Windows XP High-End Gaming Computer 

"You dont need billions of polygons and raytracing to create something believeble and immersive. " Truer words has seldom been spoken, sir :) Nice video!

Lol at “when you get married you learn to use kitchen utensils as tools” so true. Great video as always.

My Windows XP setup is : Asus A8N32-SLI Deluxe , Athlon 4800+ X2 , Two 7900 GTX in SLI with 8GB DDR server memory . Still have many parts from that era new in box

Great computer for Windows XP but my era is MS-DOS - Windows 98. Thanks for this video anyway. In the past, I wanted to say that the Nvidia 960 is overkill, but it's like you read my mind and put the top 7900 in this build. Nice work, my friend!

I love the retro build and very nice job with the benchmarks, subscribed!

Your videos are very entertaining! Thanks for making this build!

Really you deserve much much more subs and views. Love your videos and nostalgic builds mate

Interesting as ever. There are a lot of similarities to my own XP build, but I figured I would highlight some differences. I use the same processor, but with DDR3 memory clocked at 1600MHz and the FSB at 400MHz. This allows the 8600 to run at a seady 4.0GHz and then I used the maximum officially sanctioned voltage for the CPU. I do use 8GB of RAM and then use the excess for a drive buffer. Finally I have a GTX 285. I will be looking at some of the games you used on my test system as I believe this will actually not have any compatibility issues but a lot more performance.

I remember getting 30 fps average with a E8400/GTX 7800 on retail Oblivion with 720p. Everything else was from a stock Dell VOSTRO 220. Slightly higher end components can really squeeze 15 fps out of certain games.

Long ago, I built an "ultimate" windows 98 system with KERNEL EX , which allowed for Nglide 3dFX emulation and other Windows XP software only to be run on windows 98. You should try that project. I was playing 3dFX games with Nglide on super high resolutions. it was glorious

You can easily use higher end GPUs. Windows XP driver available for up to Nvidia 9xx series GPUs for example. 4GB RAM is also supported by Windows XP so could run dual channel 2x2GB. Not sure why use that overkill cooler on a 65w processor which could be upgrade to quad core even an xeon or 771 processor with socket mod. Windows XP itself can run up till 1155 socket platform for even more performance options.

11:24 Jeremy Soule is in my mind without doubt the best video game composer ever. He made Guild Wars and TES what they are. Great build, totally agree with going for compatibility over ultimate speed. Set and forget is how a gaming machine should be.

Also got the E8600 but oc to 4.4ghz on a asus striker extreme, 4gb 1033mhz ddr2 running at 1200mhz cl5 and a 8800 gtx with win xp. Really like it.

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Cool build. there are many new aio coolers that works with socket 775 by the way.

I remember my gaming PC build in late 2006, running windows xp. Core2duo e6600, 4gb ram, abit aw9d-max, 8800GTX. LG n2200P crt monitor.

I'm going to build a dual boot XP/win7 machine with an E8600 also, plus a Radeon HD4890 and 4GB Mushkin DDR2 1066. I also got a 19" LG LCD that has a button for 4:3 1024x768 resolution with black bars on the sides, I think it's a nice compromise being able to switch from 1366x768 to 1024 when needed.

Very nice build !

Where did you get your games from on windows xp?

I bought 10x Pentiums E5800's (C2D) on fleebay. I've put them all on my ASRock 4CoreDual-Sata2, and 4 of them could run 4.5GHz with bsel mod for voltage and FSB. I think it's way better processor due to raw speed it can run at with x16 multiplayer (every motherboard can do 280-290MHz FSB), and 2MB of cache this Pentium has it's perfect for XP era. I have one E5800 clocked at 4.5GHz in setup with Abit Fatal1ty FP-IN9 SLi + 6GB of Geil DDR2 Black Dragon + 2x Gainward 9600GT (main Win XP rig). Two paired with my two ASRock 4CoreDual-SATA2 for those sweet AGP cards (one as backup), and one laying in socket of fully boxed Abit IP35 Pro, waiting for my future Crossfire build :).

That resolution in Oblivion was such an overkill. Most people in 2006 had 1024x786 monitors.

I’m running into issues with FEAR on my XP system too! The map gets all corrupted. Specs are Asus M3A32MVP Deluxe motherboard, Phenom II x4 965BE (overclock applied but it did it before I ever touched clocks) 8GB DDR2 800mhz (dual boots 7), 500gb spinning rust. I’ve tried a GeForce 8800gts, gts 250, 9600gt and the current main GPU is Radeon HD4870

I love watching some of these video's jsut to see if I can guess the parts. Teh rest is just a beautiful bonus. I'm glad I'm not the only notalgia head.

I'd have a Xeon E5450, low latency 2GB DDR2 800 (friend randomly gave me a kit in 2009 - and first used it in 2016), a Asus P5Q Deluxe and a PCX 5750 for XP gaming if the board hadn't become unstable with more than 1GB of RAM. It was never the same after overclocking my QX6850. Which was a shame as it allowed me to use any LGA775 Pentium 4, so I could have swapped the CPU if games gave me grief.

That cpu cooler is way overkill. You probably could use it passive. I have a E8400 running @ 3.6 Ghz with a simple intel cooler, (with a copper core tough). Great build tough.

Perfect

Top quality content.

Nice computer but my era is xp and 7 My retro pc build has hardware that i dreamt of back when i was young and its gonna take a long time for me to get it for example the pc that i recently bought that will shipped this week from second hand market has an lga 1155 something that i always wanted and its not oem and it needs a few upgrades like cpu ram gpu ssd and power supply anyways with that said Your pc deserves the title of ultimate core 2 windows xp gaming machine but you should try amd phenom ii x6 build and create the ultimate amd phenom windows xp machine

Fast C2D or C2Q are perfect Xp machines. My XP machine will be C2Q preferably Q6600, and if i can find HD3870 That was my build back in days after that i moved to Windows 7 and i7 2600k. Core2 Duo E8600 is a beast good cooler and it can be overclocked to insanity

I have asus g31 with intel e7500 and msi 9800 gt, running xp games even win7 (dx10) games like a beast 😃

will be nice of u add old case

do you use win xp pro x64 in dual boot or not? then 8 gib of ram do not make sense instead of dual channel...

Very nice build! I love this era. I've owned almost all of the components you mentioned here at some point! Even the Eizo FlexScan s2100 monitor! Love the E8600, I have one that overclocks to 4.5Ghz! Also have a 7900GTX but it's broken unfortunately. I still have my 7950GX2 which was my main GPU for ages until I finally upgraded to a GTX460 in 2010. My curent XP machines are as follows: Pentium 4 Extreme edition 3.4ghz XFX silent Nvidia 7950GT 2x2GB Corsair XMS2 1066mhz RAM X-fi Platinum Fatal1ty Champion Asus P5WD2 Premium 955X Motherboard Intel Q9650 XFX GTX285 2x2GB Corsair Dominator 1066mhz RAM X-Fi elite pro Asus Maximus II Formula Motherboard

nice buiild i use the x1900 xtx or x1950 xtx gddr4 as its the fastest dx9 card ever produced

16:46 CJ's "AaaAah!!!" LOOL

Never knew Slavoj Žižek is a passionate retro gamer!

i use for my build q6600 and gtx260, i try first 8800 gt but that one dont runs crysis quite quickly

Finally I know what is causing that texture bug in Quake 4, thanks for info. 😀 I have Q9550+GTX275 for top Win XP gaming, now I am testing GTX460 which still has drivers for XP. Some games from like 1999-2001 were already corrupt on P4 era computers and drivers, so it's wasting of time to trying to make it work on some top Win XP computer, you just need different computer for such games. I found out that Win 2000 has much better compatibility with late Win 9x games than XP, so I am using Win 2000 for games like AvP1, NFS5 etc...these games are really hard to make it work. I would definitely stay with HW from preUEFI era, later UEFI MBs already have a lot of problems with XP. P35 is pretty good chipset, I had MSI P35 Platinum Combo, unfortunately few ram slots were damaged and I finished it completely while trying to solder new slots. Now I have some ordinary cheap P43 chipset MB from Asus and it works totaly fine. I really don't recommend combination of socket 775 and DDR3 rams, there was a lot of problems with stability and you won't even notice any improvement in performance with DDR3, but if you really want DDR3, I recommend to find some old ones with no XMP profiles, it should have standard 1333 MHz, standard CL and standard voltage, NO XMP profiles, these parameters must be native, that's only way how to be sure it's gonna be stable with DDR3. I also have C2D E8600 (or 8500, I am not sure now) but some very late Win XP games already can benefit from 4 cores. When I overclock Q9550 to 3.3 GHz or more, it has the same single and dual thread performance as top dual core, so why not use quad core when I can.

"F.E.A.R. is going to be the most demanding game I'm gonna play on this system". Crysis looking sad in the corner: "Excuse me, sir?"

Hmmm, I think the issues that you've had in those games were related to the drivers. For my XP system I'm using a Radeon HD 6850 (more like a Windows Vista/7 card) and I've played Half Life 1, NFS MW, Doom 3 and no issues at all. I might try NFS U2 to see what happens. Another interesting thing, about what you've said at the beggining of the video, is related to Quake 4 and Doom 3. On a RX 580 Doom3 (the vanilla edition) worked perfectly, but Quake 4 (the Steam version) had to be adjusted from the INI files. Now, on a RX 6650XT Quake4 plays like sh@t. I will let you know in a few weeks/month if I also have issues with an overkill XP system, as I've just received an I5-4460 with which I also intend to pair a powerfull videocard. Until then, If you are kind enough, please write me a list of the games you had issues with. I might try them on the Radeon HD6850. On the other hand, with a Radeon 3850 Quake 3 works excelent, but Return to Castle Wolfenstein makes the videocard's driver to crash :). This system also uses Windows XP.

Thanks

I burst out laughing when I saw you're using kitchen tools to build your PC. I do the same to reach the GPU latch on my Core i7 LMAO 😂

here's my XP retro gaming machine : 4790K@4.8ghz, 4x4gb of ram, GTX 980TI with modded drivers, X-fi Titanium sound card for EAX 5.0. play every single XP era games in 4K full details + reshade if i want without breakin' a sweat ;)

I put together an AGP XP machine. Asrock AM2NF3-VSTA, Phenom II X4 955BE, 4GB DDR2-800, HD 3850 AGP & SSD. :)

I personally like to use old pc's for games that are no longer supported on modern hardware (Example: Prototype the game. Will only run on 4 core cpus). I have a pc specifically for those games.

Optiplex sff with a low end 2015 amd card fears this

I use a GTX 580 which is more than enough for almost all winXP games, minus the real late ones like prototype and web of shadows... they run just not as good as the older ones ( thats what win7 is for ) Crysis runs ok with a GTX 580 but better to play them on newer computers. :)

do you really need that ginormous radiator for a 65w cpu?

Wouldn't a gts450 be a better gpu?

Currently using a Core 2 Quad Q9650 @ 3.00GHz, with: EP35-DS3R (Rev 2.1) motherboard 8GB (4x2GB) G.Skill 1000MHz 5-5-5-15 DDR2 memory 2GB EVGA GTX 750 Ti SC PCI-e graphics (with optional extra metal backplate) Sound Blaster Audigy SB0090 PCI audio (with Game/MIDI PCI extension plate) SanDisk X400 128GB boot SSD for XP Pro 32-bit SanDisk X400 256GB boot SSD for 10 Pro 64-bit WD Black 1TB 7200rpm game HDD WD Black 2TB 7200rpm data HDD 2x Lite-On SATA optical drives (set to Regions 2 & 1 for DVDs) Sony 1.44MB 3.5" floppy drive Cooler Master Elite 370 ATX case Scythe Kaze Master KM01-BK VFD fan controller EVGA SuperNova 550 G2 PSU Be Quiet! Shadow Rock LP CPU cooler Anidees AI Halo Cosmic Blue 140mm (front) & 120mm (rear) LED fans Also using a Filco Majestouch 2 full size ISO keyboard with Cherry MX Black keyswitches and Filco doubleshot ABS UK ISO tall spherical keycaps, on PS/2, along with a Logitech Click! Optical mouse, a BenQ GW2470HL AMVA 24" full HD monitor on VGA, and Logitech X230 2.1 speakers.

Akchually flatron can handle 1024x768 at 117hz or even 119. I still keep such monitor in the wardrobe))

I like a lot your English accent.

Midnight Geek : I have my Windows XP last of the titans monster rig compiled out of : AMD FX 8350 (official chipset driver support for Win XP is still on the Gigabytes motherboards site) 32 GB DDR3 1600 MH/T Asus Strix GTX 980 4GB DirectCU (that was the last modern Nvidia GPU to have support for Windows XP officially) an SSD tweaked for Win XP

A gtx 265 is ok for most Windows XP games?

I actually built a windows xp ,,Overkill" pc, here are the components: Asus P5B Intel core 2 duo e8400 3ghz 2gb RAM DDR2 667mhz AMD Radeon HD 5770 1gb GDDR5 Thermaltake tr2-500 160gb SATA 7200rpm Hard Disk (In AHCI mode) A Floston PC case It works very fast, what I have to do is to install drivers and games, it will be fun.

Lol my Windows XP PC is: Intel i5 2500, GTX 960 2GB GDDR5, 8 GB DDR3 also for Windows 7 64b. 256 GB SSD for Windows XP and 480 SSD for Windows 7 and 1 TB SATA 7.2rpm for game's. Creative Audigy ZS and all games runs at high-Ultra high with FAA perfect. Btw the LG monitor is awesome.

cool

may i ask why you did not put an ssd????????

Why not just put the CPU cooler fan on the opposite side of the cooler, and pull the air through it?

Whats the most demanding game on WinXP ?

I used to have that motherboard. It was really good. But I gave it away a few years ago.

You have +1 Karma for AvP2 :))

haha GTA 3 is reason why i built "medium" XP computer with 512MB GPU 🤗 My XP beast is too fast (i7-870 + GTX960 4GB) i had like 2000 FPS in GTA 3 invisible menu and game not playable 😁 With E8400 + HD5450 512MB is GTA3 silky smooth and running without issues. 🥰

my e8400 4.1GHz had overkill gpu, 5870

Вот Англичане, взял крутую материнскую плату так в чём же проблема была купить на Aliexpress например Xeon X5450 и поставить 8 GB оперативной памяти, пусть даже самую обычную, но материнская плата позволит тебе разогнать частоты RAM. Можно было вместо древнего куска говна поставить ( Я про 7900 gtx) какую нибудь GTX 1050 ti? А, и ещё забыл, что можно было поставить самый дешевый SSD хотя бы на 240 GB. Но думаю ты до такого не догадался, ведь ты даже систему охлаждения процессора установил не верно. А ещё прикольно видеть твои удивления от производительности игр большинство которых были созданы во времена PGA478.

VA panels always were bad with motion and input lag.

Really similar setup to a PC I have in a modern system with LED fans. I’ve got an E8600 paired with an 8800 GT 512mb running Win XP.

I have the Same Prozessor in my main pc

Acum nu știu ce să zic nu am zis-o din răutate eu am spus exact cea ce am gândit eu fiindcă cunosc bine windows xp de ce este capabil Dar referitor la antivirus Avast eu îl folosesc chiar sunt mulțumit de el Și da cum spuneai și tu fiecare cu preferințele fiecăruia și gusturile lui

Should have tried Counter Strike and I.G.I too😃

this is Windows Vista High End PC

Dar poate rula Crysis?

I love your Russian accent ❤

It is not an high end computer. Just a low end - mid range computer (for its time) but eventually overkill for Win Xp gaming. Do not confuse overkill computer (for what you do with it) with high end computer. LE: Sorry, I commented without watching the whole video. You really made an high end PC after all (the second one), or something close to it.

But can it run crysis ?

Core2 quad +nvidia gt9800 would be better

I have 10 points.

win xp hai treacă meargă îl mai digeră noul format SATA Dacă stăm să ne gândim win xp era prieten bun la interfața IDE sau PATA Dar din opinia personală Windows xp greu suportă noile plăci video mai mari de 1 gb sau 2 gb 4 gb maxim greu le acceptă față altele Însă ce vreau să mai precizez Windows XP acceptă antivirusul de la Avast dacă vrei în cazul în care să stai pe net

Fain la tine ce să zic eu mă zbat să îmi fac o carcasă custom făcută în Timișoara pentru o placă de Asus P4P800 SE Mă zbat să îmi fac o carcasă făcută custom full atx dar mai lungă Și să îți explic si de ce vreau să așa 1. Am luat două Iomega zip drive interfață IDE 2. Am luat placa de baza menționată mai sus care a fost forțată în Windows 98 un custom firmware de BIOS să recunoască 4 gb de ram 3 carcasa despre care am să îți spun acum mă costă 5000 de lei făcută și doar în Timișoara am găsit o firmă specializată care face carcase pc custom Asta îmi nenorocește timpul că aștept sa îmi vină să pot să o instalez în carcasa nouă făcută exact după specificațiile mele cu tot cu shield creat Sursa de alimentare greu se găsește abia am găsit sursă de alimentare care să pot masca firele să nu se vadă Ventilatoare îi voi instala de 120 mm conectate în 12 și acelea firele vor fii mascate

Thank you for tis video! 1. Why didn't you just put the Geforce 7900 GTX in your Sandy Bridge system and call it a day? It would probably have solved your graphics problems. 2. If you want to change the resolution in Dungeon Siege to something higher, just edit the file "My Documents\Dugeon Siege\DungeonSiege.ini".

Însă pentru Windows XP cel mai recomandat browser este cel de la Mozilla versiunea veche

this is great but turing an old $25 dollor office machine into a retro gamer is fun to. just add q9550 cpu 4 gig of ram 500 gig hdd and any old video card install with a dell ome xp disk and game away

But Doom 3 Resurrection of Evil had gravity gun. Ionized Plasma Levitator.

Case is shit. Front panel is solid, so coolers after it do nothing.

way too much work i7 2700 in an old got i got a dell 990 put a 10.00 500 gig drive and r5 dell amd video card put 4 gig of ram and loaded all old games from 98 to 2010 all my fs flight sims from 98 the fsx and battefield games i spent all of 40 bucks