First post, by imafuturecorpse
I've been wanting to play some early Windows XP games, specifically the Legacy of Kain games. While the Steam and GOG releases are fine, I want to play them on the hardware they were built for...
They seem to be built for PCs with either single core or dual core, and Windows XP is the recommended operating system for most of them.
So I want to put together a rig for early Win XP games that can run those games plus others from the early 2000s. My requirements are either a single or dual core Pentium 4 or D processor, an AGP graphics card (I would prefer Nvidia but AMD is okay as well), and probably socket 775.
I'd like it to be pretty powerful so I can run most games of that era with full specs.
I've seen some people pair that last AGP cards with a Core 2 Quad, but most games of that era really needed a single or dual core processor from what I understand.
Games that I might also play from that time are the Harry Potter 1-3 (and Qudditich), American McGee's Alice, pretty much any Unreal game, or Quake 3 game, Halo, and maybe Half-Life 1, maybe the Sims and Black & White 1 and 2, and Fable? Maybe more, but that is stuff I'll decide on later when shopping for games.
So, yeah, anyways, I really need recommendations for a build with the above requirements that pairs well together.
If anyone could offer suggestions I'd very much appreciate it.