Save your money when it comes to 4 way sli on xp, there are no drivers that are available for XP with 4 way sli (Apart from the 7000 series dual GPU's such as the 7950gx2) This is due to the triple frame buffer limit in DX9
@@RobloxianX it's a limit on the amount of GPU cores, so makes no difference if you are running 2 cards with 2 GPUs on them or 4 cards with 1 GPU on them. 3 way sli was never implemented on Windows XP
@@jasonsanders1244 I guess, 2 more questions I have is: Can Windows Vista go to 4 way SLI with the GTX Titan X Maxwell, and can Windows 7 work with the 3090 Ti in SLI? Both for the list im making right now (Asking for the officially supported answer obv)
@@RobloxianX not tried 4 way Maxwell Titan on Vista but I am running 3 way without issue. Not tried 3090s in sli on 7, but I can't think of any technical reason why not (unless there is a limitation in the driver)
Why 4 Me personally i use a pretty badass dualboot machine It has i7 3770 with higmatek windpower 930 cooler runs cpu at 4ghz 8gb ram 2x4 480 gb kingston a400 ssd has wijdoss xp and 10on it (thats why i even got 8gb sijxe i use32 bit winxp 2tb hdd Gigabyte z68 xpud3p 650ti 1gb (yes gpu is bit weak )
I'm glad you qualified this by saying only "officially supported" hardware, and that you want all the extra cores to try video rendering... Because you could manage to squeeze a tiny bit extra performance in gaming specifically, with a Haswell CPU and Maxwell GPU. But they require some very minor text edit hackery to get unsupported drivers working. My ultimate XP rig has a Z87 mobo, a Pentium G3258 Anniversary (unlocked), and a Titan X (Maxwell). Since most XP games can't even use more than two threads, you get better results with two extremely fast cores, for less overhead. An i7 4790K with hyperthreading disabled, and two cores disabled, would give slightly better results... but they still cost ten times as much as a G3258. And a Broadwell based i7 5775C would theoretically give the best results with it's L4 cache, but they require a rare Z97 mobo. And chipset drivers would likely require even more hacking.
my main pc has an i7 4790 cuz its just an old dell optiplex that came with one, the optiplex cost 50 australian dollars as a total which was pretty cheap
I am really looking forward to see you show more of this PC doing all kinds of stuff with it like showcasing more games, showing how fast the PC is to use, seeing how much of this RAM you can use etc. An Windows XP PC with 32 GB of RAM is just alien to me, it is such an interesting concept by itself.
Hey, thanks for the clip for Windows XP x64. yours I cried very hard. I've never seen anyone make Windows XP x64 as awesome as you. I am the creator of UpdatePacks for Windows XP/Server 2003. x86/x64 (5eraph UpdatePacks - OnePiece UpdatePacks) I hope I can build a Windows XP x64 computer one day like yours.
hey, I am currently using XP x64 as "daily" (2-3 times a week) since Christmas. 4 long months without problems with integrated yours packs into my setup (thank you!). Works flawlessly with i5 Sandy and 16 GB of memory even today! I am planning to upgrade to Maxwell GPU soon, because I have only Fermi rn :)
I've had x64 XP for a long time myself but never had a system dedicated to it, that changes this year. Your work, along with the others has been instrumental in streamlining installations and getting these incredible software working on more modern systems. Thanks for all the work!
I dont know if it was mentioned, but by default installing XP on an SSD will not get an alligned partition which will wear out the SSD way faster and cause slower pefrormance. To solve this, connect the ssd to a windows vista+ machine, create the partition there and then install XP on that partition created. Otherwise, connect the SSD to another PC, run minitool partition wizard and allign the partition. Remember me , the IO performance will improve drastically.
im watching on a gtx titan x and an e5-2687w v2 (among other cool hardware), im very glad someone has made a video about this class of xp x64 machine :)
These videos have sent me down a rabbit hole, started my XP rig with a old Vista era HP SFF PC and now i'm up to a Thinkcentre M73 with 4th gen Core i5
There was something so brilliant about Windows XP, i miss my childhood on counter-strike 1.6. This was my machine specs from 2004-2009 "Windows XP , Pentium 4 3.0ghz, 1gb ram, gtx 440 fx (i think).. Had the best times ever. The thing i miss the most was the download screen/box with the loading bar in the middle..
This video helped me figure out what the heck was the power cycling issue with my pc. It was the exact same as yours, except on a sigle gpu. Thanks a lot bro!
Some corrections: 1. While the E5-2697 v2 is indeed the highest-core count CPU under X79, the problem is it's not the fastest even in multicore. That honor goes to the E5-1680 v2, which is fully unlocked and able to be OC'd at 4.4-4.6ghz. This gives you superlative single core performance, and multi-core equal (and probably slightly better due to better single core perf) to the E5-2697 v2. 2. The Titan Black isn't the best officially supported GPU. That honor goes to the GTX 780 Ti (without .inf modding) or the GTX 980 Ti (with .inf modding) - the GTX 780 Ti, despite having only 3GB of VRAM, can boost way higher because AIB cooling implementations are way better than blower designs, and the same goes for the GTX 980 Ti vs its Titan X Maxwell sibling. To make the GTX 980 Ti work btw, all you need to do is get the 368.81 official XP drivers, shoehorn the device ID of the GTX 980 Ti in the driver .inf file, then proceed as normal. Bam, you're now cooking! 3. How did you enable SLI on two Titan Blacks? Does it even work? Officially, Nvidia allows you to enable two-card SLI until the Fermi generation, with the GTX 580, and 4-card SLI is only possible with the 7900 GX2/7950 GX2; since kepler, to do SLI period you need to go to Windows Vista and later. Not that you need SLI on Windows XP, if you're using a GTX 780 Ti - on average, two GTX 580s are equalled by a GTX 780 in performance, and are soundly beaten in power consumption, frametime consistency, and general peace of mind. A GTX 780 Ti, or better yet, a GTX 980 Ti? They'll shred. It's not even a contest. 4. Where's the Soundblaster X-Fi Titanium? EAX was a big deal in the XP days, and personally I'd rather stick with two TITAN Zs or three GTX 980 Tis and slip in an X-FI Titanium than do 4-card SLI and have no spare room for a soundblaster.
Dude, I admire your knowledge. I'm a newbie but I want to build a xp gamer pc just like this one for my boyfriend. Is there any other consideration I should have beyond what you listed? Or anything that could help me in my quest? I just got my ee degree, so i understand the theory but i dont have enough money to go for the trial an error method 😢 I actually didnt quite understand the error and how it got solved. I wish it was more of a tutorial. Tysm for reading this
Back in the win xp days I was running an M-Audio Audiophile 2496 card, it was a lot cheaper and easier to find than the soundblasters and had all the features I wanted like a decent DSP, MIDI in/out, low latency ASIO support, 96khz and so on. Didn't have EAX but that was just a gimmick. Or maybe it's because I was more interested in making music than playing games.
@@ElShogoso EAX wasn't a gimmick if you played games. Of course, if you were into music production, you didn't need it, but it's always been a fact of life you get the right tool for your needs.
@@qpwoeiruty668 That's fair, I guess the video's focus is on gaming. I just found the soundblasters really overpriced back then for a home consumer, but this video is also about going all-out in specs so that shouldn't be a factor
Ooooh, this is very similar to what I'm building now, same CPU, just with 64GB of ECC DDR3-1600, the P9-X79-E WS motherboard.. Exciting video! Long live XP!
ahhh my windows xp everything is beautiful everything is beautiful not like other windows that forced me to look for keys so that they would stop giving me problems
Even if I didn’t see the Linux statue I could tell you were a Linux user from the astolfo figurine. Jokes aside really interesting video man, would love to see more!
I'd argue that the Radeon HD 7970GHz is actually more of an ultimate XP card than any Nvidia offering for a simple reason: better DisplayPort support. For some reason Nvidia decided to not support higher bandwidth DisplayPort modes on XP, their official documentation simply states "not supported" Meanwhile the Radeon has no such artificial software limits, though admittedly the compatibility is rather spotty and can require some fiddling to get to work. But you can actually reliably do resolutions like 1920x1440@165hz and 2560x1440@120hz while in my experience the Nvidia cards are limited to 100hz or so at high resolutions.
Love the X79 and X99 era of hardware. I actually have a Titan Black I don't use and it has a Raijintek Morpheus heatsink swap on it. Sometimes when using an old board that doesn't boot, I noticed the first thing I do is put in a brand new coin battery. Surprisingly, that can make it not boot properly. But man, trouble shooting used parts is definitely a pain and part of the fun of these older builds. On one board I noticed there was one slightly bent pin and that was enough for the CPU not to post. On another finding out a RAM slot doesn't work was also torturous fun. Haha. My favorite X79 board is the ASROCK Extreme11. I was using it with a Xeon E5-1680V2 multiplier overclocked.
Good video bro! I also have seen some of your other videos they are great too. Im making my own “high spec” xp build… technically 7 and xp. Xp is dualbooted onto a vista era machine with 7 installed. Im just having trouble with drivers im missing audio and ethernet :(( ill get it fixed tho. But yeah w video bro‼️
Lol I'm actually all late watching this but I would be pissed too if Amazon messed up my cable order for this build, I'm actually gonna revive 2 of my Windows XP that I got for free since 2006 I believe so watching this is gonna help...hopefully. Keep it retro on the vids man.
holy moly, i had an P9 X79-LE for a while with an E5 1680V2 that was overclocked asf to get a bit of an upgrade over my i5-6500 rig, cool to see the same family of motherboard
awesome! my setup finally showing up, doing a xp build aswell using a 3770k, z77 asrock extreme4 emotherboard, 32gb g.skill and 2x780ti gpus i wanted to do a 2011 socket set up aswell with some titans blacks but I couldn't find anything local or for a decent price sadly, I do have two 3790x which I was gonna use for the 2011 board setup thank you for this video though, I can't wait to play my childhood games again
Last time I build a xp gaming rig with sli was during the world of warcraft nostrolius private server and I played for months on that xp rig lol. I just had a q6600 build with 680 windforce 4gb so nothing nearly impressive but it handled a decent amount of games at 1080 60fps! Was really fun. I still boot it up but mostly on linux now. Loved this video makes me want to buy old stuff and build a better one!
you could have put a 4960x on that motherboard and overclocked it to 4.4ghz, i used to work for a company that used a custom version of that motherboard basically same board but had IPMI built-in, and that board was SOLID and could handle bringing the CPU to 4.4GHZ all cores, and theoretically you could even get a bit more from the 3960x, we used to OC it to 4.5GHZ IIRC. obviously you needed serious cooling, but in 2015 we had that mounted in RACKMOUNT chassis and running a custom closed loop AIO. we unfortunately had to turn OFF HT, but let me tell you, if you needed single core performance, we had a OC profile that would get the i7-3960x to 4.8GHZ on 2 cores and on 2133mhz ram
@@Pasi123 that chip is a beast but blows motherboard vrms in my experience, i even managed to melt a sabertooth x79's eps connector with that chip, cpu is still fine tho lol
Dude your fin awesome! The attention to detail is amazing using 64bit was genious, I would do the exact thing! I built a ultimate PRE 7 vista build so almost all 2009 HW, also thank you for using supermium I'm personal friends with the Dev so ill let him know you use it, he apperaits every user, if you can message on something I can invite you to a server hes in
😂 I like the way you go in with all of the exotic parts all at once without step by step compatiblity testing. That’s what I call optimistic! A great video though, it’s a real beast. I’m glad that you got it all working. Have you done the bios update yet and switched in the Xeon?
one of the upsides of using XP, NO UNNECESSARY BLOATS RUNNING IN BACKGROUND which means you're really gettin that max performance but hell yea great video; you earn my sub❤
This XP build took me back to when I ran XP on a Packard Bell prebuilt with no graphics card but I did have Encarta Encyclopedia and some helicopter war game pre-installed though.
One thing you should be careful with modular power supplies is there are no standardized pinouts for the end that plugs on the PSU, so you should only use the cables which are shipped with it as pinouts can be different across different models from the same line.
Doesn't exactly count as "modern" anymore, but with some modding, even GTA V can be made to run on XP (though admittedly XP 64bit only, as the game only exists as a 64bit build)
This thing is sick! I wish I had the money and space to build one. Honestly, I have been itching to use windows XP for a while. VM's are to laggy and XP always crashes with the VM's I make. I have two older computers right now. A Dell Inspiron 8000 and a HP Pavilion DV7. The 8000 I have is currently running windows 2000, however, it locked me out so I don't have access to it right now. I will need to re-install windows. The DV7 I daily drive as a secondary computer. If I don't feel like using my main computer, I will switch to the DV7. I think I'm going to put XP on the 8000 just so I have an XP machine.
i remmember windows xp 64bit being pretty prototype and janky, so good job getting it working. Also FarCry 2 is renowned for having problems running so that was a surprise that you choice that as the first test. Rise and Shadow of the Tomb Raider supports SLi even at the DX12 level not sure if they would run on windows Xp though, looks a bit tight to 4 cards in there, looks like you might only be able to fit 3 unless you somehow turn the cards into single slot stead of double slot cards.
You should look into unlocking the turbo boost, not sure about the difference in-game but it will help a lot in multi-threaded scenarios. Also, if you plan into using the machine long term you'll need a way to TRIM that SSD. I know old Samsung SSDs have a Windows XP software that takes care of that, if you have something like an 870 or potentially even older laying around.
It would be awesome of you could get your hands on some WD Velociraptor drives since proper SSD support came only with Windows 7 and the WD drives were the closest consumer thing to actual fast storage back then.
Mine is an i5-3570, h77 mobo, 4gb gtx 960, 16gb ddr3 1600 crucial ballistix sport, 4tb sata3 ssd parted 1tb each for xp and mint then the rest left for spare cells to extend system life, x-fi titanium, blue ray burner, deeprock 3.5" fan controller, xp integral edition, in a rosewill line-m (originally a cm elite 341 with an ultra 3.5" fan controller but gave that system away). It's all you need and easy on the electric bill.
I remember building my first win 95 "gaming pc" it didnt even have a graphics card and I upped it to 64 megs of ram (which was oddly mixed with like EDO ram and sdr ram little sticks and a few full sized ones) and an sis 6326 which is as bad as the rage iic. But I was blown away.I way able to play motocross madness.Then as a child I simply thought megs mattered abd got a voodoo ii 12 meg and was blown away by its performance.Ive been obsessed with gpu's since Im almost 40 and I was a fifth grader back then and the voodoo ii wasnt even slightly new.I remember seeing Kyro cards and pci or agp voodoo 5's back then, and ATI putting those cool looking branding on the boxes.Like the gargoyle head, or what have you
Ionic1k : the E5-2697 V2 has 12 very slow cores at only 2,7 GHz and a 1-core turbo of quazi 3,4 GHz. It also has a MESH architecture which is known to have much slower IPC than the consumer RingBus. Because of these two facts that are provable anytime anywhere, you have made a mistakr, whether it is intentional or by illiteracy. The AMD FX 8370 8c/8t CPU running at stock base of 4.0 GHz turboing on 4-cores simultanrously up to 4,3 GHz has a higher IPC, higher single-core and higher multi-cote performance. And it officially supports Windows XP.
I strongly recommend if you are playing farcry 1 you apply the unofficial 1.5 patch that fixes the ai behavior drastically and that and also unticking that iron sight addon that probably isn't original feature
I’m just a simple man in my 30s watching my childhood fantasy become true
Take my like
Same, this guy swears like me at that age as well.
im just a simple woman in my mid 20s and this is also my dream pc its so nice to watch it
c:
@@agata-1337 You're a vista baby 🤣
same here, brother
I think this build needs a Soundblaster X-FI Titanium. It's roughly the best sound card of that era and EAX was still pretty big for XP games.
Soundblaster X-FI Elite Pro rules them all.
The Rx gaming version also has eax support and it’s newer.
Watching this video on my XP machine (with an X-FI Titanium), as I read this comment haha!
Titanium came out in 2008 which is a Vista era card. The X-Fi fataility was the best of the XP generation with 64MB of ram vs the Titanium's 16MB.
@@anonamouse5917 Significantly higher SNR than any card after it. So no.
Save your money when it comes to 4 way sli on xp, there are no drivers that are available for XP with 4 way sli (Apart from the 7000 series dual GPU's such as the 7950gx2) This is due to the triple frame buffer limit in DX9
What about 3 way SLI? Also, what about the Titan Z? Could you run two of those and get 4 way SLI? Just curious
@@RobloxianX it's a limit on the amount of GPU cores, so makes no difference if you are running 2 cards with 2 GPUs on them or 4 cards with 1 GPU on them.
3 way sli was never implemented on Windows XP
@@jasonsanders1244 Alright, I am making a list of the fastest PC configs with each OS and this helped! For XP i'll just put 1x TITAN Z/2x TITAN BLACK
@@jasonsanders1244 I guess, 2 more questions I have is: Can Windows Vista go to 4 way SLI with the GTX Titan X Maxwell, and can Windows 7 work with the 3090 Ti in SLI? Both for the list im making right now (Asking for the officially supported answer obv)
@@RobloxianX not tried 4 way Maxwell Titan on Vista but I am running 3 way without issue.
Not tried 3090s in sli on 7, but I can't think of any technical reason why not (unless there is a limitation in the driver)
I really need to stop watching your videos. They make me want to spend wayyy too much money on a 4th XP machine.
Real
a *4th?*
The fact that you have 4 xp machines is crazy
I got a cheap dell pre build and a gt 730 I think that good enough
Why 4
Me personally i use a pretty badass dualboot machine
It has i7 3770 with higmatek windpower 930 cooler runs cpu at 4ghz
8gb ram 2x4
480 gb kingston a400 ssd has wijdoss xp and 10on it (thats why i even got 8gb sijxe i use32 bit winxp
2tb hdd
Gigabyte z68 xpud3p
650ti 1gb (yes gpu is bit weak )
You should do this video but with DOS lmao
May I introduce the Rasteris the RETRO ROCKET
lmaoo DOS - THE FUTURE OF GAMING
he would fail in the first 10 seconds lol
@@mr.electronx9036 DOS with 32gb mem and 1To m2 :D lul
Technically any modern computer supports FreeDOS so...
I'm glad you qualified this by saying only "officially supported" hardware, and that you want all the extra cores to try video rendering... Because you could manage to squeeze a tiny bit extra performance in gaming specifically, with a Haswell CPU and Maxwell GPU. But they require some very minor text edit hackery to get unsupported drivers working.
My ultimate XP rig has a Z87 mobo, a Pentium G3258 Anniversary (unlocked), and a Titan X (Maxwell).
Since most XP games can't even use more than two threads, you get better results with two extremely fast cores, for less overhead.
An i7 4790K with hyperthreading disabled, and two cores disabled, would give slightly better results... but they still cost ten times as much as a G3258.
And a Broadwell based i7 5775C would theoretically give the best results with it's L4 cache, but they require a rare Z97 mobo. And chipset drivers would likely require even more hacking.
my main pc has an i7 4790 cuz its just an old dell optiplex that came with one, the optiplex cost 50 australian dollars as a total which was pretty cheap
I am really looking forward to see you show more of this PC doing all kinds of stuff with it like showcasing more games, showing how fast the PC is to use, seeing how much of this RAM you can use etc.
An Windows XP PC with 32 GB of RAM is just alien to me, it is such an interesting concept by itself.
i agree with said assertion
Hey, thanks for the clip for Windows XP x64.
yours
I cried very hard. I've never seen anyone make Windows XP x64 as awesome as you.
I am the creator of UpdatePacks for Windows XP/Server 2003.
x86/x64 (5eraph UpdatePacks - OnePiece UpdatePacks)
I hope I can build a Windows XP x64 computer one day like yours.
hey, I am currently using XP x64 as "daily" (2-3 times a week) since Christmas. 4 long months without problems with integrated yours packs into my setup (thank you!). Works flawlessly with i5 Sandy and 16 GB of memory even today! I am planning to upgrade to Maxwell GPU soon, because I have only Fermi rn :)
I've had x64 XP for a long time myself but never had a system dedicated to it, that changes this year. Your work, along with the others has been instrumental in streamlining installations and getting these incredible software working on more modern systems. Thanks for all the work!
@@phenom957 thx bro i love xp forever
@@tennickjestzajety69 rhx
Thanks for any post mortem update
holy shit i havent found anyone else vibing to Vector Graphics in a long time. good vibes and sick build my dude.
Man, I love your videos! And the fact that you always show your Astolfo figure 😸
hes cute :3
Really enjoyed this, the music the commentary the subject matter and of course the trial and error are what keep me coming back
Astolfo and Tux? Ah, I see you're a man of culture as well.
Awesome video
"Can i go onto BIOS?"
Chinesee MOBO: 不，谢谢
"you NEED to work" while holding a core component is the realest thing ive seen all week
I dont know if it was mentioned, but by default installing XP on an SSD will not get an alligned partition which will wear out the SSD way faster and cause slower pefrormance. To solve this, connect the ssd to a windows vista+ machine, create the partition there and then install XP on that partition created. Otherwise, connect the SSD to another PC, run minitool partition wizard and allign the partition.
Remember me , the IO performance will improve drastically.
Someone finally mentioned it.
The moment he mentioned the SSD, I was like wtf.
im watching on a gtx titan x and an e5-2687w v2 (among other cool hardware), im very glad someone has made a video about this class of xp x64 machine :)
Garuda Linux on a Xeon e5-2658v2 (10c/20t) and radeon rx480 8gb on a chinese x79 mobo here
The Enthoo Pro is such a goated case. It's been my main PCs case for the past few years.
Nice build man! I'm working on something somewhat similar and glad to see I'm not the only one afflicted with this bug!
I’m a simple Man, i see an SLI build, I CLICK. It’s like having multiple engines in a car. Poetry
It's always a good day when you post
These videos have sent me down a rabbit hole, started my XP rig with a old Vista era HP SFF PC and now i'm up to a Thinkcentre M73 with 4th gen Core i5
BUT CAN IT RUN CRYSIS?
The gamer question yeaaaaaaaa
Bruh got the To Love Ru profile picture
Hey I know you! you're the cool guy that uploaded those cool trance songs in midnight club 2 and old NFS games.
Damn nostalgia😂😂
Don't you dare think I did not notice all the Nekopara game on that last monitor.
gtx 980ti and Titan X macwell are the fastest gpus with xp supported drivers.
I looked at this, while you can get drivers for those cards they are not official. I wanted to keep this build all officially supported hardware.
980 TIs and Titan XMs have AWFUL VRMs though, unless you go with the 980 Ti KPE.
@@WasmachinemanThat doesn't matter at all...
@@hupert9421 Haha, yeah, until your card blows at stock clocks.
@@Wasmachineman Admittedly, this is very anecdotal, but I used to daily drive a Titan X and I never had an issue. Worked and boosted super well.
There was something so brilliant about Windows XP, i miss my childhood on counter-strike 1.6. This was my machine specs from 2004-2009 "Windows XP , Pentium 4 3.0ghz, 1gb ram, gtx 440 fx (i think).. Had the best times ever. The thing i miss the most was the download screen/box with the loading bar in the middle..
Amd athlon 3000+ with a Mx 440 and 64mb vram. Played counter strike for years
Super awesome! I had just built a sleeper PC in an XP-era case, but this makes me actually want to run XP!
I love how i get to relive all of your troubleshooting hell haha. Good stuff
This video helped me figure out what the heck was the power cycling issue with my pc. It was the exact same as yours, except on a sigle gpu. Thanks a lot bro!
I'm 35, this takes me back to my first proper gaming rig, great video bro.
6:10 Shit in a plastic fucking trash bag got me dying 🤣
Edit: Should I make a vid where every time he says the f word and its a little funny
Some corrections:
1. While the E5-2697 v2 is indeed the highest-core count CPU under X79, the problem is it's not the fastest even in multicore. That honor goes to the E5-1680 v2, which is fully unlocked and able to be OC'd at 4.4-4.6ghz. This gives you superlative single core performance, and multi-core equal (and probably slightly better due to better single core perf) to the E5-2697 v2.
2. The Titan Black isn't the best officially supported GPU. That honor goes to the GTX 780 Ti (without .inf modding) or the GTX 980 Ti (with .inf modding) - the GTX 780 Ti, despite having only 3GB of VRAM, can boost way higher because AIB cooling implementations are way better than blower designs, and the same goes for the GTX 980 Ti vs its Titan X Maxwell sibling. To make the GTX 980 Ti work btw, all you need to do is get the 368.81 official XP drivers, shoehorn the device ID of the GTX 980 Ti in the driver .inf file, then proceed as normal. Bam, you're now cooking!
3. How did you enable SLI on two Titan Blacks? Does it even work? Officially, Nvidia allows you to enable two-card SLI until the Fermi generation, with the GTX 580, and 4-card SLI is only possible with the 7900 GX2/7950 GX2; since kepler, to do SLI period you need to go to Windows Vista and later. Not that you need SLI on Windows XP, if you're using a GTX 780 Ti - on average, two GTX 580s are equalled by a GTX 780 in performance, and are soundly beaten in power consumption, frametime consistency, and general peace of mind. A GTX 780 Ti, or better yet, a GTX 980 Ti? They'll shred. It's not even a contest.
4. Where's the Soundblaster X-Fi Titanium? EAX was a big deal in the XP days, and personally I'd rather stick with two TITAN Zs or three GTX 980 Tis and slip in an X-FI Titanium than do 4-card SLI and have no spare room for a soundblaster.
Dude, I admire your knowledge. I'm a newbie but I want to build a xp gamer pc just like this one for my boyfriend. Is there any other consideration I should have beyond what you listed? Or anything that could help me in my quest? I just got my ee degree, so i understand the theory but i dont have enough money to go for the trial an error method 😢
I actually didnt quite understand the error and how it got solved. I wish it was more of a tutorial. Tysm for reading this
Back in the win xp days I was running an M-Audio Audiophile 2496 card, it was a lot cheaper and easier to find than the soundblasters and had all the features I wanted like a decent DSP, MIDI in/out, low latency ASIO support, 96khz and so on. Didn't have EAX but that was just a gimmick. Or maybe it's because I was more interested in making music than playing games.
@@ElShogoso EAX wasn't a gimmick if you played games. Of course, if you were into music production, you didn't need it, but it's always been a fact of life you get the right tool for your needs.
@@qpwoeiruty668 That's fair, I guess the video's focus is on gaming. I just found the soundblasters really overpriced back then for a home consumer, but this video is also about going all-out in specs so that shouldn't be a factor
I love the look of "massive block of computer" that 4 way SLI and a massive tower cooler looks.
This was very interesting, bro) keep it up, subbed)
Thanks for this video, legit made me realize that the Dell Poweredge im running has a Gen1 Xeon in it and I could really use an upgrade.
I love the amount of profanity in this video, pretty accurate for when a few things go wrong with your pc. lol
Insane Xp machine! Well done 👍
XP is still one of my favorite operating systems
Ooooh, this is very similar to what I'm building now, same CPU, just with 64GB of ECC DDR3-1600, the P9-X79-E WS motherboard.. Exciting video! Long live XP!
@phenom957 see my comment in thread for updating bios if you have to! E.g. There is a USB Bios flashback button on this board.
I Like Windows XP Too!
ahhh my windows xp everything is beautiful everything is beautiful not like other windows that forced me to look for keys so that they would stop giving me problems
men and where do you get it?
There have been many over the years but the last one that helped me was BNH Software
Even if I didn’t see the Linux statue I could tell you were a Linux user from the astolfo figurine. Jokes aside really interesting video man, would love to see more!
I'd argue that the Radeon HD 7970GHz is actually more of an ultimate XP card than any Nvidia offering for a simple reason: better DisplayPort support.
For some reason Nvidia decided to not support higher bandwidth DisplayPort modes on XP, their official documentation simply states "not supported"
Meanwhile the Radeon has no such artificial software limits, though admittedly the compatibility is rather spotty and can require some fiddling to get to work. But you can actually reliably do resolutions like 1920x1440@165hz and 2560x1440@120hz while in my experience the Nvidia cards are limited to 100hz or so at high resolutions.
A UEFI bios and an actual SSD are both so immensely cursed for a setup with XP
Sata drives were normal for xp, support for them goes back to windows 98, and those are the only kind to bother using.
Love the X79 and X99 era of hardware. I actually have a Titan Black I don't use and it has a Raijintek Morpheus heatsink swap on it. Sometimes when using an old board that doesn't boot, I noticed the first thing I do is put in a brand new coin battery. Surprisingly, that can make it not boot properly. But man, trouble shooting used parts is definitely a pain and part of the fun of these older builds. On one board I noticed there was one slightly bent pin and that was enough for the CPU not to post. On another finding out a RAM slot doesn't work was also torturous fun. Haha. My favorite X79 board is the ASROCK Extreme11. I was using it with a Xeon E5-1680V2 multiplier overclocked.
Good video bro! I also have seen some of your other videos they are great too. Im making my own “high spec” xp build… technically 7 and xp. Xp is dualbooted onto a vista era machine with 7 installed. Im just having trouble with drivers im missing audio and ethernet :(( ill get it fixed tho. But yeah w video bro‼️
Always nice to see that you run Gnome on the second screen, haha :D
I remember getting a brand new Athlon 64 3500+ with XP 64bit and no game wanted to work with it at the time except Far Cry with the 64bit patch.
this build is insane even for modern computing
Lol I'm actually all late watching this but I would be pissed too if Amazon messed up my cable order for this build, I'm actually gonna revive 2 of my Windows XP that I got for free since 2006 I believe so watching this is gonna help...hopefully. Keep it retro on the vids man.
Astolfo excellence is very much appreciated. Oh and the tech is cool too
My brother it's 2024. What a legend.
Great effort, i really liked the video.
Great build and great video! A high end CRT monitor would take this build to another level
Love this. XP on an SSD is crazy fast. So smooth.
holy moly, i had an P9 X79-LE for a while with an E5 1680V2 that was overclocked asf to get a bit of an upgrade over my i5-6500 rig, cool to see the same family of motherboard
This reminds me of the fastest officially supported windows 98 pc by mattkc
Great video! I've wanted to do something like this for a while now. I'm really interested in seeing this machine but with CRT monitors.
awesome! my setup finally showing up, doing a xp build aswell using a 3770k, z77 asrock extreme4 emotherboard, 32gb g.skill and 2x780ti gpus
i wanted to do a 2011 socket set up aswell with some titans blacks but I couldn't find anything local or for a decent price sadly, I do have two 3790x which I was gonna use for the 2011 board setup
thank you for this video though, I can't wait to play my childhood games again
Last time I build a xp gaming rig with sli was during the world of warcraft nostrolius private server and I played for months on that xp rig lol. I just had a q6600 build with 680 windforce 4gb so nothing nearly impressive but it handled a decent amount of games at 1080 60fps! Was really fun. I still boot it up but mostly on linux now. Loved this video makes me want to buy old stuff and build a better one!
I've built an absolute monster of a natively supported Windows 98 machine.. runs games from this era at 150-200fps.. want to so the same for XP next 😊
you could have put a 4960x on that motherboard and overclocked it to 4.4ghz, i used to work for a company that used a custom version of that motherboard basically same board but had IPMI built-in, and that board was SOLID and could handle bringing the CPU to 4.4GHZ all cores, and theoretically you could even get a bit more from the 3960x, we used to OC it to 4.5GHZ IIRC. obviously you needed serious cooling, but in 2015 we had that mounted in RACKMOUNT chassis and running a custom closed loop AIO. we unfortunately had to turn OFF HT, but let me tell you, if you needed single core performance, we had a OC profile that would get the i7-3960x to 4.8GHZ on 2 cores and on 2133mhz ram
Or he could get the overclockable 8c/16t Xeon E5-1680v2 which for some reason never got an i7 version
@@Pasi123 they couldn't overclock very well at the end. as the cpus became closer to end of life, the binnings got worse. VIDs were too high on them.
@@Pasi123 that chip is a beast but blows motherboard vrms in my experience, i even managed to melt a sabertooth x79's eps connector with that chip, cpu is still fine tho lol
Great video. Fun to watch.
One little mistake to mention: TITAN not TITIAN, but we get what you mean.
Keep this kind of content coming.
Dude your fin awesome! The attention to detail is amazing using 64bit was genious, I would do the exact thing! I built a ultimate PRE 7 vista build so almost all 2009 HW, also thank you for using supermium I'm personal friends with the Dev so ill let him know you use it, he apperaits every user, if you can message on something I can invite you to a server hes in
im using the same case for my next gaming pc since i liked how it looked in this video, thx :3
not only you build a really ultimate Windows XP PC but you build a early 2014 ultimate pc ever
not the nekopara games on the desktop on second screen lmao🤣🤣🤣
been binge watching pc building vids after i finished my second pc build in my life
😂 I like the way you go in with all of the exotic parts all at once without step by step compatiblity testing. That’s what I call optimistic! A great video though, it’s a real beast. I’m glad that you got it all working. Have you done the bios update yet and switched in the Xeon?
one of the upsides of using XP, NO UNNECESSARY BLOATS RUNNING IN BACKGROUND which means you're really gettin that max performance but hell yea great video; you earn my sub❤
I relate to this so much as someone who went through hell on a recent Linux build
I love the Enthoo pro. Got the tempered glass version and it’s one of the few modern cases with enough 5.25 slots for my workload.
This XP build took me back to when I ran XP on a Packard Bell prebuilt with no graphics card but I did have Encarta Encyclopedia and some helicopter war game pre-installed though.
Watching you diagnose that was hilarious
close enough. welcome back lain
One thing you should be careful with modular power supplies is there are no standardized pinouts for the end that plugs on the PSU, so you should only use the cables which are shipped with it as pinouts can be different across different models from the same line.
I had a GTX280 x 3 plus one 8800gt as a physX card many years ago. Then upgraded to two GTX295s water-cooled. The memories
you got really lucky - 00 on first boot, from the 100s of Systems we had, usually resulted in CPU or MB swap (usually fried CPU)
The world's fastest supported windows xp pc can even handle modern games.
Just dual-boot Windows 10 with XP in order to play modern games
Doesn't exactly count as "modern" anymore, but with some modding, even GTA V can be made to run on XP (though admittedly XP 64bit only, as the game only exists as a 64bit build)
That's a really good PC case. I made a video of me building my 4090 build. That case is indestructible
Watching an X99 board cause issues and difficulty and basically dying on the operating table is probably the most x99 thing I've ever seen.
YESSS A NEW VIDEOOO
This thing is sick! I wish I had the money and space to build one. Honestly, I have been itching to use windows XP for a while. VM's are to laggy and XP always crashes with the VM's I make. I have two older computers right now. A Dell Inspiron 8000 and a HP Pavilion DV7. The 8000 I have is currently running windows 2000, however, it locked me out so I don't have access to it right now. I will need to re-install windows. The DV7 I daily drive as a secondary computer. If I don't feel like using my main computer, I will switch to the DV7. I think I'm going to put XP on the 8000 just so I have an XP machine.
i remmember windows xp 64bit being pretty prototype and janky, so good job getting it working. Also FarCry 2 is renowned for having problems running so that was a surprise that you choice that as the first test. Rise and Shadow of the Tomb Raider supports SLi even at the DX12 level not sure if they would run on windows Xp though, looks a bit tight to 4 cards in there, looks like you might only be able to fit 3 unless you somehow turn the cards into single slot stead of double slot cards.
You should look into unlocking the turbo boost, not sure about the difference in-game but it will help a lot in multi-threaded scenarios. Also, if you plan into using the machine long term you'll need a way to TRIM that SSD. I know old Samsung SSDs have a Windows XP software that takes care of that, if you have something like an 870 or potentially even older laying around.
The algorithm brought me here. Great video!
eyy nice build. I also use the enthoo pro... but for my main rig!
Now think of having this machine back in 2001 - woof😮
with the newest hardware on it being from 2014? did you even watch the same video?
It would be awesome of you could get your hands on some WD Velociraptor drives since proper SSD support came only with Windows 7 and the WD drives were the closest consumer thing to actual fast storage back then.
Fun video! Subscribed.
Mine is an i5-3570, h77 mobo, 4gb gtx 960, 16gb ddr3 1600 crucial ballistix sport, 4tb sata3 ssd parted 1tb each for xp and mint then the rest left for spare cells to extend system life, x-fi titanium, blue ray burner, deeprock 3.5" fan controller, xp integral edition, in a rosewill line-m (originally a cm elite 341 with an ultra 3.5" fan controller but gave that system away). It's all you need and easy on the electric bill.
I remember building my first win 95 "gaming pc" it didnt even have a graphics card and I upped it to 64 megs of ram (which was oddly mixed with like EDO ram and sdr ram little sticks and a few full sized ones) and an sis 6326 which is as bad as the rage iic. But I was blown away.I way able to play motocross madness.Then as a child I simply thought megs mattered abd got a voodoo ii 12 meg and was blown away by its performance.Ive been obsessed with gpu's since Im almost 40 and I was a fifth grader back then and the voodoo ii wasnt even slightly new.I remember seeing Kyro cards and pci or agp voodoo 5's back then, and ATI putting those cool looking branding on the boxes.Like the gargoyle head, or what have you
I feel so lucky to have one SLI build in my life. It sucks that we have moved beyond that tech instead of improving it.
can't wait to see the daily drive vid
That astolfo figure
Ionic1k : the E5-2697 V2 has 12 very slow cores at only 2,7 GHz and a 1-core turbo of quazi 3,4 GHz. It also has a MESH architecture which is known to have much slower IPC than the consumer RingBus. Because of these two facts that are provable anytime anywhere, you have made a mistakr, whether it is intentional or by illiteracy.
The AMD FX 8370 8c/8t CPU running at stock base of 4.0 GHz turboing on 4-cores simultanrously up to 4,3 GHz has a higher IPC, higher single-core and higher multi-cote performance. And it officially supports Windows XP.
I strongly recommend if you are playing farcry 1 you apply the unofficial 1.5 patch that fixes the ai behavior drastically and that and also unticking that iron sight addon that probably isn't original feature
I love how you are reusing an old Dell server!
1:55 Don’t we all love these GPUs TITIAN 😂😂😂
Try running Crysis 1, Stalker: Clear Sky and GTA IV on this thing. They've been demanding games for their time being. Also, Stalker 2 came out.
i litterally wasnt born when windows xp released but i love watching these videos, also, Astolfo :3
"Enough about the parts, let's build it" *starts speaking about the case*