XP Meme Machine

[krq]

XP Meme Machine (Not sure if someone already did this)

 

OS: Windows XP Professional 

CPU: AMD Athlon XP 3200+

GPU: NVIDIA Titan XP

Motherboard: Any compatible one I'm not sure

RAM: Any compatible RAM modules that's compatible with the motherboard.

 

Haven't check compatibility but I don't care.

[MrDrWho13]

I don't think there will be Titan XP drivers for Windows XP

[ProjectBox153]

As mentioned by @MrDrWho13, this is pointless because of missing drivers. This is stupid anyways.

[Shreyas1]

No drivers 

 

Austin Evans did this some time ago

[Guest]

Next best thing, 100 XP VMs running nested XP VMs within! (Need a different CPU of course )

[Princess Luna]

Quite the waste of time.

[Guest]

10 minutes ago, tjcater said:

Next best thing, 100 XP VMs running nested XP VMs within! (Need a different CPU of course )

Now that intrigues me!

[panther420]

25 minutes ago, ChrispyMC said:

Haven't check compatibility but I don't care.

Eh.. that's kind of an integral part for the system you described to work even in a basic sense.

 

1) Titan XP doesn't have windows XP drivers and really shouldn't for that matter

 

2) Titan XP only runs on PCI-E, I'm pretty sure Socket A and Slot A only uses AGP and even if there was a Socket A or Slot A motherboard with AGP it would be using a first-gen PCI-e which would likely be incompatible with the titan XP. Mainly not enough bandwidth and complete mismatch of generations.

 

3) the Titan XP likely doesn't have a legacy video BIOS booting mode, though I haven't checked. What I mean by that is that it probably requires UEFI to boot properly.

 

4) A plethora of issues that wouldn't even come to mind initially but you would definitely face.

 

5) This is about as funny as going into PCPartPicker, making a dual Xeon E7 system with 8 4TB NVME Pcie SSDS, 4 Titan Vs and posting on a forum saying you just made the best budget console killer ever.

[AshleyAshes]

26 minutes ago, MrDrWho13 said:

I don't think there will be Titan XP drivers for Windows XP

 

24 minutes ago, Jamiec1130 said:

As mentioned by @MrDrWho13, this is pointless because of missing drivers. This is stupid anyways.

 

23 minutes ago, Shreyas1 said:

No drivers 

 

Austin Evans did this some time ago

DRIVERS!?  Drivers are the LEAST of your problems.

There are no PCIE capable chipsets for Socket A CPUs.  You can't FIT a Titan XP into a Athlon XP board. 

[Guest]

2 minutes ago, Legendarypoet said:

Now that intrigues me!

Only issue I would see, is if there is a hypervisor with nesting support that can even run on XP.

Edited January 6, 2018 by Guest
To many evens

[panther420]

4 minutes ago, tjcater said:

Only issue I would see, is if there is a hypervisor with nesting support that can even run on XP.

I don't think so, because hypervisors required major additions in OS features in order to run when they started to become mainstream, which was after the introduction of XP. Hyper-V, for one, was only introduced in Windows Server 2008 (Seems like Vista might have it too). As far as I'm aware, Windows XP nor any of its service packs allow the use of Hyper-V. Besides, the performance would probably be terrible.

[Guest]

3 hours ago, panther420 said:

I don't think so, because hypervisors required major additions in OS features in order to run when they started to become mainstream, which was after the introduction of XP. Hyper-V, for one, was only introduced in Windows Server 2008 (Seems like Vista might have it too). As far as I'm aware, Windows XP nor any of its service packs allow the use of Hyper-V. Besides, the performance would probably be terrible.

Just for fun I searched for 3rd party VMs that supported nesting and XP. Surprisingly I found out that it might be possible with VMware. The latest version XP supports is Workstation 10, which supports a feature called Virtualized HV (Which is what their docs say is required for a guest hypervisor). Buuut this leads to another possible issue: Virtualized HV support also needs the processor to have VT-x and EPT or AMD-V and RVI. Good news is that processors with sufficient ability appeared as early as 2010 from Intel and 2007/2008 from AMD. But in the end, this still might have the issue where it could need an OS feature not present in XP or it has another compatibility issue

Edit: @Legendarypoet