Bought these (retro) hardware today

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Reply 58700 of 58702, by TheAbandonwareGuy

Posted on Today, 16:10

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Bought a i7 4700mq + GTX780M laptop with 32GB RAM and a 500GB SSD for $178 shipped with AC adapter.

My thought is this should be a great XP + 7 dual boot. I may even be able to tri-boot XP + 7 + 10 LTSC.

GTX 700, much as GeForceFX was the break away point for legacy DX6 graphics, is the break away point for 9.0c and XP era graphics in many ways. Its the last GPU to support CSAA and a few other technologies. Also the last series of GPUs to have proper Windows XP driver support.

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Reply 58701 of 58702, by MattRocks

Posted on Today, 16:19

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CSAA was introduced with GeForce G80 and DX10?

Reply 58702 of 58702, by MattRocks

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MattRocks wrote on 2026-04-02, 11:22:

The 300W Mercury PSU might be suitable for my i430TX.

BANG!

No, that Mercury 300W PSU is not going onto my i430TX after all. It literally exploded and black smoke came out. Wow.. I really didn't have much luck at all with that mystery box.

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