KCompRoom2000 wrote:I'm jealous that you have a Sandy Bridge board to spare for an XP build, I'm still using an old HP with a Q6600 as a daily driver Windows 7 machine and I could certainly use a cheap upgrade. 😳
Why be jealous? You can get a used Lenovo M92P tower (a real tower, not an SFF system) with an Ivy Bridge i5 3470 or 3570 and 8GB of RAM for around $150 on eBay, or maybe a little higher price at other online stores. Sandy Bridge systems cost a little less.
You get a Windows license that will let you install Windows 10 (or whatever came on it, but 10 basically always works with the existing license), a platform from 2012 (probably Intel Q75 in most of these), USB 3.0, PCI-E 2.0, 4x DDR3 slots, a decent basic PSU (a $5 adapter cable can be purchased that will adapt any recent PSU to work on a system like this) and CPU performance that competes decently with modern 2c\4t Pentiums and i3s or low-wattage quad cores. Unless you can't live without a system made from retail boxed parts with tons of BIOS options, its a no brainer if you need a cheap upgrade.
In these days when RAM prices are more than twice what they were a few years ago and CPU performance is still barely increasing year after year (and then dropping back to 2013 levels after security microcode updates), buying a second hand system is a great way to save money.
Now for some blitting from the back buffer.