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1 minute ago, JoostinOnline said:

A 920 is pretty old, so it's going to struggle with anything new.

With anything new? Are you sure about that?  Overclocked i7-920 should be still able to run new games without any problems.

2 minutes ago, Qwertic said:

Yeah I know right! But does my motherboard support the xeon. I mean the socket is the same 1366 but does the bios?

It should work on it but make sure you have the latest bios version.

Probably something to do with Windows.

6 minutes ago, Qwertic said:

Thx for reading this! I’m really out of idees right now is this a bad cpu or a bad mobo or just a system error/ software error. In case that it is the cpu could i upgrade to Xeon X5560? Or does my mobo not support that one?

I wouldn't recommend upgrading to a Xeon X5560 because it only has 4c/8t. Some 6c/12t Xeon like X5660, X5670, X5675 etc. would be a lot better upgrade.

1 minute ago, GamerVoice said:

Upgrade your GPU 1st, then upgrade your CPU.

I had a i7-950 with a gtx 1070 , and was able to play witcher 3 wild hunt in max setings in 2560x1600 @60-100 fps. 

I upgraded my CPU to the Ryzen 7 2700x... I don't notice much difference in frame rates. 

The reason I got the 2700x was for x264 streaming  I knew the CPU upgrade would barely affect my fps in gaming... because games are almost ALL GPU bound now a-days.

Maybe he could get the GTX 1080 Ti and upgrade the CPU to a Xeon X5675 or similar 6-core Xeon and overclock to 4.2GHz or higher

You don't have a battery?

Yes, it's still good for gaming.

I'd recommend upgrading to a Xeon X5675 (or some other similar 6-core Xeon) and overclocking it to 4.2+GHz

Cinebench R15 on my Xeon X5670 @ 4.44GHz:

CPU-Z benchmark @ 4.32GHz vs Ryzen 5 1600

46 minutes ago, Kenjo said:

Hey peeps, couldnt help but read the thread and a simple google search for the g41 chipset shows it supports the q6600

Just recently put a q8200 on a g31 express chipset (dell optiplex 330) and the documentation said it wouldnt support it but alas it works like a charm, Should have checked google prior to asking btw your q 9xxx will be fine ,) 

 

Of course the g41 chipset supports the Q6600 but some OEM boards doesn't work with high TDP CPUs.

I've put a Q6600 on a Q45 chipset (hp dc7900 sff) which doesn't officially support any Q6000 series CPUs but it works just fine. But I've heard that some people have had problems with similar OEM PCs crashing under load or not booting at all.

It doesn't seem to support the Q6600 (105W ).

Motherboard supports the following processor upgrades:

Core 2 Quad Q8xx0/Q9xx0 (Yorkfield core) (95W)

Core 2 Duo E8xx0 (Wolfdale core) (65W)

Core 2 Duo E7xx0 (Wolfdale core) (65W)

Pentium Dual Core E5xx0 (Wolfdale core) (65W)

Celeron Dual Core E1xx0 (Conroe core) (65W)

Celeron 4xx series (Conroe core) (35W)

https://support.hp.com/us-en/document/c01903990

Edit: I'm slow

6 hours ago, okar said:

Whats the deal with galaxy note? Its difficult to find anything between note 5 and 8.

There was only Note 7 between Note 5 and 8.

And if you don't remember, Note 7 was this one:

What's your budget for the phone? And you probably want 5.5" 16:9 screen? those new 18.5:9 etc. screens have a lot smaller screen area than "same size" 16:9 screens.

Have you tried it with all original parts and with only single ram stick at the time and are you sure all the other parts work? Really weird that it doesn't even beep, I have two HP 400's and both always beep the error codes if GPU, ram or something else doesn't work or isn't connected.

And by the "Delta 450 oem psu" you mean the original 475W Delta PSU? If its some other Delta PSU it could have killed the mobo or something.

Edit: Does the mobos have 6 or 4 dimm slots? The older 1 Gen. Z400 (4 dimm slots) doesn't support 6 core CPUs

Yes, it is.

3 minutes ago, backfisch said:

is PC3-12800R registered? I´m not sure what the r means but the offer never says something about registered

Yes. R means it's registered.

U = normal non-ECC non-registered

E = ECC non-registered

R = ECC Registered

2 minutes ago, backfisch said:

this  should propably work right?

Yes, that should work.

You can't use ECC Registered memory on any X58 board. Normal non-registered ECC memory should work but those usually cost the same as a non-ecc ram.

I'm pretty sure you can't BSEL mod the Pentium D and it's already running at 3.4GHz...

Don't get an AMD Athlon XP. It doesn't support SSE2 so newer WinXP games and programs wouldn't work on it. I'd recommend getting some E7000 or E8000 series Core2 Duo. LGA775 boards should work just fine with any modern power supply unlike Athlon XPs.

Pentium 4 and Athlon XP would be good options only if you wanted to build an actual retro PC with AGP and IDE. And system like that would be only good for 2000-2005 games and stuff.

I actually have 3 different XP retro gaming PCs (Tbh I have a lot more than 3 XP PCs)
 

What kind of monitor you are going to use? Most of the older XP games doesn't support widescreen resolutions. If you have a 16:9 monitor, you'd probably want to use GPU scaling with fixed aspect-ratio if your monitor doesn't have a 4:3 or 5:4 mode.

Just now, GoodBytes said:

But he won't be able to use the "64" part of his "Athlon 64", as 32-bit Windows XP is well 32-bit. So why waste money?

 

Most people back in the days of Athlon 64 used 32bit WinXP. And waste of money?  Athlon 64s are really cheap

For a high end Windows XP system I'd recommend something like Core2 Duo E8400, E8500 or E8600. Those CPUs have pretty good single-core performance and should be cheap and easy to find and LGA775 mobos are easy to find too. And most Windows XP games doesn't use more than 2 cores so in old games Core2 Quad Q9650 etc. wouldn't be better than those. And of course you'd want 4gb of ram for 32bit XP.

And for GPU? Idk... Some say that the GTX 285 is the best DX9 graphics card. But anything that have WinXP drivers should be fine.

System like that should be more than enough to run all Windows XP games etc. without any problems. I don't think you'd need anything more powerful than that since games newer than 2008/2009 should work just fine with a modern OS.

Gameplay difference? Not really. On a gaming monitor (and TN panels in general) you'll have much worse colors, contrast and viewing angles than on the CRT monitors but response time shouldn't be too much worse since it's a gaming monitor.

You can compare different screen sizes and aspect ratios here: http://www.displaywars.com/27-inch-16x9-vs-34-inch-21x9 as you can see 34" ultrawide is as tall as 27" 16:9. I have one 27" 1080p 16:9 monitor and I can say it's way too big for a 1080p as a PC monitor. I'd recommend max 24" 16:9 for 1080p PC monitor which would be as tall as 30" ultrawide

IMO 27" (16:9) is a great size for 1440p so I'd go with it.

No. It doesn't support 800MHz FSB CPUs. Intel Core2 Duo T7600 (667MHz FSB) is the best one it supports

6 minutes ago, speedbeastxx said:

My board is the Asus P6T X58

the first pcie 16x gpu lock is broken.

It's still a decent board but not the best one though. I paid 98€ / $115 for my P6X58D-E (with broken PCI-E lock) in 2016 and I've seen similar boards still going for over 100€.

If there is anything you want to know regarding X58 platform, I'd recommend checking this thread:

18 minutes ago, speedbeastxx said:

wow that much for an x58 board, cool. also i got the gpu wrong, its a 5670

Yeah, because X58 is still pretty good platform. Radeon HD 5670 isn't worth more than 10-25 USD.

Some benchmarks on my overclocked X58 system:

Maybe you could get about 100-150 USD for the mobo if it works. That i7-960 isn't worth much because you can get a 6-core Xeon X5650 for about $25