That's a Haswell board... that's one generation too new for simple, out of the box XP support. But there's plenty of documentation out there about how to get XP running on Haswells...

GPU-wise, you should be fine with the latest XP-friendly GPUs, including the Nvidia 7xx series, the AMD 7xxx, etc.

The PCIE x16 slot should connect directly to the CPU. If the board has a Haswell i3, 5, or 7, that slot should operate at 3.0 speeds.

I used a GeForce 750 Ti with my Haswell i5 (on a H97 board) , so I bet it would work with that board.

You'll need to slipstream SP3 onto the WinXP install disk. It should install properly on a H81 board. WinXP works just fine on my H97 board (now with an i7-4790k and a GeForce 980 Ti)

Cool, thanks peoples so it sounds like this board will make an okay WinXP build. I'm not looking for the best performance possible, just something usable for most late era XP games.

The other observation I will make - I don't know what things are like in Australia, but around here at least, more enthusiasty-flavoured ivy bridge or Haswell boards are extremely cheap and plentiful on the used market, often with 3570k/3770k/4570k/4770sks/etc already on them. So... if this board doesn't perfectly meet your needs, there are plenty of options if you wanted to get something else.

NovaCoder wrote on 2023-11-13, 01:21:

Cool, thanks peoples so it sounds like this board will make an okay WinXP build. I'm not looking for the best performance possible, just something usable for most late era XP games.

You can basically get the best performance possible out of this board - a higher-spec Haswell with a higher-end graphics card is pretty much the absolute highest you can go on XP...

What is your definition of late-era XP games? 2006-7? Or 2012-13? (Sorry, I was one of those crazy people who switched his main box to Vista in 2007, so I have absolutely no idea what 2011 games' OS dependencies might have been)

It will use any PCIe video card from a Titan Xp Pascal 2017 down because it isnt all that old a motherboard.
Its almost on the limit of being to new for XP.

VivienM wrote on 2023-11-13, 01:23:

NovaCoder wrote on 2023-11-13, 01:21:

Cool, thanks peoples so it sounds like this board will make an okay WinXP build. I'm not looking for the best performance possible, just something usable for most late era XP games.

You can basically get the best performance possible out of this board - a higher-spec Haswell with a higher-end graphics card is pretty much the absolute highest you can go on XP...

What is your definition of late-era XP games? 2006-7? Or 2012-13? (Sorry, I was one of those crazy people who switched his main box to Vista in 2007, so I have absolutely no idea what 2011 games' OS dependencies might have been)

yep say 2006-2008 I guess 😀

NovaCoder wrote on 2023-11-13, 00:55:

I've got no idea what memory or CPU but I assume it will be pretty low spec considering it was dumped...it does work though 😀

Nice find but Huh ? If it works it easy to see what cpu and ram are, it is on first or second page of the UEFI BIOS 😀 The fan being a Delta can work up to about a 70watt TDP cpu so it could be an i5 but most likely an i3.

yep had a look tonight, it's an i3 with 8gb of ram, running at 3k.