Ultimate Windows XP Gaming PC Rebuild & Upgrades 

SO NOSTALGIC

That was a fun watch while working away on some mundane stuff. I too get greatly nostalgic about this era of PC hardware & gaming, and indeed even when we did that trip and built this thing originally. I have neglected my old systems for the past couple of years too, life has just gotten too busy. I would love to make more time for it.

Hello, Mr. Stavris; I have 2 CM Elite 330s, 1 is still in the box. That case is why I watched your video. IMO it is a very good case, extremely easy to cool & fairly study. The mesh front is excellent & you mod the drive cages or remove 'em. The only real issue is not much room for cable management. I may paint one of the front bezels, I think semi-gloss black would work. My own-built is in my first Elite case. The CPU is an AMD FX-6350, 16GB RAM, 2 SSDs, 1 for MX linux, 1 for win10, & 2 HDDs for storage. My ASUS AMD Radeon R7 250 died so I swapped in a R5 230 OEM. I used flat clear plastic packaging to block the side vents. Better air control gives better cooling. I have a CM Hyper 212 Evo CPU cooler. I replaced the cooler fan (it died) & added 1 in front, so 3 120mm fans. One intake, 1 exhaust, & 1 on the cooler. BTW, the rear slot covers can be replaced, hold them in position. Then close the latch on them, & you can solder the covers in place. On mine I can swap the side covers from side to side. You have 34 icons on your screen, & they always use resources. What I did in the old days, was go to Documents, & add a folder. Name it Shortcuts, right-click it & drag a shortcut to the folder to the Desktop. Then lasso all the icons on the desktop. Drag them into the Shortcuts folder. Now you've got a clean desktop that will save a few system resources. Have a GREAT day, Neighbor!

Nice Video Jack Stavris!

I have that same board in my computer I built in 2006. Gigabyte 965. Still have it and game with it. I used it as a daily computer until 2018. It then sat for a few years and I recently I wiped it and reinstalled window xp. Good computer for it’s day. Spent like $4000 building it then. Haha, kept watch and my computer is a similar master cooler also. So your theme is correct.

SSHDs make good XP drives, cheap for mass storage and has SSD caching without the TRIM worries. Been running a FireCuda in my XP build for 4 years now.

My 8800gtx just cooked 2 days ago. Fix, tear it down clean the paste and thermals and bake at 385 degrees for 10 min conventional oven. It runs better than it ever has.

i like the design of those old graphics cards so much. looks way better than todays monolithic slabs that need a private power station to run them. generally the windows xp era of gaming hardware is my favorite time period

Great to have a new video!

I have run win xp on a 770gtx. The highest xp does support is the 980gtx. As for ram xp 32bit does support 64gb ram with pae. Not sure if it does support 8 core 16thread cpus. But I know for a fact my q9550 is supported. And voodoo 2 does work on xp. Actually have a video in the works for a very overkill xp rig and more of a concept build :)

"this game does pre-date this graphics card by quite a few years"... NFS:MW debuted in November of 2005, meanwhile the 8800 GTX debuted in November of 2006, pretty much exactly 1 year apart. Maybe it just feels like the graphics card is several years newer because the 8800 GTX really was that far ahead of its time.

Ssd will be worth putting in for sure, some ssd's from 2012 - 2013 should have windows xp software too do trim still. I know the intel 330 60 gb i have supports trim on windows xp & should still outlive this pc for sure heh took me 7 years of daily use too get below 100% health, should be really cheap as well at this point depending on the size you buy, but even for windows xp I'd go 120 gb at minimum just for some extra space in case you reuse it for another build at some point. And too limit thermals a bit & help with heat I'd put rivatuner server statistics too use & set a 65 - 121 fps limit or similar depending on the game you run, newer ofc you should limit fps a bit closer too screen hz. Some old games won't react too the rivatuner fps limiter but it will help keep any gpu you put into this alive better without some games main menu's & loading screens running rampant with the fps in the thousands or 100's which was common during the mid 2000's. Lastly I'd consider finding a later 2009 graphics card with 1 gb vram or 512 mb like a HD 5750, hd 5770 1 gb, gtx 460 should have a 768 mb model. A gpu like the hd 5750 runs with a much lower tdp & is a bit less likely too die out of nowhere as well. Only thing missing is perhaps a cold cathode kit & a soundblaster soundcard like a soundblaster x-fi Fatal1ty or similar. That monitor could use an upgrade sourcing a viewsonic perhaps, usually used sony tubes. I'm still a bit dissapointed i didn't pick up the one i came across a few years ago, was a crystal clear picture on it after some very minimal adjustment at 2048x1536 max resolution & did 1600x1200 @ 85 hz too. You can install the drivers without geforce experience, just need too do custom installation rather then quick install.

That's a very nice and decent XP machine Mine is an Athlon 64 x2 6000+ ASUS motherboard (AM2) 4gb of ram 4x1gb 240gb SSD for the boot drive 320gb laptop hard drive for the file storage drive The only thing that I need to do in my XP rig is to get a better GPU than the Radeon HD5450 that it currently has

I Tried WINDOWS XP On virtualBox with GAMES on pinball ALSO minesweeper AND finally solitaire :)

this man is the goat

ALSO I PLAYED bully scholarship on WINDOWS XP

Great video love the Halo desktop wallpaper please can I ask where you downloaded it from.

My ultimate win xp pc has a xeon x5470 @ 4.5ghz on a asus striker 2 formula using modded bios to support lga 771 cpus with 4gb ddr2 1033 cl5 and 2x gtx 295 for quad gpu in a nzxt nemesis elite powered by a corsair rm-1000... it runs crysis.

Can people build windows xp machines with a Corsair carbide 200r? Or it has to have a different case?

Windows XP very sad since when I was a child I missend a few games also had, Windows XP and it went really Well end of support 😔

When will be a new video?

Great PC

Break out a ultimate dos pc

I’ve never liked the login screen too much either. Easy to disable?

why won't you get a e8600? I got it here for like 4$

did you re buy a Wii U?

PLEASE don't kill vintage graphic cards !,there not many of them left !

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