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No, not all Win7 certified PC can run XP.

I am looking for the best budget for the bang i described. Heaviest load will be the OS, ever

wow, thank's for the tipps. I did not understand, I have a valid key for XP are you saying it is not possible to activate it anymore?

I am thinking about buying/building a new PC for my father. It won't be connected to the internet ever and is going to be used exclusively to view digital photos and opening and printing word documents. He learned how to use a computer on XP and it is very important that this system can run windows XP. Please understand that his actions are limited to moving files, creating folders and renaming them. He uses his notes to do that and moving to a different OS is not an option. Since XP is no longer maintained it won't be supported by any modern motherboard. Even if it could the manufacturer might not bother mention it. I found someone mentioning the EVGA X299 Dark https://www.evga.com/products/product.aspx?pn=151-SX-E299-KRand which does support XP. The price however is prohibitive. Are there any other boards that are known to support XP? If not I'll consider to use a virtual machine. thanks

no, yours prices are different in my country, Masterbox almoust doubles the price. I found one at reasonable price on my local store, i.e., no shipping cost!

really love the case I'll see if I can find a good price for it.

ok, I'll consider this when searching for parts. Maybe I can find an alternative, otherwise fans are cheap. thank you, @Legendarypoet

looks like the case comes with a fan: https://www.aerocool.com.tw/en/chssis/pgs-a/aero300

@Legendarypoet, you mean air instead of water cooling, or in combination with? Masterliquid is in tier 1. I have no experience with OC & cooling yet.

@Legendarypoet, I'll start purchasing parts soon. What does MCE stand for?

PCPartPicker part list: https://pcpartpicker.com/list/LckLkd Price breakdown by merchant: https://pcpartpicker.com/list/LckLkd/by_merchant/ CPU: Intel - Core i7-8700K 3.7GHz 6-Core Processor ($339.00 @ Amazon) CPU Cooler: Cooler Master - MasterLiquid Lite 240 66.7 CFM Liquid CPU Cooler ($59.99 @ Amazon) Motherboard: MSI - Z370-A PRO ATX LGA1151 Motherboard ($115.89 @ OutletPC) Memory: G.Skill - Ripjaws V Series 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR4-3200 Memory ($189.99 @ Newegg) Storage: Samsung - 960 PRO 512GB M.2-2280 Solid State Drive ($299.00 @ Amazon) Storage: *Hitachi - Ultrastar 7K4000 4TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive ($109.99 @ Amazon) Video Card: PNY - Quadro P600 2GB Video Card ($168.99 @ SuperBiiz) Case: Aerocool - Aero-300 Black FAW ATX Mid Tower Case ($49.93 @ Newegg) Power Supply: Corsair - CXM 550W 80+ Bronze Certified Semi-Modular ATX Power Supply ($43.98 @ Newegg) Total: $1376.76 Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available *Lowest price parts chosen from parametric criteria Generated by PCPartPicker 2018-02-21 15:50 EST-0500

hello, Can you comment on my part list? I want to make a workstation for single-threaded and parallel compilation, no graphics processing involved. I don't really have a fixed budget, I live in Portugal. Monitors: 2x 1080p Periferals: Linux OS OC: yes Main focus is on single-core processing power, but multithreading up to 8 threads is also involved. https://pcpartpicker.com/list/LckLkd 1. is the money well spend, are the parts ok? 2. Is it possible to save a bit on the motherboard? 3. comments on savings, or spend a bit more? thank you

hey, thank you all this is very helpful I wasn't aware these chips have IGPU. To mean that you'll at most use 2 cores, not 2 actual CPU dies in a dual socket board. Yes, 2 cores in 1 CPU, sorry. I am a bit nervous about overclocking. Is air cooling good enough? I have no experience with overclocking and cooling this is my first build. Is watercooling expensive/complicated to install? I have no experience with NVMe. I recently bought a 500GB Samsung EVO 850 SSD, 2.5''. 1 TB version is too expensive for me. I'd install my OS'es on 850 SSD and Software and my working directories on NVMe, correct? The Software uses a lot of disk space on temporary files for "caching", can reach 10GB+ per project. Software installation itself has 25GB, too.

yes, forgot to mention: no video editing, 3D, CAD only compilations.

Hello, I want to build a workstation for lots of parallel compilation and single-threaded compilation. I am very unsure about GPU I should choose. There is no CAD software, graphics rendering, video processing involved etc. Here is my summary of descriptions from other users of the software of what such system should look like: The only advice I could find about GPU: So should I care about GPU performance at all, is it important? thank you