Reply 20 of 45, by VivienM
JosefHrib wrote on 2024-02-18, 22:18:And when is socket LGA1155 is ok for WinXP what from same Ivy Bridge lineup but year newer socket LGA2011? No go with XP?
I think LGA2011 is just... sooooo... overkill for a retro XP system. But I think people have done it...
I would add one other point: once you start getting into the late 2000s, a lot of games started to be distributed through online platforms like Steam, etc. You will probably have more luck playing Steam Game X from 2009 on your modern system with Windows 11 than trying to get your retro XP machine connected to Steam...
... meanwhile, the best candidates for the retro system are older games on CD/DVD that use that DRM type whose name escapes me that Microsoft disabled from 7-and-newer versions of Windows.
But... what I think drives the fairly-crazy Ivy Bridge XP builds is how plentiful and cheap Ivy Bridge hardware is. With the stagnation in Intel-land in the second half of the 2010s, there are a lot of people who have only been upgrading to newer systems in the last year or two. So... why not go for an all-out XP retro build if the parts are cheaper/easier to source than something slower?