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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 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.
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!
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.
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.
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!
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.
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.
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.
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).
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.
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
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.
@@NTGTechnology Yeah, but too me in my mind I think period correct means hardware that was used at the time the OS was the latest or last commercially avaliable hardware before the next OS release. So hardware from 2001-2006 to maybe early 2007 is period correct for XP so the QX6700 is the fastest period correct configuration in all my honest opinion. I just wanted to hear ur take on the matter because everyone has their own views about what is period correct and what isn't.
@@NTGTechnology also, did you ever get the dredded sata corruption bug? It was common on the EVGA nforce 680i motherboards. I don't know if they fixed it in a later revision or BIOS update.
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.
Nice XP build, this video is underrated as hell.
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.
Fascinating. I had a lightscribe drive, which I thought was really cool. But I hadn't heard of LabelFlash
I don’t really know much about it, other than it was a competitor to LightScribe that wasn’t as successful.
@@NTGTechnology Interesting. The media is still available. Maybe they'll make a retro resurgence
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.
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.
It's also around the era of the capacitor plague
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.
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.
Used to play Minecraft for hours every day at like 5 FPS on my first laptop running XP.
@@NTGTechnology Gotta love Java...
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.
Lots of people kept XP well into 7's life, and vista was soo terrible
@@624static I still use Windows 7 on a AMD Ryzen 3700X
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.
lmao, to have even more power
@@Der_Radiotechniker Win 7 is now rubish
That case is a Cooler Master Centurion 5! I’ve got the same one, and it’s glorious.
It's not bad for the time. Wish it had better airflow but every case was like that at the time.
@@NTGTechnology True
Had a few of these. Decent inexpensive case.
Yeah, I'm a bit late to the game watching this, but props for using the Maken X music for ths.
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 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.
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!
God I was 5 when xp came out gess I loved playing a lot of my games on it
Wow this need more views
i realy like your decision and choose of the components. Its a raely good! i take for my build intel q6600, gtx260 , what you think about?
Just found your channel! My first decent card was a BFG 8800GT! They were a great little company!
I agree with you about hardware being interesting around this time but I loved Windows Vista. It ran great on my Athlon 64 with 1 GB of RAM.
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.
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.
15:06 yessir, it is Crysis
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!
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.
Best video yet
4:34 I don't think Windows XP supports 3 way sli on the 8800 series though. Correct me if I am wrong.
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.
@ 7:17 thats a CM Centurion series case. i had one w/o the window in my xp rig for school. good case.
_Hey the date code on that hard drive says 2011 bud_
Hello,
Nice project. I have a similar computer. A question: how did you get to run HL2 on Windows XP? Since steam doesn't support it anymore.
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.
@@NTGTechnology Thanks you very much.
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).
crt + e8600 + undervolted 1gb 750ti is all you need
15:04 "Yes it runs" XD
You should do windows Vista and windows 7 gaming pc builds
Great video
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.
I know the video is kind of old, use a Hyper 212 Plus cooler for that 775. You'll thank yourself.
Which monitor did you use means which company's monitor and what model
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
I recently moved the rig into an Antec 900. I'm much happier with the airflow now.
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.
Sounds like a great machine! I always like the look of those 720s as well. Do you use it as your main computer?
@@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.
my xp pc has i5-3570k at 4.5ghz, nvidia gtx 970 and 16gb ddr3
There are workarounds for a gtx 970.
Nice build. Would love to see how it handles the unoptimized (but fun) piece of shit that is Thief: Deadly Shadows.
Where did you get the windows update files from???
You can use this tutorial to restore Windows Update, that's what I did and it works pretty well.
ruclips.net/video/vdIVMwV9MCk/видео.html
@@NTGTechnology Thank you, will try it...
Would you say this hardware is period correct for Windows XP? Or is it more Windows Vista territory?
I'd say it's correct for both. XP had a lot of overlap into the Vista era due to people not adopting Vista.
@@NTGTechnology Yeah, but too me in my mind I think period correct means hardware that was used at the time the OS was the latest or last commercially avaliable hardware before the next OS release. So hardware from 2001-2006 to maybe early 2007 is period correct for XP so the QX6700 is the fastest period correct configuration in all my honest opinion. I just wanted to hear ur take on the matter because everyone has their own views about what is period correct and what isn't.
@@NTGTechnology also, did you ever get the dredded sata corruption bug? It was common on the EVGA nforce 680i motherboards. I don't know if they fixed it in a later revision or BIOS update.
@@ArtisticTrex54 I'm on the latest BIOS and I haven't noticed anything after 3 years.
@@NTGTechnology what advice would you give to avoid the potential SATA/RAID corruption bug? Do you recommend using RAID 0 with the issues in mind?
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.
So much FPS you don't know if it's showing your resolution or your frame rate.
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bro why core 2 duon core 2 duo is good for best win 2000 pc a core i7 3700k is best for win xp
He explains this in the first minute of the video. smh
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.
I'm gonna guess that you are a Sagittarius.
Most clickbait PC build ever. lol
You must use Windows XP x64 edition to use properly the potential of this configuration!!With 32 bit edition it is absurd!!
I can tell you that it's not a 4000 dollar build. It's more like 300
It would have cost $ 4000 to build in 2006.
too slow