Fantastic project! In fact, I have a very similar machine from "this period". For me personally, it was a very important and sentimental period in the history of computers and games from today's perspective. In my so-called "The Dream Machine of 2007" (with Windows Vista 64bit) I have: Core 2 Extreme X6800 @3.6GHz, Asus Striker Extreme, Zalman CNPS9700 LED, 4x 2GB DDR2 1066MHz OCZ Reaper, 300GB HDD WD Velociraptor and of course 2x EVGA 8800GTX in SLI but I also have 2x 8800 Ultra in my collection. Everything is packed into an moded Antec 300 case and powered by an XFX 750W power supply.
I don't understand people that insist on artificial period correctness restrictions, like if all of us back then didn't upgraded our XP machines with newer components but choose to maintain a previous OS.
Well, the QX6700 and 8800 GTX predate Windows Vista by a few months, so it is technically still period correct. But it was a high-end CPU at the time, especially for Windows XP, when games couldn't really take advantage of more than 2 cores.
WinXP was my jam when the only games I played were flash games. Tried to play Minecraft, but the machine couldn’t render above 10fps… man I loved that machine.
This was a really enjoyable watch! Between the script, the cinematography, and the background music, I found myself feeling entertained and informed. My favorite video of yours yet.
Awesome build I just did another XP build this year using a true XP era gateway gaming case with oem XP badging replacing the hardware with a 2013 era Intel platform including pentium G620 2/2t Sandy bridge CPU and 2x1gb of Mushkin black DDR3 1066 cl 5-5-5-15 and a AMD HD6770 1gb 800mhz GPU and WD 640gb Blue HDD all while retaining the original 300watt power supply. Great lil retro gaming build even have a 1900x600 monitor and period correct PS keyboard and mouse.
2007 Centurion 5 Case, Hey I am sure someone who had this case has told you the name by now, but this is it! Very cool build. I would have freaked out to see this in 2007.
I have a Core 2 Duo E8400, which is only 4-5% weaker than the CPU you're using, but I'm stuck with an A6-5400K at the moment, which is a bit weaker than the two afore mentioned CPU and intends to crash whilst struggling with Crysis in DX9 Mode (it might be that cursed Piledriver architecture), or even Borderlands Game of the Year Edition. Albeit being an overkill for such a system (my XP rig's name is 0V3RK1LL because of it), I use a GTX 750 Ti OC LP from Gigabyte equipped w/ 2GB VRAM. This card of mine is a fookin' BEAST! When I first switched from IGP to this card, the difference was too enormous for me to comprehend (I was 14 at that time). This card is the key to the raw power in my XP build combined w/ my E8400. I also have a Geforce 210, which is currently sitting on my shelf in a box... That card might be more period correct than the GTX 750 Ti, but it's still weaker than your 8800 GTX-s. I have an Audigy Rx sound card, which has EAX support as well as an acceptable price. A 400W PSU might not be able to give the oomph it needs, so I plan to switch it to 500, or 550W. For the RAM sitch, I'd rather use 2GB of DDR3 RAM, because: - it's a tad bit faster - 2 gigs is more than enough for games that can be run on XP - compatibility issues w/ Sonic Mega Collection + I'd love to use an SSD drive for the OS (240-250GB should do the job) and an HDD drive for them games (1TB).
Awesome vid man, well done! Loved XP all those years ago. I'm just about to build an XP machine on the mighty 2600K. Can't wait to see how it performs!
Splitting the 12V rail seemed to be the conventional wisdom in that time period, even on quality power supplies. A few very high end, high power units like the original Corsair HX 1000 had true multiple 12V rails. Essentially two power supplies in one housing connected at the 0V lines. I've been wanting to build an XP computer for nostalgia, since the very first computer I bought with my own money to sit in my first apartment was an XP based Sony Vaio. It was the only new PC I bought before I started building my own.
Great video! I basically had this pc back in the day! I don't remember the motherboard but I don't think it was Evga. I had tril-sli 8800gtx's and I remember I got 14th on the 3d mark vantage leader board for like a week. Tri-sli was stuttering mess and I eventually just used the 3rd card for Physx. I had a 1000w psu and I remember always being worried went I went on "max" overclock benchmark run.
Great build! I use an Arctic cooler since they still make affordable 775-compatible heatsinks, they should be good enough to overclock the Core2 series.
Really nice rig mate ;) I hope your board and graphics cards won't go nuts in the long term, these Nvidia chipsets and generation of cards aren't the most reliable (being a collector it's one of the reason I don't really collect them as I refuse to pay absurd prices for unreliable hardware). Even ATI "equivalent" like the HD 3870x2 aren't reliable. I had one artefacting, think it was a ram issue. It was working perfectly months before I restarted the rig where the card was, but hey, that one was so hot even after changing the paste... and I used it in a CrossfireX (yes, with an X !!!) configuration with another HD 3870x2 lol
I really hope this stuff lasts because all of it runs pretty warm. At least I do have a replacement motherboard in case this one dies on me. I repasted everything so let's hope for the best.
I plan to mess around with Vista more in the future, but from my limited exposure to it it doesn't really seem that bad. Just Windows 7 with a rough launch and a few features missing.
Did a bit of research on the case you used, since you didn't know what model it was. It's a purple Cooler Master Centurion 5, originally released on October 7th 2005. Still pretty period correct!
Definitely a really cool build And it looks like You get pretty Hi benchmark Results And it looks like You're getting about the same score That I Get in 3-D mark 2001 Of course I do have the same processor But I have a single To gigabyte Card quadro Work station Video Card Yeah my systems overkill too But I would definitely recommend Getting some more fan That way everything stays nice and cool Anyways great build And great video
For me, period correct isn't so much about building a system with parts from a particular year, or even a particular month, it's about how much you'd subsequently upgrade the crap out of the system over time with progressively more recent parts (as money allows), that still works with the platform & OS you started with. So, for my primary XP build that I started in 2016, with an unused motherboard I originally brought brand new back in 2008, I ended up with something that runs cool & quiet, while still being highly compatible with both new(er) & old alike: Intel Core 2 Quad Q9650 @ 3.00GHz (Yorkfield) CPU Gigabyte EP35-DS3R (Rev. 2.1) motherboard 4x2GB G.Skill DDR2 1000 5-5-5-15 low profile memory 2GB EVGA GTX 750 Ti SC graphics (with optional extra backplate) Creative Labs Sound Blaster Audigy (SB0090) PCI sound (with MIDI/gameport rear backplate & EAX 4.0 XP drivers) 128GB & 256GB SanDisk X400 SATA OS SSDs 1TB & 2TB WD Black SATA Games/Data HDDs Dual Lite-On DVD Writer SATA optical drives (Set for Region 2 & 1 DVDs with PowerDVD 5.0 Deluxe on XP & VLC on 8.1) Sony 1.44MB 3.5" floppy disk drive Cooler Master Elite 370 ATX case Scythe Kaze Master KM01-BK VFD fan controller EVGA SuperNova 550G2 550W modular PSU BeQuiet! Shadow Rock LP 130W TDP CPU cooler (blowing down onto the motherboard, rather than across it) Anidees Halo 140mm front & 120mm rear blue LED case fans Windows XP Professional SP3 (32-bit) Windows 8.1 Pro (64-bit) (with Classic Shell for a proper Start menu).
i remember that time, i remember i had (msi) one 478 and 775 boards dont even lasting 3-4 years with damn celerons. My last Asus board lasted nearly 10 years.
Id look towards getting a 180 - 240 gb ssd for the os & some games, even used an intel 330 is more then enough & has the trim support needed via the intel ssd toolbox.
Half-Life 2 (along with some other early-mid 2000s Valve games) doesn't actually require Steam to work. You can copy the install folder for HL2 off of a modern computer, put it in XP and the game will work perfectly fine (assuming it has no issues running the more demanding, modern version of Source.) You can also find the original launch release of HL2 floating around online which will also work fine without Steam on XP.
I use a Dell XPS 720 as my XP machine and becuase I used the OEM CD to install XP I don't need to activate it. My CPU is a QX9650 and my GPU is even more overkill, it's a GTX 970. It also has 8GB of RAM but that's only because I use Windows 7 and 10 64bit on this system which is fun because they're always trying to destroy each other.
@@NTGTechnology It was my main computer for many years but these days a modern OS is too much for it. It'll run Windows 7 just fine but 10 is a bit of a struggle. You could say its my main XP computer.
You can use this tutorial to restore Windows Update, that's what I did and it works pretty well. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-vdIVMwV9MCk.html
Back in those days i ran the AMD Phenom II x2 Never like intel due to their high price tags.I am pretty sure the intel stuff was good but never really had the cash.I think all the intel stuff is just like apple products. Way to expensive and some times just end up being paper weights.
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He said he's going to build a PC with components from late 2006 and early 2007, but do you really think the i7 3770K was released back then? The Intel i7-3770K was released in April 2012 as part of the Ivy Bridge lineup. It definitely wasn’t around in the late 2006 to early 2007 period. Also, isn't the Core 2 Extreme a bit overkill for Windows XP? We're talking about a chip with 4 cores, not just some regular old ass Core 2 Duo.
