I thought you really liked Windows 10? If it hasn't been giving you any problems, then go for the Win10/XP dual boot option.

Windows 10 if you can get everything to work with solid drivers and perform well. Otherwise 7. Honestly it should fly and perform great with 10, my only suggestion would be maybe add an SSD to it if you can 😀

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I thought you really liked Windows 10? If it hasn't been giving you any problems, then go for the Win10/XP dual boot option.

This is the best option as Win10 will brick with some dx9 games due to the copy protection those games use and xp will get the job done for those older games. I understand what it is like to go through tough times especially when another recession is sweeping in.

I do love 10, but is a 6000+ and 7900gtx enough for it.

As for SSD I kept my 240gb SSD and my 1.5 and 2tb drives.

We sold, board, cpu, ram and GPU.

So the x2 is now in my antec eleven hundred with 10 120mm fans cooling it 🤣

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I do love 10, but is a 6000+ and 7900gtx enough for it.

As for SSD I kept my 240gb SSD and my 1.5 and 2tb drives.

We sold, board, cpu, ram and GPU.

So the x2 is now in my antec eleven hundred with 10 120mm fans cooling it 🤣

Keep in mind, Windows 10 is being used on tablets with 1GB of memory and Atom CPUs with less than half the per-thread performance of your 6000+. An X2 will certainly lack some newer instruction sets (and efficiency) but it should be more than enough to make 10 work alright.

With an SSD and at least 4GB of RAM, you'll be fine.

It should make do but you have to keep it kinda lean and not have too much going on in the back ground. People love to install a lot of stuff that runs in the background these days but at least you got 8gb ram with that rig.

My full Time system runs 2k, but it can't run vista or 7 and I don't care. id use what ever os works best on the system.

I setup 10 on a laptop with 2gb of ddr2 667, a 2.0ghz Core2Duo and Geforce 7600GO graphics. It runs amazing for basic web browsing and just average tasks with no weird issues. I think your setup would fly 😀 and as stated above, dual booting with XP would make it perfect.

7 or 10 😀

I would say Windows 7.

There shouldn't be anything strange about using older hardware. We have at least a 10 year period of PC hardware that's perfectly usable for day-to-day purposes.

I use Windows XP and 7 every day, but I also have Win98SE and ME systems in active use too. I used to run Windows 2000 on a desktop here, but I replaced it with XP after I gave up trying to find wi-fi adapters that would work with it. I would definitely install Windows 2000 again if I need it.

I guess my newest laptop is a Thinkpad T60 from 2006 and my newest desktop is a custom-built unit with an LGA775 nForce board, Pentium D 2.8GHz and GeForce GTS 250. I don't even own a Core i# system, or anything with UEFI. They don't offer anything I need that isn't already being filled by older hardware.

I'll give 10 a shot on it. Might try looking for a dx11 gpu a cheaper one maybe gts 450

Not sure whats going on, Vista, 7, 8.1 and 10 all crash during install.

Im at work now but when I get home ill start testing hardware

It could be my USB 3.0 riser, it gave me issues on a P965. Its a PCIe 3.0 riser maybe it doesnt work right in the PCIe 1.0 slots

Interesting as Vista and 7 should have worked outright, I wouldn't be surprised if the usb 3 card is causing some grief.

10 is a non starter, no drivers :'(

You know, as long as you keep a good anti-virus on hand and browse safely XP is still perfectly viable for daily use. My advice is to use Firefox, seeing as how they seem to have no intention of abandoning XP any time soon (unlike Chrome)

candle_86 wrote:

10 is a non starter, no drivers :'(

In a pinch you can use ones meant for Vista or 7.

I speak from experience. You may have to disable windows update for drivers though, because on my 950GMA laptop it constantly wanted to "upgrade" to the basic driver instead of using the real driver meant for 7.

Sedrosken wrote:

candle_86 wrote:

10 is a non starter, no drivers :'(

In a pinch you can use ones meant for Vista or 7.

I speak from experience. You may have to disable windows update for drivers though, because on my 950GMA laptop it constantly wanted to "upgrade" to the basic driver instead of using the real driver meant for 7.

+1 also 8/8.1 as well! EDIT: You may have to install drivers with compatibility mode.

I'm just gonna use 7. Took out Usb 3 card and it's working great