First post, by Almoststew1990
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Today I tried building a basic XP PC for a few games I wanted to play: Rise of Nations, Halo, Mace Griffin Bounty Hunter (no idea what this is yet), Empire Earth 2....
I wanted something compact. My usual go-to M-ATX 775 and E8500 combo sadly has died (this is the very first "retro" motherboard I bought, so F in chat for this board). I then went for an AM2 Athlon II x3 board but this was really quite loud and hot and has a weird intermittent USB issue, so that build was canned to. Then I moved onto a Socket 939 Athlon 3200+ which was going fine (and nice and quiet using the same modern cooler as the AM2 system, weirdly) but had a very not intermittent USB problem where no usb ports or front panel usb ports would work once I installed various chipset drivers. Both AMD boards with USB issues used Nvidia chipsets coincidentally...
Anyway I considered my Pentium 4 build but couldn't get up the enthusiasm to do a fully IDE build and threw a big sulk and I haven't played anything at all this evening...
ANYWAY
I realised I have quite a mix of AMD and Intel boards (plus 1 fully VIA board).
AMD:
386SX 40
DX2-80
Socket 939
AM2
FM2
Ryzen 2600X
Main PC (3700X)
Intel:
Slot 1
Socket 478
Socket 775 x2
1156 with an i7 860
1155 with some kind of i3
Does your collection tend to be more intel or AMD based?