Nice build! Personally, my opinion is that overkill makes a lot of sense for a Windows XP gaming computer. The problem with the XP era is that it spans such a long period of time. XP came out in 2001, and many people stuck with it until or even beyond 2009 (Win7). So what is a period-correct XP …

This is a great build! I think you could add a cheap SSD, perhaps increase the RAM a bit too and you'd gain a lot in terms of loading times. I have no need for an SSD, as this is not my primary computer, I'm fine with a 7200RPM HDD. A 32-bit OS without PAE can only address up to 4GB of total memory …

For the original version of Skyrim to remove the Steam requirement you just need to use Steamless to strip the Steam requirement from the launcher and game executable. If it's a new install then import the .reg as well Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00 [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Bethesda …

My hardware configuration may be a little overkill for Windows XP/DX9 and earlier games, but at least I didn't go with LGA 2011 with a 6+ core hyperthreaded i7, SLI 780 Tis or a Kepler Titan, quad channel RAM, and a 2TB SSD; that would be a total waste for Windows XP. I don't think a GTX 460 is that …

RandomStranger wrote on 2021-05-12, 06:11: Good for dual boot, that's for sure. I myself don't like overkill builds either, but it won't have any problem running XP era games. If I do dual boot on this machine, I'll probably install a 64-bit Linux Distro and run Steam/Proton for DX10+ games.

This sounds more like a Win7 PC.... Yes this is Windows 7 era hardware, but my point was to build an overpowered Windows XP system, to play older D3D7-9 games that have issues in Windows 10, or extra features like EAX or DirectDraw hardware acceleration in Windows XP. I chose the 32-bit version for …

I just built my first dedicated XP machine. Here are its specs: Motherboard: Intel DQ67SW socket LGA 1155 chipset Q67 CPU: i5-2550K 3.4Ghz 4C/4T CPU Cooler: ARCTIC Alpine 12 GPU: Gigabyte GTX 460 1GB PCIe 2.0 x16 Dual -slot; 368.81 driver (the last Nvidia XP driver) RAM: 4GB DDR3 1333Mhz (2.99GB …

Greetings retro PC gamers. I am going to build my first Windows XP machine; this will be my first time using XP since 2009. The parts I will use are Motherboard: MSI MS-6590 (3x 400Mhz RAM Slots, 1x AGP8x slot, 5x PCI slots, SATA 150, ATA 133) CPU: AMD Athlon XP 3000+ @2.1GHz with 400Mhz FSB GPU: …