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Sandy Bridge is too old for CachyOS. Cachy compiles the kernel with optimizations for newer CPUs
https://wiki.cachyos.org/installation/installation_prepare/
Wrong, I'm running a sandy bridge on cachyos right now
If you look at recommended requirements on that page, it suggests the x86_v3 but minimum doesn't. It's a little confusing but the following section seems to just be explaining that term for the recommended level? If I'm wrong though I'll gladly cross it out.