Windows XP on Modern Hardware????

[TradeMark]

My dad is one of those people that refuse to move on past the old. He thinks that XP is the best thing ever and refuses to try anything above it. I go over to his house every so often and cringe at his computers due to their slow speed and their almost unusable condition. I would like to do something nice for him and upgrade his computers to something more modern but at the same time run XP. I haven't picked out any hardware yet because I'm wanting to make sure it's possible before I commit to anything. Help..... Please.

[crysilis]

13 minutes ago, TradeMark said:

My dad is one of those people that refuse to move on past the old. He thinks that XP is the best thing ever and refuses to try anything above it. I go over to his house every so often and cringe at his computers due to their slow speed and their almost unusable condition. I would like to do something nice for him and upgrade his computers to something more modern but at the same time run XP. I haven't picked out any hardware yet because I'm wanting to make sure it's possible before I commit to anything. Help..... Please.

 LOL OMG I dare you to give him vista

[synnapt]

nor sure but probly most hardware wudent hawe drivers suported by win xp

[Networking Wolf]

You need to get him off of XP because if he doesn't have firewall and anti virus protection things could go bad. Windows 7 is a good option and windows 10 is a hit or miss. I would strongly urge not taking him to windows 8.1 due to the fact that it is, for older people at least that I know, very confusing

[MimigaKing]

22 minutes ago, TradeMark said:

My dad is one of those people that refuse to move on past the old. He thinks that XP is the best thing ever and refuses to try anything above it. I go over to his house every so often and cringe at his computers due to their slow speed and their almost unusable condition. I would like to do something nice for him and upgrade his computers to something more modern but at the same time run XP. I haven't picked out any hardware yet because I'm wanting to make sure it's possible before I commit to anything. Help..... Please.

your big issue is that there will be absolutely no drivers for windows xp on any hardware you would purchase nowadays. 

Even Nvidia doesn't do Windows xp drivers anymore starting with their 900 serie GPU. 

 

If you were to purchase a motherboard, you probably wouldn't get internet, GPU, audio to work at all. 

 

Really, the era of windows xp is over and there's nothing you can do really. 

 

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Although, if you REALLY wanted to get him windows xp, you COULD always set him up a virtual machine on autoboot and runs from there. I wouldn't see any other way. 

 

 

[porina]

Guy where I work was like that. He resisted Win7 to the bitter end, and only relented when they found and stuck an XP style shell on top of Win7. Happy as can be now.

[AresKrieger]

7 minutes ago, DEcobra11 said:

There's classic style (don't confuse with basic) in W7 so that would be a nice trick

 

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Yep just have to change the background to the windows xp standard one (+ a couple of other cosmestic changes) and magic you have xp with more features, honestly as a former xp user who wanted nothing to do with vista windows 7 has always been great for me and is the only OS I'd recommend.

[Nostalgia_Realm]

On 5/17/2016 at 5:19 AM, TradeMark said:

My dad is one of those people that refuse to move on past the old. He thinks that XP is the best thing ever and refuses to try anything above it. I go over to his house every so often and cringe at his computers due to their slow speed and their almost unusable condition. I would like to do something nice for him and upgrade his computers to something more modern but at the same time run XP. I haven't picked out any hardware yet because I'm wanting to make sure it's possible before I commit to anything. Help..... Please.

There's no current hardware that will have drivers for Windows XP. The newest PC in our house that still has driver support for XP is my brother's LGA1156 PC from 2010. Just get him to at least move on to something that is still supported (Win7+) and run a virtual machine for XP on the side.

 

  

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[VulcanAndroid]

1 hour ago, TradeMark said:

My dad is one of those people that refuse to move on past the old. He thinks that XP is the best thing ever and refuses to try anything above it. I go over to his house every so often and cringe at his computers due to their slow speed and their almost unusable condition. I would like to do something nice for him and upgrade his computers to something more modern but at the same time run XP. I haven't picked out any hardware yet because I'm wanting to make sure it's possible before I commit to anything. Help..... Please.

I completely understand the trouble you face. Windows XP was and still is an excellent OS. I won't try to reiterate anything the other posters have said (some are quite rude). Depending on what hardware your dad currently has you may want to look into the Intel 775 CPU's specifically the Core2Quad chips. These chips, especially the q6600 are awesome chips. They were the i7's of their time. And don't think that just because they are dated they aren't powerful. I have personally used a q6600 in my gaming rig. They will run most any OS from XP up to W10. If you get the right motherboard they can also be quite impressively overclocked.

 

What does your Dad do with his current setup? If he likes XP so much. Maybe try to expose him to Linux (Mint) It feels like XP while being a modern OS and the best part is that its *FREE* 

 

If you were to go down the Linux Route as with any other OS upgrade you could use the newest hardware without a single problem at all!

 

Finally, my last suggestion is to take an OS like W8.1 and adjust its theme to look and act like XP. It is possible and I have done it on my laptop since I hate the W8.1 metro interface. 

[PalladianPD]

You could get an older system for which XP support still exists - I got a Dell T5500 with a couple of Xeon E5640s and a Quadro 5000 for a very reasonable price. Just added SSD and it was flying on XP. Not saying you should get that exact system, but there are bargains to be had IMO.

[TradeMark]

21 hours ago, VulcanAndroid said:

What does your Dad do with his current setup? If he likes XP so much. Maybe try to expose him to Linux (Mint) It feels like XP while being a modern OS and the best part is that its *FREE* 

Mostly he just goes online and looks up youtube videos but always complains about the lag that he gets from it. I may try to get him on linux though if I do decide to build him another computer. Thanks

 

11 hours ago, PalladianPD said:

You could get an older system for which XP support still exists - I got a Dell T5500 with a couple of Xeon E5640s and a Quadro 5000 for a very reasonable price. Just added SSD and it was flying on XP. Not saying you should get that exact system, but there are bargains to be had IMO.

That solution may hold some potential. I'll look into that.

 

23 hours ago, MimigaKing said:

your big issue is that there will be absolutely no drivers for windows xp on any hardware you would purchase nowadays. 

Even Nvidia doesn't do Windows xp drivers anymore starting with their 900 serie GPU. 

 

If you were to purchase a motherboard, you probably wouldn't get internet, GPU, audio to work at all. 

 

Really, the era of windows xp is over and there's nothing you can do really. 

That's a good point.. another thing that will have to be considered.

 

 

Alright, Thank you to everyone that helped. I'll add on to this thread if anything comes out of this.

[TradeMark]

Alright, so while surfing through Youtube I found this: 

by Austin Evans

 

Seeing this got me thinking about this thread and I may go along with his build and have it as a dual-boot partition along side Windows 7. In the video he tells of using the 5GHz AMD FX-9590 along with the Radeon R9 270X graphics card, with both maintaining support for XP.

[vanished]

On 5/17/2016 at 5:19 AM, TradeMark said:

My dad is one of those people that refuse to move on past the old. He thinks that XP is the best thing ever and refuses to try anything above it. I go over to his house every so often and cringe at his computers due to their slow speed and their almost unusable condition. I would like to do something nice for him and upgrade his computers to something more modern but at the same time run XP. I haven't picked out any hardware yet because I'm wanting to make sure it's possible before I commit to anything. Help..... Please.

Based on time between release dates, XP is currently older than Windows 2.0 was when XP was released.  Windows XP lasted longer than WWI and WWII combined.  If that doesn't send home the "IT'S TOO OLD" message, nothing will.

[JakeNTech]

Windows 7 is newer, has much better support and it is very similar to XP. We all have to make changes sometimes.

[vanished]

1 minute ago, fixitnow said:

Windows 7 is newer, has much better support and it is very similar to XP. We all have to make changes sometimes.

And even it has support dropped in January... last year! (I should add that to my list above ) 

[JakeNTech]

1 minute ago, Ryan_Vickers said:

And even it has support dropped in January... last year! (I should add that to my list above ) 

True, but that's just main stream support.https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/lifecycle/search/default.aspx?alpha=windows 7

[vanished]

2 minutes ago, fixitnow said:

True, but that's just main stream support.https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/lifecycle/search/default.aspx?alpha=windows 7

But it's still like going looking for someone, only to learn that their grandchildren are already dead of old age  

[LabRat]

old thread but........ OP, just wondering if you got anywhere with this. I run a 32bit xp pro on an APU and modern motherboard ( fm2 ) with ddr3 ram.