Some places you'll find a very heavy AMD presence, others Intel. Power delivery was always an issue for them, especially when you ran into the cheaper boards.Īgain it all comes down to location, location, location. AM3 and AM3+ was kind of a middle ground, not great and not fantastic. The older S939 was great for the Athlon 64 era but AM2 and AM2+ I always had huge issues. Phenoms and their ilk are great, they're tough and reliable. A quick search on Kijiji can find multiple cheap sources of simple Core2 combos that will run perfectly fine. Where I am Core2s are like locust, they're everywhere. Plus AM3+ is backwards compatible with AM3 if that's needed. I'd recommend an AM3 machine like phenom II since there's way more inexpensive boards available and the performance is better. I recommend against Core 2 machines these days because the mobos are becoming much harder to find working and are insanely expensive for what they are. Anything 750 Ti will most likely not require external PCIe power connector. You can go as low as an Radeon 6850 or Geforce GTX 465 and get 120-200+ FPS on Farcry. Anything past that was really designed to take advantage of Windows 7 features and started to drop support of DX9, EAX, etc.
I believe had EAX support so it is best on XP but mostly played in Windows 7.
Anything higher is a real waste of moneyĪfter much testing I stick with Farcry as the last game to play on XP. I have an R9 270 (270x is the last supported AMD card for XP) and a low-profile 750 Ti, both have DP, HDMI and DVI. Video card wise, I try to keep with something that has DisplayPort for the future. So I went the extreme route, mostly because my older Windows 7 build is still good with XP.ĨGB DDR3 1333 6-6-6-18 (plan on dual booting with Win7/Linux plus I spent a lot of time and money finding DDR3 that fast) I have an old Athlon 64 socket 939 still new in box, and I was thinking about putting a build together.Ī retro Win XP box that can play all the classic games of that era. I've also been meddling around with this same idea! I don't have a price in mind rn as I'm just looking into it but as it's for much older games I'm not looking to spend a lot of money.Īn idea of some games I'd be looking to play: Birth of the Federation, Starship Creator, The Movies, Black & White, Gangsters. What are your thoughts? Is the core 2 quad a decent cpu for WinXP (and compatibility mode) gaming? I'm guessing 4gb ram should be decent enough? And what would you suggest as a suitable GPU? I will need a graphics card with a HDMI out as my capture box (avermedia lgplite) has HDMI pass through.
I'm looking at core 2 quad machines and from what I've seen in a quick search it looks like I might need to buy a graphics card to give my games the best chance at running well. So I'm looking at getting an older PC up and running to play some older games and I'd like some advice.
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