aspiringnobody wrote on 2021-09-21, 01:19:
So, If I'm reading this correctly the advantage to having a PC from this era is mostly the advantages of having windows XP vs newer windows?
Pretty much. I own a P4 HT system, and it's beaten completely by my Core 2 Duo laptop, both running XP. A Core 2 Quad or even a fast desktop Core 2 Duo (3GHz+) will be much better than a P4 and still have 100% XP compatibility. Other than a museum piece, I can't find justification to a Pentium 4 / Pentium D system these days, surely not to build one from scratch. The only reason I still have mine, is because I bought it in 2004.
Games that freak out with multi-core are actually quite rare, and if all workarounds fail, temporarily disabling all cores but one should work.
aspiringnobody wrote on 2021-09-21, 01:19:Any thoughts on Win2k vs WinXP?
I say - go with XP. 2K may have an advantage on older and lower-powered hardware, cause it's a bit lighter than XP (although even for that there is Windows FLP, never tried it actually). However, for anything P4 and later - XP all the way, because it gives you pretty much all the advantages of Win2K, some advantages of Win9x, a more versatile UI, better PnP support, and with SP3 it can be patched to be a semi-modern OS, with greatly extended software compatibility.
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