Im getting together some parts to make an ultimate XP box like this, and Im trying to set the rule of only use officially supported parts, but the CPU is allways a point of contention, while common consensus is that the 3rd gen intel is the last to offciially support, others say 4th gen, I have a i7 4th gen that works perfectly

RetroBus wrote on 2025-10-06, 02:36:

Im getting together some parts to make an ultimate XP box like this, and Im trying to set the rule of only use officially supported parts, but the CPU is allways a point of contention, while common consensus is that the 3rd gen intel is the last to offciially support, others say 4th gen, I have a i7 4th gen that works perfectly

I use an i7-4790k in my XP machine.

Just curious Shponglefan, but would you be able to list the games and programs you've been able to run without any issues on this system? Like, what are the oldest games, or games that tend to not work properly on Windows 10\11?

Also, if you've run into issues with certain games, can you give a quick rundown of which games and what the problems were?

No rush of course, it'd just be interesting to have some more data on this since I'm sure a lot of maxed out XP builds will share a lot of specs with yours.

Ozzuneoj wrote on 2025-10-06, 02:48:

Just curious Shponglefan, but would you be able to list the games and programs you've been able to run without any issues on this system?

I'm using a similar system, and I have listed the games that ran well on it in this post.

Most of these I've played from start to finish on that rig.

Hans Tork wrote on 2025-10-05, 17:07:

I am using the 368 version as it is an easy download from Phil`s website and does not need any tinkering with the files. Does the 355 have any benefit over the 368 driver.

I got away with simply taking the modded file nv4_dispi.inf from the 368 version and dropping it into the 355 version.