First post, by Simmerhead
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Hi there. Hard to imagine, but Windows XP and Windows 7 are becoming the new vintage platforms for gaming. I must be getting old...
Today I have accumulated quite a few systems from various generations of Intel's Core series, however I need to downsize and will be trying to build two "new" mini-ITX systems, one for Windows XP and one for Windows 7.
I'm now running two midi tower systems: Win XP with Intel i5-2500K + GeForce GTX 750 - & - Win 7 with Intel i7-2600K + GeForce GTX 980. Works great, but they take up too much space with all my other systems for DOS, Windows 3/95, Windows 98 and Windows Me. The latter are hard to downsize as mini-ITX wasn't a thing back then, so no chance of downsizing that collection, but it should be possible with newer systems.
- sorry for the long rant -
So, does anyone have knowledge about what's the newest generation of hardware (CPU + Mobo + GPU) you can use with Windows XP 32 bit and Windows 7 64 bit? I've been trying to read up on it via Google, but finding so much conflicting advice.
Thanks for any hints, tips, ideas and hardware recommendations.
Simmerhead - Old is gold!