First post, by Kreshna Aryaguna Nurzaman
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Hello forum-goers.
I'm building a Windows XP system, and need a motherboard accordingly. Unfortunately, I don't know much about modern (XP era and above) mobos. I need a motherboard that meets the following criteria:
- The mobo needs to be full ATX with many expansion slots, not mATX, not mITX, but full ATX motherboard.
- I am going to use two GPUs; one Radeon, one GeForce. No, the GPUs aren't supposed to work together. Instead, I'm going to use them in turn; if the old game doesn't work on the Radeon GPU, then I'll switch to the GeForce, and vice versa. As such, the mobo needs to have at least two ×16 PCIe slots.
- The mobo needs to have at least a single PCI slot for older sound card, like Diamond MX300 or SB Live!
- It would be nice if the mobo has on-board sound card with on-board joystick port (gameport), but it's not a mandatory. At worst, I could always use the built-in gameport on the PCI soundcard mentioned above.
- The mobo doesn't need to support the latest Intel/AMD CPU. In fact, something like Core2Duo or early-generations i5 should be fine. My building philosophy is "fast GPU with slower CPU," due to bad experience with Crimson Skies.
- Either Intel or AMD is fine. For this particular system I have no particular preference, as long as it runs older games (circa 1999 to 2006) well. The only platform I avoid is Athlon XP, because it needs esoteric, powerful 3.3v and 5v PSU, which is pretty hard to find.
Any brand/model recommendations?
Thanks in advance.
Never thought this thread would be that long, but now, for something different.....
Kreshna Aryaguna Nurzaman.