I recently purchased a hp SFF pc to use as a truenas server and I noticed it has vpro, had no idea what it was untill I looked it up, I tried its KVM and it was awesome! It’s very neat being able to remote control into a computer with ANY os and even access bios! I saw online how much this type of stuff costs and it’s really expensive to buy a kvm machine to contor your computer remotley without software, but VPRO is more than enough and it’s free, I was wondering if there’s some way to buy intel cpus with vpro without buying it used?
vPro is something the CPU supports. Intel publishes a list at https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/products/details/processors/vpro/products.html but if you’re interested in a particular CPU I’d just search for Intel’s specifications page. Generally you’re not going to find vPro on anything lower than an i5, but just because it’s an i7 it’s not guaranteed either so it’s best to check.
These CPU’s are widely available in OEM prebuilts as well as boxed CPU’s available at retail. As I mentioned before it’s the motherboard support you really have to watch for. With prebuilts it’ll often be something the manufacturer will call out, and for OEMs you will likely will only find it on their business lineup.