I also have my dream XP PC completed. Running an I7-980X 4GHz with NH-D15 on MSI Eclipse SLi, 12Gb Corsair XMS3 2133MHz, Two Asus DCU2 GTX 570s, RM850W and 512 Crucial MX500. Man is that machine a beast. I know 12 threads and 12Gbs of ram for XP 32bit is absolutely overkill but I love X58 platform.

This is literally my dream machine , wow you know your stuff many. Cpu and GPU too stuff , nearly the pinnacle of what is possible on XP

im impressed you managed to get 3D mark 99 to work on xp , 2000 was the earliest i could ever get working long term on my xp system , core i5 2500K with Radeon hd 7850

My Windows XP and Windows 7 dual Boot System: HP Elite 8200 CMT I5 2500 8 GB DDR3 1333 GeForce GTX 750ti 2GB 256 GB SSD for Windows XP 512 SSD for Windows 7 64b Ultimate 1 TB SATA 7.2rpm for Games. DVD RW Creative Audigy ZS Runs fine and I can play all games 1996-2016 in High-Ultra High without problems.

My XP PC is multi-purpose so it doesn't end up gathering dust in a cupboard. Its an ITX system based on the Asus P8x77i-Deluxe, i7 3770K@4.9GHZ, Corsair H80i, The same MSI 980ti, 16GB Kingston HyperX Beast 2400, 512GB Samsung 850 Pro SSD and 500GB Seagate SSHD, 24x DVD writer and USB Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi Surround 5.1 Pro (v1 as that's the only one with XP drivers, the others work but no official drivers for EAXHD as I found with the v3 I originally bought for it), all in a coolermaster Elite 130. I Triple boot XP and XP64 along with Windows 11 and its smaller size and windows 11 means it doubles as a HTPC as well. I did originally go with an ATX built in my nice blue Xaser III, but its size meant I just kept it in the cupboard most of the time and would just not bother 9/10 given the weight and hassle of setting it up in a space I could use it. So this ITX version that has more everyday use means it always available should I need it. Also using my old Ideazon Merc keyboard as it only seems to work properly under XP, along with my Sidewinder Force Feedback 2. The USB audio makes the complete package with that full EAX support, with its remote adding to its functionality as a HTPC.

Wow! This video was exceptional quality. I love your work.

Great video! Good to see my old i7 getting used. I've been using a Thinkpad T60 with XP installed for some retro gaming.

I rather have the actual CD's in my hand and not have to worry if Steam is still in business a few years from now unless it's free...

Glad someone cobbled together this build knowing the max hardware that XP can work with. I have a similar build for XP using a 4690k and GTX 970. I've heard that the 1080 can somehow be coaxed into running on XP - that'd be a trip see. 👌🏻

Any chance you can upload the files to a google drive? I'm trying to build a win xp machine, using a i7 4770 + z87 itx mobo.

This is a Vista/7 pc in my opinion, but of course that's MY opinion and opinions are worth nothing when it comes to nostalgia and personal preference :D My perfect XP machine is standing right next to me; a Pentium 4 3.60 Ghz with 4GB of RAM (XP only sees 3.25GB of it but it's all stable and useable) a 1000W Enermax psu (overkill) and an NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 (4GB). The reason I'm using a single-core cpu is because some older games don't like running on a multi-core cpu. Yes, I know about setting cpu-affinity in task manager but I own a couple of games that even crash occasionally when running on just one cpu, the only solution being a badass single-core like the P4. But I see what you were aiming for in this video and you nailed it! Awesome video man! Never forget our beloved XP :D

Legendary intro. This video is going to be a joy to watch.

Great to see inkjet again!! If you’ve got two of these I’ll give you a game of Counterstrike

currently I have none XP machine...thinking about one.

Underrated

This would be a short video idea but I would be really curious to see how the browser Supermium runs on that system

Can't you actually use newer CPUs as long as you bundle drivers with the install? I remember overclocking coffeelake under windows xp at a convention competitively. The only problem would be stuff like usb controller incompatibility but you can always just get an old pcie card for USB and install that. And ps2 works too ofc.

I been thinking about doing like a Ryzen 3 1300X or something similar I have 10GB of DDR3 1600mhz sitting around already I have HDD’s I has a few PSU’s my ATI 9800 512mgb would need to be upgraded to like I dunno that new budgets card NVidia came out with the 1030 or w/e that would be great for XP retro gaming get a cheap 1080p 165hz monitor for Wally World be G2G for about $5-600max

My old PC did run XP and windows 7 dual boot, with only 1 GB RAM, Intel with only 2 cores, Nvidea GTX 550 Ti, still capable of running those games and skyrim.

I'm curious as to whether these machines are safe to hook up to the internet now that there is no official support for the OS? Or do you purely keep these systems offline?

You just forgot to add a Creative or Auzentech soundcard that does all the EAX versions to really make it an ultimate XP rig.

Hey Komodo, did you ever play on the Teeside university CS:S server?

I have a LG c9 OLED and want to connect it to play games 1440p at 120hz

You found drivers for 980Ti. I thought that GTX960 is the top gpu supported for XP.

Nice video! Wait when you make another ultimate Xp-build: motherboard LGA 2011 + i7-4960X + GTX Titan X 12 Gb

Thats my former rig's cpu. 4790k is a champ! I had the 970 tho. Lasted me from 2015-2022.

Windows xp has a 64bit kernel. Im honestly surprised that nobody is developing or supporting for it. Winxp64bit steam box

The second run for Doom 3 timedemo will give you the true framerate

Great Vid , man i miss Windows XP aka the Last Proper OS (Win7 comes second because of bloatware) btw is it possible to get your iso for Windows XP to use it as USB bootable ? Thanks in advance

Btw great content komodo

All good except you've got no Creative EAX audio. Where's the Soundblaster X-fi Titanium Fatality? FEAR with EAX is insanely good compared to vanilla!

What do you even do with Windows XP nowadays? since in 2012 Windows XP seemed amazing but now what to do with it?

Great! I have similar build for retro games (32 bit Windows XP/Vista/Seven installed) mobo: Asrock Z77 Extreme 3 CPU: i5-3570K @ 4.2 Ghz Cooler Master v8 CPU cooler RAM: Mushkin Enhanced Stealth 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3 2133 MTS [4GB Ramdisk for pagefiles) Sound: Creative Sound Blaster X-FI Xtreme Fidelity GPU: Gigabyte Xtreme Gaming GTX 980 TI (GV-N98TXTREME-6GD) SSD: 1TB (Intel 730 series) PSU: ARESGAME 750W (AGW750) 80+ Bronze I think GTX 980 TI is too much overkill, plus 32 bit OS can't handle 6 GB VRAM and shows only 4 gig, but its still nice to know that you have absolute maximum possible performance for given OS

Nice setup, i have a similar spec machine but with some changes: Mobo: Msi B85-G43 Gaming LGA1150 Cpu: Intel I7 4790S Gpu: Msi Geforce GTX 960 4GB GDDR5 Ram: G.Skill F3-14900CL9D-4GBXM 2GBX2 TOTAL 4GB RAM DDR3 1866mhz Storage: Crucial MX500 500GB 3D NAND SATA 2.5 Inch Internal SSD, up to 560 MB/s PSU: Thermaltake Toughpower GF2 ARGB 750W 80+ Gold 16.8 Case: I wrap everything up on a Fractal Design Meshify 2 Lite White TG 😅

Whats best wifi card for windows xp?

great build im running i7 3770 12 gb ram gpu gts 250 sadly for now psu 500watt real power moboard gigabyte z77 ds3h windows xp 32 and 64 bit on a msata ssd that i got for free 2tb hdd and a 480 gb ssd for windows 10 so im triplebooting with windows 10 it runs almost every win xp game i wanted to go with 4th gen but it was more expensive and drivers arent officially avavible(iknow i have to loook around and probably will find ) but i wanted ofical

I would love to connect to this to my LG C9 Oled TV, it runs in native 120hz at 1440p ! Input lag is super low, I played old school street fighter and UT99 with another PC on it, crazy low lag

1:40 ~ 2:55 Is this the vision of the T800?!

Would you try Grim dawn next time if necessary，it‘s a more morden game with huge vram needs

1800 FPS in Quake 3? That's still weak, I need at least 3000 FPS. 😀 I have E8600 (I tested even Q9550, but there is no benefit from 4 cores in such games) and GTX460 or GTX 275 for XP gaming, there is pretty much no point in using something newer, because those games from like 2010 can run on Win 10 without any problem on your modern computer.

phenom x4 9950 black edition, gigabyte ma790fx dq6, geforce 8800 gtx or geforce gtx 680, windows xp professional 32 bit, windows vista ultimate 64 bit

Overkill

Should be able to install windows 2000 on it with appropriate patches and all that good stuff

Mine is a multi-os rig. GTX 750 1gb factory oc'd, 8gb ddr3 1600, i5-3570, h77 mobo, SB X-Fi Titanium, all cooling is Noctua, LG blu-ray burner, bay drawer. XP sp3 "integral edition"I found on some website that has all the stuff already slipstreamed, and Ubuntu 20.04. The graphics card and gpu handle everything xp related, Ubuntu handles my online activity (my only Steam games are xp related or indi that I can't get on GOG).

Ah yes real XP gaming PC also needs classic theme for maximum performance. I used to do it on my crappy Windows XP PC just because I could save extra 2 MB of RAM for my (literally) on-board graphics chipset :).

My dream XP PC would be ONLY officially compatible/supported PC. Highest/fastest supported hardwares. Here it goes; (any comments?) CPU: Intel i7-3770K RAM: 2x2 GB DDR3 1600 Mhz GPU: Nvidia GeForce GTX 980 (officially supported! No hacks, mods. Driver version: 344.11 - Nvidia forgot to remove those gpu cards from that version)

Wow 980TI for a Windows XP build even thought using a modded driver. My Windows XP "retro" build CPU: AMD FX-8300 Mobo: Asrock N68C-GS FX GPU: MSI Geforce GTX 960 4GB RAM: 2x2gb Kingston DDR3 1600 Storage: WD 1tb and WD 640GB HDD (I did not use SSD since XP dont have native TRIM support) Case: Thermaltake Versa H15 Window PSU: FSP HYPER K 700W ODD: LG DVDRW With your specs, you can do dual boot to have a powerful Windows 7 "retro" PC.

I have config for windows xp , fx8350, ddr3 16gb see 3.6gb, gtx980ti.

You could have done an i7 4960x ?!?! Xp/2003 x64 Unofficially run Xp on a 13900K

Intel Haswell and Nvidia Maxwell on XP 🤨 Whut ? How ?

Hi, my xp system is a haswell i7 5960x 8 core 16 threads 20mb L3 cache, hyperthreading and 6 cores diasabled, the 2 cores are overvlocked to 4.6ghz. Quad channel ddr4 16gb 2800mhz ram. Asus gtx 980 ti with factory overclock of 19% out of the box. High end asus rampage v extreme motherboard. 2x 2tb samsung ssd's in raid 1 for storing and running games and a ssd for xp sp3. Sound blaster xfi extreme fatality professional for 5.1 sound and native eax. I could never afford this tech new, i got it all on ebay mint condition used.

Check your comment moderation section. Wrote a long reply but YT hid the comment.

Witcher 2 is more dmmanding than Crysis and run on WInXP

I'm running XP on an i7 3970x, 32gb Ram and a Titan Z (For SLI), if you are on the book of faces check out "Not Quite Retro Machines"

32bit windows ?

I Have a dream for building windows xp gaming pc. Here are the specifications: 1. Motherboard(MSI H97 Gaming 3) 2. CPU(Intel Core I7 4790K) 3. Memory(32GB Kingston Hyper X Fury (4×8GB) DDR3 1600MHz 4. GPU(Zotac GTX 980 TI AMP Extreme) 5. SATA SSD(Adata SU800 256GB)WinXP 6. NVME SSD(Adata XPG SX 8200 256 GB)Win10 6. HDD(WD Blue 4TB) 7. PSU(ASUS ROG Strix 850w 80+ Gold) 8. Combat Chassis(Vurrion Rattle) 9. OS(Windows XP Professional X64 Edition Service Pack 1+Windows 10 Professional X64) For the SSD, I will use use both of them because I want to dualboot windows xp and windows 10 on my gaming pc

To get the ultimate XP PC (much faster) you need to use the x64 version of XP. It was always sad to see people use 64bit processors and then installing the 32bit version of XP, and it's still sad, especially when people are trying to create an "ultimate XP machine" etc. They have no idea what they're missing, or missed. Many people's memories or impressions about XP being slow or bad are largely due to them having only ever used the 32bit version, despite them often having had 64bit processors (so it didn't have to be like that for them), and of course also because they didn't use it with an SSD (usually not even a 10k RPM Raptor/VelociRaptor HDD). I've been using the x64 version since early 2006 and haven't installed a 32bit XP on any computer since then other than some very old 32bit-limited laptops. The x64 version supports 128GB of RAM so even if one is using old DDR2 mobos from the Core2Duo/Quad era one can use the full 8GB they offer. By the way the last update for x64 XP was released in May 2019, five whole years after XP """support""" was "ended". By far the best (the fastest and most secure and most bloat-free) x64 release is the one called "Superior Windows XP x64 Edition (64 bit) revival 6 2009" which is a very cleverly tweaked version of x64 XP, quite unique, faster than even the standard x64 XP and a lot of nonsense removed. Looks a bit odd at first just after it's installed (the arrow and colors) but a few minutes of basic customizing fixes that. When installing any version of XP remember to pre-align the SSD to 4k before installing (easiest way is a via a Win7 install disc). Of course with x64 XP you can run all the Maxwell cards using the same method as for 32bit XP. Only downside to x64 XP is that on-board mobo "HD Audio" doesn't work so you need a soundcard. If you really want to go all the way and make the truly ultimate XP machine then boot x64 XP (Superior Edition of course) from an NVMe SSD from an x99 or similar era mobo, I think x299 boards work as well; any board with a "Legacy boot" mode in the bios works, although keep in mind some of the later boards' on-board ethernet won't work for XP (32bit or x64) so with x99 and later boards you likely need a dedicated ethernet card. And use whatever highest-end Xeon processor available for the board.

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Go fasters are you crazy I don't think that is any monitor that goes more than 300fps and event if the are I don't think that is possible to see that Mach fps eny Way

hmmmm.. officially there are no drivers for Windows XP for your motherboard

Dual up those CPUs and didnt they make the 980Ti SLi capable? Another Ultimate XP build thats about half what it could have been.

Please stop using stupid amounts of AA. No one should use over 4x

You didn't even say what parts were in the rig other than what year the parts were from. Really bad video.

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