First post, by crashprime
So I am planning on doing an end of life/end of era XP build. Retro? Yeah, the non-extended lifespan of XP is 13-years passed, and the OS itself is legal to drink in the US by Christmas this year. My research tells me Ivy Bridge is the last chipset supported but Haswell can be made to work. I'm not sure I would notice the difference AVX2 brings. Kind of looking 3770k vs 4790k.
My plan was 3770k on Z77 chipset (I have this in an old box actually) but Haswell stuff do be super affordable. This seems insane for XP anyways but high refresh rate wasn't really a huge deal in those times, whereas it is now so sure it might be worth a few extra frames? I was thinking the architectural differences would be pretty low on XP and I had seen some things about Haswell not running some 16-bit stuff. I want to get a lot of mileage out of this PC so cutting off some 95/98 era stuff would be a bit of a bummer.
GPU will be a 980 ti (technically speaking 960 is endgame officially but the faster Maxwell cards just need a bit of help to allow the driver to work). I'm thinking the GPU is so starved of CPU performance at this point the Titan X would offer zero benefit and just use more power.
I am assuming I am being overly nit picky but if you are going for fastest XP, you don't really wanna compromise too much.
Any tips from XP overkill owners to save me some time and/or frustration?