cyclone3d wrote on 2022-07-13, 04:09:
TrashPanda wrote on 2022-07-13, 03:53:
darry wrote on 2022-07-13, 01:44:
It'll grow (back) on you. It's still too new. 😉
I used to despise Pentium 4 CPUs, but they've somehow grown on me, not unlike a fungus inside one's unmentionables (likely a very similar feeling, actually, expect antifungals do zilch for Pentium 4 CPUs, except maybe as a makeshift thermal compound).
I like the late model 775 Pentium4's CeadarMill is not bad for retro gaming XP setups if you can find one of the Asrock AGP/PCIe hybrid boards and it being a die shrunk Presshot Extreme the heat CM produces is considerably less than previous models.
But why use a P4 on a board that can run a Core2 based chip?
My reasons to do just that with my current XP machine:
- To me personally XP era was single core and the late multicore XP era doesn't really exist, when I upgraded from AXP 3200+ to Intel Q9500 I'm pretty sure Windows 7 was already out and I migrated to it immediately. So what's C2D XP era to others is early Win7 era to me and with Win7 there's no reason not to go directly Sandy Bridge+
- Games that interest me started to disappear at alarming rate around 2006-2007 just when C2D started to come out, the seventh console generation era was awful as far as I'm concerned
- I also don't play games at 1600x1200 AA maxed out, so I don't need overpowered builds. I like to play 1999-2006 games at 1024x768 or 1280x960, my nostalgia glasses smooth out the jaggies like no other algorithm!
I still deliberately got boards that support C2D just in case, at least I got the option even if I don't see myself needing it currently.
Edit: Q9550, not Q9500 and I must have used Windows XP for about an year before I migrated to Windows 7. Welp. I blame the lack of games I liked around that time, still played the same old games as before.