than my own). I actually wanted to perform the test on hard and real-life conditions and not in a VM where the outcome is very limited and predictable.
The hardware was an ultra-portable laptop, with an n4000 Celeron with 4 GB RAM, onboard graphics (U-600), 128 GB SSD, and some other goodies like fingerprint, webcam, Bluetooth, etc. If it managed to run on this laptop, it would run anywhere.
Outcome:
----------------------------------------------------------------
It did a LOT better than I thought it would and I have to say almost if not equal to LTSC (but this is a win if you think we are comparing 10 to 11). Installed Office 21 LTSC and Chrome with a few add-ons and it managed to run them very fast. Actually, it was faster than what bigger laptops would do with stock windows. Of course, the issues start popping up once you overload the system like using 10 tabs in Chrome, etc. but that is in no way an issue with the build. If the hardware isn't enough, no Windows build can save you. Amazing visuals (didn't expect anything less from FBC).
The only issues I can find are the ones that Windows 11 has as an OS and I think that is what most users run to.
No1. OLD Drivers. If your hardware doesn't have drivers for Windows 11 from the manufacturer (especially for laptops) you will run into issues, especially with intel. The graphic driver from Intel gave issues (high CPU usage) but then again it was a driver from 2020. Suggestion: Let Windows use its own drivers from Windows update. Those work.
No2. Dont aim higher than what your hardware can do. 4 GB shared ram for example doesn't give room to do things. Os needs about 1 GB with full drivers loaded, shared RAM will use the amount you set to share, and Windows will always try to set 512 MB free for any use so that gives you about 1.5 GB of RAM. If your app needs more and you don't have a decent SSD to swap... you are out of luck. The same goes for the CPU.. 2 cores without HT can only do so much. Good to run office but don't expect video editing at 4k.
Conclusion
-----------------------------------------------------------
Very good build and what FBComan promised about this Windows, he delivered. Runs awesome even on low specs and will test on high specs later on.
Highly recommended.
------------------------------------------------------------------
I say Impartial cause I don't want anyone, especially the other modders, to think that any level of friendship with FBConan is affecting my "review". I will try to do this with a few builds from all modders that I find I personally like, in the future. Also please note I am talking as a user and not an admin of this site.
I decided that this build would be my first try on Windows 11 modded builds (other than my own). I actually wanted to perform the test on hard and real-life conditions and not in a VM where the outcome is very limited and predictable.
The hardware was an ultra-portable laptop, with an n4000 Celeron with 4 GB RAM, onboard graphics (U-600), 128 GB SSD, and some other goodies like fingerprint, webcam, Bluetooth, etc. If it managed to run on this laptop, it would run anywhere.
Outcome:
----------------------------------------------------------------
It did a LOT better than I thought it would and I have to say almost if not equal to LTSC (but this is a win if you think we are comparing 10 to 11). Installed Office 21 LTSC and Chrome with a few add-ons and it managed to run them very fast. Actually, it was faster than what bigger laptops would do with stock windows. Of course, the issues start popping up once you overload the system like using 10 tabs in Chrome, etc. but that is in no way an issue with the build. If the hardware isn't enough, no Windows build can save you. Amazing visuals (didn't expect anything less from FBC).
The only issues I can find are the ones that Windows 11 has as an OS and I think that is what most users run to.
No1. OLD Drivers. If your hardware doesn't have drivers for Windows 11 from the manufacturer (especially for laptops) you will run into issues, especially with intel. The graphic driver from Intel gave issues (high CPU usage) but then again it was a driver from 2020. Suggestion: Let Windows use its own drivers from Windows update. Those work.
No2. Dont aim higher than what your hardware can do. 4 GB shared ram for example doesn't give room to do things. Os needs about 1 GB with full drivers loaded, shared RAM will use the amount you set to share, and Windows will always try to set 512 MB free for any use so that gives you about 1.5 GB of RAM. If your app needs more and you don't have a decent SSD to swap... you are out of luck. The same goes for the CPU.. 2 cores without HT can only do so much. Good to run office but don't expect video editing at 4k.
Conclusion
-----------------------------------------------------------
Very good build and what FBComan promised about this Windows, he delivered. Runs awesome even on low specs and will test on high specs later on.
Highly recommended.
Last edited:
