Yes.... and even though your bios has this embedded. I would still extract the windows ten key and copy it. Just to be sure.
You can run Windows 11 on lower than 8 gen intel. There are youtube videos on how-to.
Yes, I’ve run across but not tried any of the workarounds to get Win 11 to run on earlier I-series processors. They were for 6th gen, IIRC. I don’t know if I’ve found any for 3rd or 4th gen (my HP6300’s). In any event, since there’s no rush, I’m inclined to let them (workarounds) “simmer” a bit.