awgamer wrote:Mobile versions of core 2 had chips with 133 & 166 fsb so depending on your board you should be able to get a desktop that low. 6x133/800mhz, 6x166/1ghz.
for C2D mobile I think the lowest was 166 (like my t7200), but I think most people would run desktop chips so the lowest was 200, yes you can manually underclock the fsb, but most of the time it requires a reboot (I don't consider things like setfsb reliable enough), while with AMD it's really easy to go under 1Ghz with just a software on windows anytime
y2k se wrote:SPBHM wrote:so realistically it's easy to use the same system with dual boot for new windows 10 games and windows XP games.
It not realistically easy for me to use the same machine for WIn10 and WinXP racing games. Some of the XP games will not handle the controller configuration and three monitor setup.
I'll probably build an H61 + Sandy/Ivy Bridge i3 system. All of the XP games I will run are single-threaded and NASCAR Racing 2003 Season could tax my overclocked i5-3570K with all graphic options enabled.
I think triple screen gaming is not supported by the XP drivers for AMD at least, not sure about Nvidia, so it's just a question of disabling the extra monitors?
as for controllers what do you mean? I have the same gamepad and wheel running on both, but if it doesn't have an XP driver you will need a different one anyway
some really epic underclocks going on, it seems like K10 is even a lot better than k8 for this stuff, when I went from A64 to Core 2 (and now running an i5 sandy bridge) I always missed the flexibility I had with the AMD CPU with clock and voltage control on windows
the lowest my k8 would go was 600MHz (4x 150) with my motherboard.