The nvidia quatro card connector is for a special cable that splits it into 2 DVI ports. Dell used these back in the day. I have a ATI card that has that same connector and even the cable that breaks it out into 2 DVI connectors laying around somewhere in my retro shit.
Yup, I have a few of that exact same card and few of the those "splitter" cables in my pile of retro crap somewhere too. They existed to SFF machines a dual screen setup. In an ancient time when having 2 flat screens was still more of a luxury than the norm. Beyond that, those cards are garbage lol
I am shocked how under subscribed this channel is. Keep going bro!! Love your musical taste, and your editing is so fucking good. Binge watch worthy. Looking forward for you future uploads!
This pretty much was a tiny channel that noone knew until he dropped the 56k in 2023 video, which almost hit 200k views as of now. The quality, however, speaks for itself and I can easily see the channel grow from now on.
Seeing you play Counter-Strike on Windows XP just hit me straight in the balls with nostalgia.... made me really sad actually. Nostalgia is so bittersweet because it's amazing to see how far we've come thus far in our lifetime but you also have this pit in your stomach missing those days where we got to see the BIRTH of the computers, the internet, and video games and everything was groundbreaking and innovative. I remember feeling euphoria and genuine JOY back then... and now it's very hard to feel that. We've hit a peak now where everything is either an improvement on what we already had or incremental updates. I started playing Counter-Strike in the early Beta versions before it became a retail game when it was still just a Half-life mod. For me personally, I still played it after retail and the release of The Orange Box... but quit the whole scene when CS:GO came out. Which is crazy because I used to be HEAVILY into it and my CS clan even placed 16th place in the CPL tournament in Texas back in the day. I literally had times where I didn't sleep for 2 days straight practicing with my friends all night. One I knew in real life and the rest were friends I only knew online. I'd stay up all night, go to school, come home and play again and not sleep again. I would start hallucinating I was so tired It was so unhealthy but some of the best memories I have.
Nostalgia? nothing nostalgic about playing CS2 nowadays with Steam ruining CSGO with this update. Full blown aimbots, wallhacks and script kiddies in the whole game.
I got one of these from e-waste bin at work. Glad to see someone else with one. They are fantastic. Mine will eventually be set up for FireWire Audio and old DAW/Music software. Something a little different than the retro gaming stuff.
Great tool that I didn't know yet - always used WSUS Offline Update. With that you can download all the updates though a portable installer and have them ready on a USB drive for all the Windows versions of your choice. Just run the installer on the machine that needs the updates and it will go though the whole process automagically, including the reboots. Always loved that thing even while having an internet connection, simply because I didn't have to rely on the utterly slow Microsoft servers that would take ages to serve me a bunch of updates and wait for all the hundreds of thousands of update search processes in a row anymore.
@@adamtajhassam9188 I just put an SSD in my XP system few days ago. It's the first time I put a drive in this one that's faster than the 15'000 RPM SCSI-wide Seagate HD that was put in it back in 2010. SCSI-UW was indeed way ahead of its time!
@@TempoLOOKING Good old SandForce 2 thing like a Corsair Force GT! Still have some of those rocking, they were basically the first real good SSD and I had a 240GB model in 2013 after my WD Raptor X 150GB died.
Enable PAE if you ever want to goof around with more than 4GB in Windows 32 bit. It certainly will see upwards of 32GB of ram, tested on a Dell Precision T7400!
Nice build. I myself recently found an old HP 8200 Elite PC from 2005. Unfortunately, the motherboard long since succumbed to capacitor plague. For a replacement. I ordered a cheap 1155 LGA motherboard, 4GB DDR3 ram, and for the CPU, an i5-2400. Paired it with a spare low profile MSI Radeon HD 5450 1 GB. Threw in a 240 GB SSD. Made a few adjustments in the bios and now I'm the proud owner of an XP retro PC gaming rig. I completed my setup with a vintage 2004 Compaq 4:3 monitor in very good condition from a nearby Goodwill. When building an XP capable machine. I'd strongly recommend purchasing components manufactured in late 2007 going into 2008. Right at the tail end of the capacitor plague of the 2000s.
Just throw in an Audigy or X-Fi and you'll be in EAX heaven for ears. Also, maybe, a boot SSD. ;-) Using an 8GB GDDR2 1000 Core 2 Quad Q9650 Gigabyte EP35-DS3R 2GB GDDR5 EVGA GTX 750 Ti SB Audigy 0090 PCI based system triple booting between XP Pro 32-bit, 8.1 Pro 64-bit (with Classic Shell Start Menu) & Zorin OS 17.1 retro rebuild myself. (Also with SanDisk X400 128GB & 256GB boot SSDs, 1TB & 2TB WD Black Storage HDDs).
I run XP on a Quad Core 6600 with a GT 610 and 4GB Ram, it runs Crysis perfectly, and Black and White has never looked so good.....old HP SFF machine, with a tiny 270w power supply in it.
Windows XP can address upto 96Gb of RAM with PAE enabled. Each running instance can only use upto 4Gb of RAM but you can have many apps running each using upto 4Gb each. Back in 2006 this was the budget version of the cheap option that Dell offered.
Nice Tux icon. Seems like a great build. Have you BSEL modded the CPU? Its a slight overclock. You just need to tape over a couple contacts on the bottom side of the CPU. I tried to do the BSEL mod on a xps 410 I think. Dell has some self test or either that I did it wrong. It would not post. So your system might not post either. Worth a try tho.
You mentioning fraps brought me back. I got into PC gaming in 2009ish when vista was the main OS. I downgraded the laptop I had at the time to XP 64 bit and it was fantastic. Red orchestra, killing floor, all the source games I played ran so much better. Smoke particle affects though where a fps killer though for that laptop. Like the smoke grenades in day of defeat or smoke effects in gmod.
that is really cool, i actually have gotten my hands on an old xp machine too, and have made a video about it on my channel. it hasa pentium 4, 1 gb ram, 150gb HHD, and no gpu. gta 3 runs fine, but i do not have more games for this system, but im enjoying gta3 while watching this video
Happens so, that I tend to use my Win XP machine more than my main rig. Probably because I am 52 years old and my favorite games are from this era. And I seriously dislike emulators.
Hope you enjoyed seeing your CS skins on Windows XP, can't do that anymore after Valve shut down the CS:GO inventory servers recently. :( Bring back CS:GO Valve...
"Hmm, I don't think my keyboard is working" :*Punches keyboard with slight increasing rage each time*... "Just a hunch." Fucking hilarious and entirely relatable. 4:26
what I always do for used or customers pc is .. set mainboard to default 1st .. save & restart .. then check necessary peripherals is on & detected 1 by 1 .. save & restart ..
Dude, at least play games that you can only play (easily) on a system that old. There's zero point in updates either if you don't intend to use the Internet. And just install from a SP3 made install disc to start with anyway.
I had that exact Dell system but with a Xeon Dual Core that was hyperthreaded. PSU died and it was a pain sourcing a replacement. The one I found from a seller was broken and they said no refunds. Sat unpowered for years until I finally found one in a salvage system and I took the RAM from it to. Took out the Quadro, threw in a Radeon card and I was living.
I must say , watched the intro and I’m like it’s another boring ass retro pc thing , soon as you said this fucking pos video card and began cussing. Well I would have to say I instantly liked the video! This is my kind of content 🙃
That 0x0000007b error was because the Sata mode in the bios was set to Raid/AHCI. if you switched it back to IDE mode, it would have booted properly. tho reinstalling with raid/AHCI was a better choice anyway :).
suggestion: invest in a ps/2 keyboard and mouse if you intend to work on more retro machines. and the weird text you see during installation is because the 4:3 video output is being stretched wide on your monitor. its usually a setting you can do on your monitor. if not, a cheap tiny period accurate 4:3 screen can be nice for when you want to try out retro games.
@@Ionic1k the fun is in playing the games, man. Unless, of course, you want to tinker with old hardware. I personally don't want to play with old hardware, unless we're talking something that has special place in computing history, like the BBC Micro or Amiga 500, just to name a few.
What did you do? That is a multi-monitor card you threw back there. Dude google can be your friend sometimes you know? I hope you didn't damaged it you can even get a 2 x VGA adapter for that port.
Awesome video! I got a 2007 Dimension a few weeks ago with an Athlon 3600+ and a HD 8470 in it and it fucking rocks. I can play pretty much anything at nice settings to my 17" CRT. It's such a fun setup and makes gaming fun for me with how straightforward and iconic the library is from that era.
dude yes! i had this same PC i got from a friend for like $100 in 2012. i need a budget gaming computer and it definitely served its purpose. i was still running xp back then too!
my dad had a computer from dell from around 2000 around 7 years ago and it ran windows xp and looked like that. when i got into primary school i was surprised by window 7 (it was 2015 before windows 10)
I have 3 of the 2007 model of this one working together as a beowulf cluster. 16gb of ram each, duel quadcore xeon processors in each and an old nividia quantum.
It boggles my mind how this only costs you 46 bucks. Where I'm from, I got a 500GB for a bit more, and it was used. A system like this here would cost thrice as much, plus shipping. :(
Get an old copy of starwars republic commando running on xp, that was peak gaming. If you dug through the games files they even gave you unreal editor buried in it to make your own maps and mods with. ❤ my childhood.
AAAAH I got a P 390 in like 2014? It was a C2D 2.4GHz + 4GB (4x 1GB). No HDD but other than that it was fairly in tact. It was an upgrade for me back in the day, I had athlon x2's and a phenom laying around. I knew my dad had a dead system with a Q6600 so I took that CPU and upgraded my PC. Sucks the 390 didn't support higher FSB since those could be "upgraded" with a pin mod/tape. I swapped PSU and threw in a 7870 eventually and then upgraded that to a gtx660. I don't think I managed to get to 8GB of ram on that thing due to money, but I'm pretty sure I did hit 6GB of mixed ram. Good times. It was my first system with an SSD too! 120GB! hah, that was always full. I'm currently still a bit behind but way ahead. Running a 8700K + 3080ti in my main w/ 32GB. I have a 7900X + 64GB (microcenter combo) built, but it's at my dads house and I live 24 hours away (on plane) currently so I have to see how I can get that here.
The first computer i ever used was running on windows xp, i always wanted something like this buy i was a child, watching you actually doing it its awesome man, great video
i used windows xp up intill 2018 then used windows 7 for the longest time, and just last month switched to windows 10. but will be swithing to mac tomrowo with an egpu running windows 7 in a vm with gpu passthrough.
I have been tempted by Windows XP PCs at Value Village (which is the chain that became Savers but they still use the old branding here in Canada) since I have several CD-ROM/DVD-ROM games and applications that simply won't work past Windows XP but I'm always worried that any Value Village computer will be ridden by viruses that have disabled normal functioning in Windows and which I'd have to connect a laptop to disinfect.
How cool, I have a T3400 and an Optiplex 785 I've been wanting to install BF2 on, but the windows updates were an issue for me. I'm gonna try that and see what I get. Was thinking of running XP on the 785 and Windows 7 on the T3400. Something fun about playing with hardware from my childhood before all the RGB and stuff we have now days. Also something fun about running an old ass Windows XP PC maxed out on ram on a SSD and an "old" graphics card
Had a good gaming Computer years ago,When Windows XP Media Center Edition first got released,That was the best Windows XP I also had as well,Never crashed at all,It was also quick at loading up the internet,Quick for loading up games as well,Also used to do a lot of Computer building then as well
Imagine getting WinXP in 2012 and using it until 2019. Wow! And I thought using a CRT until 2014 was weird, which I did. Never was able to justify paying hundreds of units of money for a worse image just to get wide screen and a slightly higher res, which is why I held onto my iiyama 22" for so long. Eventually, the electricity bill was the main deciding factor besides the thing showing that it has been aging for a while with the image quality slightly degrading over time. That CRT's wattage was all the way through the roof given its size. BTW you could also have run a repair install to get that preinstalled XP up and running again. That routine was pretty darn solid back in XP already.
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Windows XP >> Windows 11
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Windows 7 Is Where It's At.
*Windows 10.1
@@lilsoonerfaninmo*Symbian OS
@@EliteSpectreif I had a list of best windows versions it would go like this
7
XP
8.1
10
Vista
8
11
The nvidia quatro card connector is for a special cable that splits it into 2 DVI ports. Dell used these back in the day. I have a ATI card that has that same connector and even the cable that breaks it out into 2 DVI connectors laying around somewhere in my retro shit.
Yep old DMS 59
It's a Molex video connector. Same company that makes the Molex power connector
You can also get a cable that breaks out into dual VGA
Yup, I have a few of that exact same card and few of the those "splitter" cables in my pile of retro crap somewhere too.
They existed to SFF machines a dual screen setup. In an ancient time when having 2 flat screens was still more of a luxury than the norm. Beyond that, those cards are garbage lol
I am shocked how under subscribed this channel is. Keep going bro!! Love your musical taste, and your editing is so fucking good. Binge watch worthy. Looking forward for you future uploads!
This pretty much was a tiny channel that noone knew until he dropped the 56k in 2023 video, which almost hit 200k views as of now. The quality, however, speaks for itself and I can easily see the channel grow from now on.
fr the music is so good, just great overall
shut up weeb
Is that astolfo in you desk? Man of culture
Seeing you play Counter-Strike on Windows XP just hit me straight in the balls with nostalgia.... made me really sad actually. Nostalgia is so bittersweet because it's amazing to see how far we've come thus far in our lifetime but you also have this pit in your stomach missing those days where we got to see the BIRTH of the computers, the internet, and video games and everything was groundbreaking and innovative. I remember feeling euphoria and genuine JOY back then... and now it's very hard to feel that. We've hit a peak now where everything is either an improvement on what we already had or incremental updates.
I started playing Counter-Strike in the early Beta versions before it became a retail game when it was still just a Half-life mod. For me personally, I still played it after retail and the release of The Orange Box... but quit the whole scene when CS:GO came out. Which is crazy because I used to be HEAVILY into it and my CS clan even placed 16th place in the CPL tournament in Texas back in the day. I literally had times where I didn't sleep for 2 days straight practicing with my friends all night. One I knew in real life and the rest were friends I only knew online.
I'd stay up all night, go to school, come home and play again and not sleep again. I would start hallucinating I was so tired It was so unhealthy but some of the best memories I have.
nostalgia, muhahahaha,
Contertrike Dejavu, why on Xp ?
Why not install Windows 10 x64
bro i can feel you, ive been throught the same. you should try the current game once.
Nostalgia? nothing nostalgic about playing CS2 nowadays with Steam ruining CSGO with this update. Full blown aimbots, wallhacks and script kiddies in the whole game.
What was the name of your CPL team?
you're that RUclipsr i longed to find. good contents 10/10
Astolfo in the background really rounds off the whole video
You actually lowered your gaming performance by replacing the higher clocked Intel Core 2 Duo E6700 with the Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600.
I got one of these from e-waste bin at work. Glad to see someone else with one. They are fantastic. Mine will eventually be set up for FireWire Audio and old DAW/Music software. Something a little different than the retro gaming stuff.
Legacy Update is a wonder tool to have for older systems. I too was an avid user of NT4 and XP. Still have my original NT4 Workstation CD.
Great tool that I didn't know yet - always used WSUS Offline Update. With that you can download all the updates though a portable installer and have them ready on a USB drive for all the Windows versions of your choice. Just run the installer on the machine that needs the updates and it will go though the whole process automagically, including the reboots. Always loved that thing even while having an internet connection, simply because I didn't have to rely on the utterly slow Microsoft servers that would take ages to serve me a bunch of updates and wait for all the hundreds of thousands of update search processes in a row anymore.
hoping he puts a ssd instead w support instead of a HDD lol someday....
@@adamtajhassam9188 I just put an SSD in my XP system few days ago. It's the first time I put a drive in this one that's faster than the 15'000 RPM SCSI-wide Seagate HD that was put in it back in 2010. SCSI-UW was indeed way ahead of its time!
should have played the doom 3 on that badboy.. missed opportunity, but still gotta love XP what a legendary os.
Recommendation : Try to build the fastest most supported XP PC (i7 4th gen, nvidia 900 series)
Keep it official support btw
was the plan for another video.
With a SSD😊
@@TempoLOOKING Good old SandForce 2 thing like a Corsair Force GT! Still have some of those rocking, they were basically the first real good SSD and I had a 240GB model in 2013 after my WD Raptor X 150GB died.
This was really cool! I love retro computing
i would like to show appreciation for the astolfo figure in the background
Enable PAE if you ever want to goof around with more than 4GB in Windows 32 bit. It certainly will see upwards of 32GB of ram, tested on a Dell Precision T7400!
Nice build.
I myself recently found an old HP 8200 Elite PC from 2005.
Unfortunately, the motherboard long since succumbed to capacitor plague.
For a replacement. I ordered a cheap 1155 LGA motherboard, 4GB DDR3 ram, and for the CPU, an i5-2400.
Paired it with a spare low profile MSI Radeon HD 5450 1 GB. Threw in a 240 GB SSD.
Made a few adjustments in the bios and now I'm the proud owner of an XP retro PC gaming rig.
I completed my setup with a vintage 2004 Compaq 4:3 monitor in very good condition from a nearby Goodwill.
When building an XP capable machine. I'd strongly recommend purchasing components manufactured in late 2007 going into 2008.
Right at the tail end of the capacitor plague of the 2000s.
I would have kept the Core 2 Exteme 6800 in there - faster in WinXP games and easier to cool. Cool build!
0:38 golden. smashed the like button right after
True fastest officially:
I7 3770k
GTX960
4GB DDR3 (fastest possible ram)
SSD(Fastest ssd possible)
Just throw in an Audigy or X-Fi and you'll be in EAX heaven for ears. Also, maybe, a boot SSD. ;-)
Using an 8GB GDDR2 1000 Core 2 Quad Q9650 Gigabyte EP35-DS3R 2GB GDDR5 EVGA GTX 750 Ti SB Audigy 0090 PCI based system triple booting between XP Pro 32-bit, 8.1 Pro 64-bit (with Classic Shell Start Menu) & Zorin OS 17.1 retro rebuild myself. (Also with SanDisk X400 128GB & 256GB boot SSDs, 1TB & 2TB WD Black Storage HDDs).
Good choice getting the Q6600, that is the minimum CPU requirement for GTA V
I run XP on a Quad Core 6600 with a GT 610 and 4GB Ram, it runs Crysis perfectly, and Black and White has never looked so good.....old HP SFF machine, with a tiny 270w power supply in it.
my favourite thing on XP is. "You have selected Microsoft Sam as your computers default voice"
Windows XP can address upto 96Gb of RAM with PAE enabled.
Each running instance can only use upto 4Gb of RAM but you can have many apps running each using upto 4Gb each.
Back in 2006 this was the budget version of the cheap option that Dell offered.
You'll be able to get mega FPS on Far Cry with that rig. Easily well over 500 FPS at ultra settings.
Updating Windows XP online is crazy stupid. Guys, don't do such thing!
Nice Tux icon. Seems like a great build. Have you BSEL modded the CPU? Its a slight overclock. You just need to tape over a couple contacts on the bottom side of the CPU. I tried to do the BSEL mod on a xps 410 I think. Dell has some self test or either that I did it wrong. It would not post. So your system might not post either. Worth a try tho.
You mentioning fraps brought me back. I got into PC gaming in 2009ish when vista was the main OS. I downgraded the laptop I had at the time to XP 64 bit and it was fantastic. Red orchestra, killing floor, all the source games I played ran so much better. Smoke particle affects though where a fps killer though for that laptop. Like the smoke grenades in day of defeat or smoke effects in gmod.
> _I didn't upgrade to Windows XP until 2012, which is super late in its lifetime._
You what?
....... you just skipped windows vista and 7 entirely???
that is really cool, i actually have gotten my hands on an old xp machine too, and have made a video about it on my channel. it hasa pentium 4, 1 gb ram, 150gb HHD, and no gpu. gta 3 runs fine, but i do not have more games for this system, but im enjoying gta3 while watching this video
Happens so, that I tend to use my Win XP machine more than my main rig. Probably because I am 52 years old and my favorite games are from this era. And I seriously dislike emulators.
Hope you enjoyed seeing your CS skins on Windows XP, can't do that anymore after Valve shut down the CS:GO inventory servers recently. :( Bring back CS:GO Valve...
"Hmm, I don't think my keyboard is working" :*Punches keyboard with slight increasing rage each time*... "Just a hunch."
Fucking hilarious and entirely relatable. 4:26
what I always do for used or customers pc is .. set mainboard to default 1st .. save & restart .. then check necessary peripherals is on & detected 1 by 1 .. save & restart ..
The Precision I had was the a T5500 with Dual Xeons and a Nvidia Quadro 5000 card.
Dude, at least play games that you can only play (easily) on a system that old. There's zero point in updates either if you don't intend to use the Internet. And just install from a SP3 made install disc to start with anyway.
If you want to change the resolution of battlefront you should be able to edit a txt in the install folder
ooh please i have a dell 990 with a i7 2600 4 gig of ram i run all my old games from win 98 and all my fs sims
Now this PC can play Half-Life 2 at 40fps instead of 15🥶🥶🥶
Only subbed cause of the Astolfo figure
I had that exact Dell system but with a Xeon Dual Core that was hyperthreaded. PSU died and it was a pain sourcing a replacement. The one I found from a seller was broken and they said no refunds. Sat unpowered for years until I finally found one in a salvage system and I took the RAM from it to. Took out the Quadro, threw in a Radeon card and I was living.
I must say , watched the intro and I’m like it’s another boring ass retro pc thing , soon as you said this fucking pos video card and began cussing. Well I would have to say I instantly liked the video! This is my kind of content 🙃
damn, that pc could pull csgo off with 40fps and over while I'm now struggling to hit competitive fps on cs2 shit
i have the newer model (Dell precision T3500) that has 24gb ddr3 ecc, Xeon W3530 and 500gb ssd + 2tb wd gold
Could a GTX 750 fit in there?
how does my desktop how worse specs then your win xp gameing machine
im so jealous of your game collection. I wish i could do this all day.
That 0x0000007b error was because the Sata mode in the bios was set to Raid/AHCI. if you switched it back to IDE mode, it would have booted properly. tho reinstalling with raid/AHCI was a better choice anyway :).
That port splits to 2x dvi d ports (digital only.
Special spliter
Still better than my crappy laptop
im not allowed to watch your channel anymore because you swearing too much
Amazing figure
suggestion: invest in a ps/2 keyboard and mouse if you intend to work on more retro machines. and the weird text you see during installation is because the 4:3 video output is being stretched wide on your monitor. its usually a setting you can do on your monitor. if not, a cheap tiny period accurate 4:3 screen can be nice for when you want to try out retro games.
you used win xp for THAT LONG JESUS
I miss windows XP it was around for a while before they decided to move on.
So dudes computer says 2:00 AM and he is up making us some FIRE XP content... You sir have earned a sub
i want to see windows 7 or vista end game on this pc...
too bad you not on ohio thinks its called dms 59 or somth9ing i
have that adapter with t vga ports
Weird you didn't mention LGR. Why would you?
for half life 2, you can use the orange box to run hl2 without steam
me watching this using this pc upto 2021
What monitor is that? The black level is on oled tier.
I hate you & old computers so I liked the video 😊
This thing is still powerful than my pc 😅
I love this content!
i am running xp now on a pc from 2012 the 64 bit edition and its really nice. I use mini chrome and mypal 68 for web browsing.
one hell of a gpu intro... the way i died 💀
i grew up with windows XP, vista and wins7
It actually looks really beefy
playing halo ce on xp was the best
Yeah i spotted that vsauce theme
These days I'd just get a Ryzen APU system and use Linux + Proton to play Windows XP games.
But where's the fun in that? I love old hardware
@@Ionic1k the fun is in playing the games, man. Unless, of course, you want to tinker with old hardware. I personally don't want to play with old hardware, unless we're talking something that has special place in computing history, like the BBC Micro or Amiga 500, just to name a few.
❤ #awesome
core 2 quads and duos are 64 bit
Man, I need to go tech thrifting again
Nice stuff.
What did you do? That is a multi-monitor card you threw back there. Dude google can be your friend sometimes you know? I hope you didn't damaged it you can even get a 2 x VGA adapter for that port.
why call me out man ?
Heĺo smokers.
gimme that
nice figma
Awesome video! I got a 2007 Dimension a few weeks ago with an Athlon 3600+ and a HD 8470 in it and it fucking rocks. I can play pretty much anything at nice settings to my 17" CRT. It's such a fun setup and makes gaming fun for me with how straightforward and iconic the library is from that era.
dude yes! i had this same PC i got from a friend for like $100 in 2012. i need a budget gaming computer and it definitely served its purpose. i was still running xp back then too!
my dad had a computer from dell from around 2000 around 7 years ago and it ran windows xp and looked like that. when i got into primary school i was surprised by window 7 (it was 2015 before windows 10)
I have 3 of the 2007 model of this one working together as a beowulf cluster. 16gb of ram each, duel quadcore xeon processors in each and an old nividia quantum.
It boggles my mind how this only costs you 46 bucks. Where I'm from, I got a 500GB for a bit more, and it was used. A system like this here would cost thrice as much, plus shipping. :(
Get an old copy of starwars republic commando running on xp, that was peak gaming. If you dug through the games files they even gave you unreal editor buried in it to make your own maps and mods with. ❤ my childhood.
AAAAH
I got a P 390 in like 2014? It was a C2D 2.4GHz + 4GB (4x 1GB). No HDD but other than that it was fairly in tact.
It was an upgrade for me back in the day, I had athlon x2's and a phenom laying around.
I knew my dad had a dead system with a Q6600 so I took that CPU and upgraded my PC. Sucks the 390 didn't support higher FSB since those could be "upgraded" with a pin mod/tape. I swapped PSU and threw in a 7870 eventually and then upgraded that to a gtx660. I don't think I managed to get to 8GB of ram on that thing due to money, but I'm pretty sure I did hit 6GB of mixed ram. Good times.
It was my first system with an SSD too! 120GB! hah, that was always full.
I'm currently still a bit behind but way ahead. Running a 8700K + 3080ti in my main w/ 32GB. I have a 7900X + 64GB (microcenter combo) built, but it's at my dads house and I live 24 hours away (on plane) currently so I have to see how I can get that here.
My Windows XP Time: 2003 - 2009. RIP.
The first computer i ever used was running on windows xp, i always wanted something like this buy i was a child, watching you actually doing it its awesome man, great video
i used windows xp up intill 2018 then used windows 7 for the longest time, and just last month switched to windows 10. but will be swithing to mac tomrowo with an egpu running windows 7 in a vm with gpu passthrough.
0:47 that's actually DVI. Just in the DMS-59 format.
I think you can change the resolution of SWBF2 in the main menu video options but not while in game.
I have been tempted by Windows XP PCs at Value Village (which is the chain that became Savers but they still use the old branding here in Canada) since I have several CD-ROM/DVD-ROM games and applications that simply won't work past Windows XP but I'm always worried that any Value Village computer will be ridden by viruses that have disabled normal functioning in Windows and which I'd have to connect a laptop to disinfect.
That GPU must have been what had the price jacked up. I had Q6600 back in the day with 4GB of RAM and AMD Radeon 5760s for far less money.
How cool, I have a T3400 and an Optiplex 785 I've been wanting to install BF2 on, but the windows updates were an issue for me. I'm gonna try that and see what I get. Was thinking of running XP on the 785 and Windows 7 on the T3400. Something fun about playing with hardware from my childhood before all the RGB and stuff we have now days. Also something fun about running an old ass Windows XP PC maxed out on ram on a SSD and an "old" graphics card
Had a good gaming Computer years ago,When Windows XP Media Center Edition first got released,That was the best Windows XP I also had as well,Never crashed at all,It was also quick at loading up the internet,Quick for loading up games as well,Also used to do a lot of Computer building then as well
Imagine getting WinXP in 2012 and using it until 2019. Wow! And I thought using a CRT until 2014 was weird, which I did. Never was able to justify paying hundreds of units of money for a worse image just to get wide screen and a slightly higher res, which is why I held onto my iiyama 22" for so long. Eventually, the electricity bill was the main deciding factor besides the thing showing that it has been aging for a while with the image quality slightly degrading over time. That CRT's wattage was all the way through the roof given its size.
BTW you could also have run a repair install to get that preinstalled XP up and running again. That routine was pretty darn solid back in XP already.
Had the 490 server variety of this system. Nearly burnt down my house when the PSU went up in smoke.