Reply 80 of 135, by RandomStranger
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theiceman085 wrote on 2023-05-17, 19:36:your win xp system talk made me curious. I think I have mentioned my old xp pc already that is at my grand parents house that I […]
your win xp system talk made me curious. I think I have mentioned my old xp pc already that is at my grand parents house that I might use in the future for a second xp build. in the future. I am there at the moment until Friday. As expected it is still working because my grandparents did not use it that often.
Would a pc with these specs
Intel Pentium D 930 3.GHZ
Asus P5WD2 Socket 775
Radeon Xt 1800 512 Mb graphics card
HP 512 MB DDR SDRAMalready a solid late xp gaming machine
or should I change some parts in the future when I am going start with the xp project to get most out of the core parts I have here?
Your cut-off point will be very early in the XP era. The X1800XT is a good card as part of a collection, but very underpowered past 2008. If you want consistently good performance up to games from 2010, then I think the lowest you should go is a GTX280/HD4890 performance level (GTX460, GTX750, HD6850, HD7770), and a few games can still struggle above 900p.
You'd also need a fast dual core, either a 3+GHz Core2 Duo E8000 series or any i3. There are some speed sensitive games, and there are some that don't like more than 2 cores. You don't benefit much from 4 cores in XP anyway.
As for RAM, just go for 4GB. RAM is cheap and even if XP can't use more than 3-3.5GB without PAE enabled, it's enough even for late XP titles.