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Ultimate windows XP build

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If you were to put together a windows XP gaming build what would you put together? I was too young to know anything about pc gaming when xp was replaced with windows 7 though i i do remember my mom getting a new laptop with windows 7 and being amazed at the graphical design of the taskbar. I'm sure you could use fairly modern components but thats no fun. I would much rather go all out on hardware that came out at the time of windows xp so leave your lists down below. Granted i am not building any of these but maybe linus will if he sees the thread...

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GTX 970 FTW

MSI Z97 PC MATE

Define R5 windowed

Cooler Master Seidon 240m

EVGA SuperNOVA 650 G1

Kingston 120gb SSD

SanDisk 480Gb SSD

Seagate 1Tb Hard drive

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Take a look at the one in my signature, Obso1337. It works wonders at 1080p, but I'm changing it up and replacing it with a SFF Optiplex GX270 that's going to have a PCI HD 2400 installed.

 

The great thing about XP era builds is that you can find your equipment on the side of the curb, literally and figuratively. The guts of Obso1337 came from a guy I was going to pay $15 for an old P4 system, then he changed his mind and just gave it to me on my way there because he couldn't get it to POST. Works just fine now.

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3 minutes ago, TheBeastPC said:

This is a build with the 5GHz AMD FX-9590, Radeon R9 270X graphics card, modern SSD and a whopping 4GB of RAM. @SuperCookie78

 

How about this?

 

 

 

yes but that is modern hardware i'm thinking era correct parts even if they came out when vista was a thing.

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GTX 970 FTW

MSI Z97 PC MATE

Define R5 windowed

Cooler Master Seidon 240m

EVGA SuperNOVA 650 G1

Kingston 120gb SSD

SanDisk 480Gb SSD

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21 minutes ago, SuperCookie78 said:

 

 

yes but that is modern hardware i'm thinking era correct parts even if they came out when vista was a thing.

I mean... a core 2 quad and an 8800 gt would handle any xp era games and theyre readily available and cheap

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I think, IIRC, at the height of Windows XP I was rocking an Athlon 64 X2 4400+ on an Asus M2R32-MVP with... hmmm probably an X1800 or X1900 and 2GB DDR400. I still have most of that setup actually in my tech pile. Shortly after that was the switch to Core2Duo and Windows Vista though.

 

*Edit. A typical early-mid Windows XP system (for me anyways) was an Athlon XP (usually a 2500+) with 1GB DDR and an X850 XT. There were lots of configurations though, Windows XP was around for a long time obviously.

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you didnt miss much. XP wasnt nearly as awesome as everybody likes to remember. up until SP2 it was one of the worst operating systems to date.

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41 minutes ago, Tsuki said:

you didnt miss much. XP wasnt nearly as awesome as everybody likes to remember. up until SP2 it was one of the worst operating systems to date.

well i did use it i just wasn't into computers like i am today because i was 7

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4690K @ 4.5GHz

GTX 970 FTW

MSI Z97 PC MATE

Define R5 windowed

Cooler Master Seidon 240m

EVGA SuperNOVA 650 G1

Kingston 120gb SSD

SanDisk 480Gb SSD

Seagate 1Tb Hard drive

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5 hours ago, Tsuki said:

you didnt miss much. XP wasnt nearly as awesome as everybody likes to remember. up until SP2 it was one of the worst operating systems to date.

Have to disagree. For consumers XP was desperately needed to replace the travesty that was Windows ME. It brought the more stable NT platform to consumer desktops. In the enterprise arena though 2000 reigned supreme.

 

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My Pentium 4 retro gaming PC with parts from arround 2003-2004 and it would have been pretty high end at that time.

 

Intel Pentium 4 HT 3.0GHz

Gigabyte GA-8SGXL

2gb DDR1

ATI Radeon 9800 Pro 128mb

2x 40gb HDD

Windows XP Professional

 

High end Windows XP gaming PC before Vista came out would have been something like that:

Intel Core2 Duo E6700 @ 2.66GHz

2gb DDR2 memory

NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GT(S)

Intel Core i9-9980XE 18c/36t, Asus TUF X299 Mark 1, 128GB DDR4 3200MHz, Palit RTX 5070, 2TB 970 EVO Plus, 2TB SN570, 8TB HDD, Meshify 2

PC 2: AMD Ryzen 7 3700X 8c/16t, MSI X470 Carbon, 32GB DDR4 2666MHz, Asus GTX 1080 Strix, 512GB Samsung PM981, 1TB Crucial MX500, Fractal Define R4

Old PC: Intel Xeon X5670 6c/12t @ 4.40GHz, Asus P6X58D-E, 48GB DDR3 1600MHz, EVGA GTX 970 ACX 2.0, 500GB, 250GB & 120GB SSD, 10TB & 2x 4TB HDD, Fractal Define R5

PC 3: Intel Xeon E5-2690 8c/16t @ 3.3-3.8GHz, ThinkStation S30 (C602/X79), 64GB (4x 16GB) DDR3 1600MHz, Asus GeForce GTX 960 Turbo OC, 1TB Crucial MX500

Laptop: ThinkPad T440p, Intel Core i7-4800MQ 4c/8t @ 2.7-3.7GHz, 16GB DDR3 1600MHz, GeForce GT 730M (GPU: 1006MHz MEM: 1151MHz), 2TB SSD, 14" 1080p IPS, 100Wh battery

Phone: Samsung Galaxy S23 256GB Watch: Samsung Galaxy Watch7 44mm LTE

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Some other PC's:

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Z77: Intel Core i7-3770 4c/8t @ 4.22-4.43GHz, Asus P8Z77-V LK, 32GB DDR3 1648MHz, Asus RX 470 Strix, 1TB & 250GB Crucial MX500 and 3x 500GB HDD

PC 4: Intel Xeon X5675 6c/12t @ 3.07-3.47GHz, HP 0B4Ch (X58), 12GB DDR3 1333MHz, Asus GeForce GTX 660 DC2, 240GB & 120GB SSD, 1TB HDD

PC 5: Intel Xeon W3550 @ 3.07GHz, HP (X58), 8GB DDR3, NVIDIA GeForce GT 640 (GPU: 1050MHz MEM: 1250MHz), 120GB SSD, 2TB, 1TB and 500GB HDD

PC 6: Intel Core2 Quad Q9550 @ 3.8GHz, Asus P5KC, 8GB DDR2, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 470, 120GB SSD and 500GB HDD

HTPC: Intel Core2 Quad Q6600 @ 3.0GHz, HP DC7900SFF, 8GB DDR2 800MHz, Asus Radeon HD 6570, 240GB SSD and 3TB HDD

WinXP PC: Intel Core2 Duo E6300 @ 2.33GHz, Asus P5B, 2GB DDR2 667MHz, NVIDIA GeForce 8500 GT, 32GB SSD and 80GB HDD

RetroPC: Intel Pentium 4 HT @ 3.0GHz, Gigabyte GA-8SGXLFS, 2gb DDR1, ATi Radeon 9800 Pro, 2x 40gb HDD

My first PC: Intel Celeron 333MHz, Diamond Micronics C400, 384mb RAM, Diamond Viper V550 (NVIDIA Riva TNT), 6gb and 8gb HDD

Server: 2x Intel Xeon E5420, Dell PowerEdge 2950, 32gb DDR2, ATI ES1000, 4x 146gb SAS

Dual Opteron PC: 2x 6-core AMD Opteron 2419EE, HP XW9400, 32GB DDR2, ATI Radeon 3650, 500gb HDD

Core2 Duo PC: Intel Core2 Duo E8400, HP DC7800, 4gb DDR2, NVIDIA Quadro FX1700, 1tb and 80gb HDD

Athlon XP PC: AMD Athlon XP 2400+, MSI something, 1,5gb DDR1, ATI Radeon 9200, 40gb HDD

Thinkpad: Intel Core2 Duo T7200, Lenovo Thinkpad T60, 4gb DDR2, ATI Mobility Radeon X1400, 1tb HDD

Pentium 3 PC: Intel Pentium 3 866MHz, Asus CUSL2-C, 512mb RAM, 3DFX VooDoo 3 2000 AGP

Laptop: Dell Latitude E6430, Intel Core i5-3210M, 6gb DDR3 1600MHz , Intel HD 4000, 250gb Samsung SSD 860 EVO, 1TB WD Blue HDD

Laptop: Latitude 3380, Intel Pentium Gold 4415U 2c/4t @ 2.3GHz, 8GB DDR4, Intel HD 610, 120GB SSD, 13.3" 768p TN, 56Wh battery

Phone: Huawei Honor 9 64GB + 256GB card Watch: Motorola Moto 360 1st Gen.

Laptop 2: ThinkPad T450, Intel Core i7-5600U 2c/4t @ 2.6-3.2GHz, 16GB DDR3 1600MHz, Intel HD 5500, 250GB SSD, 14" 900p TN, 24Wh + 72Wh batteries

 

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On 2/7/2018 at 8:32 PM, Guest said:

This is a build with the 5GHz AMD FX-9590, Radeon R9 270X graphics card, modern SSD and a whopping 4GB of RAM. @SuperCookie78

Sorry. But this was when xp was technically still supported by manufacturers. In fact. The graphics card Austin chose was not the most powerful card. The fastest gpu for xp is an nivida tian black. Also he should've used the x64 edition of xp because it can support a lot more than a measly 4gb of ram. If fact I have came up with a parts list to create a true ultimate xp gaming machine, featuring some of the last parts to ever support the 21 year old os. Also Linus. If you are here reading this, and want to make this idea possible. Hit me up. And we can show people the true ultimate xp pc.

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