Building the absolute fastest Computer - But Compatible with 32-bit Windows XP!

[Guest]

If I ever win the lottery I am going to build this system. It's always been my dream to build the fastest computer possible for Windows XP. So, what do you think? I know the RAM is overkill in capacity but I wonder what 4x1GB Kit would work for quad channel? I couldn't find any. The next most powerful options would be socket 1155 or AM3+ with a 780ti. It's too bad they didn't release any XP drivers for 1150, because LGA 2011 is expensive! LOL!

Motherboard: AsRock Fatal1ty X79 Professional

Sound Card: Creative Sound Blaster Audigy RX 7.1 PCIe Sound Card with 600 ohm Headphone Amp

CPU: i7-4960X

CPU Cooler: Cooler Master V8 GTS

RAM: G.SKILL Trident X Series 16GB (4 x 4GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 2666 (PC3 21300) Desktop Memory Model F3-2666C11Q-16GTXD

Video Card 1: EVGA GeForce GTX TITAN BLACK Superclocked Signature P/N: 06G-P4-3793-KR

Case: Cooler Master CM Storm Scout 2 Advanced - Gaming ATX Mid Tower Computer Case

Hard Drives: 6x Seagate Constellation ES.3 ST2000NM0033 2TB 7200 RPM 128MB Cache SATA 6.0Gb/s 3.5"

SSD Drive: 2x SAMSUNG 850 EVO-Series MZ-75E1T0B/AM 2.5" 1TB SATA III 3-D Vertical Internal Solid State Drive

Optical Drive: LG Black 16x Blu-Ray BDXL SATA Internal rewriter with 3D Playback, Model BH16NS40

Power Supply: SILVERSTONE Strider SST-ST70F-TI 700W ATX12V / EPS12V 80 PLUS TITANIUM certified Full Modular Active PFC Power Supply

 

[basroil]

Not possible, there are no compatible drivers for most of your components. You would be stupid as hell to use XP in this day and age anyway. Instead, consider virtualization for your XP needs and stick to Win 10 for the host OS

 

[Guest]

Not possible, there are no compatible drivers for most of your components. You would be stupid as hell to use XP in this day and age anyway. Instead, consider virtualization for your XP needs and stick to Win 10 for the host OS

I should have mentioned it would be for offline XP gaming use mostly. I can always dual boot XP and another version of Windows if I wanted with this setup. Virtualization is out of the question. I tried it before, it doesn't work good. You're wrong about the drivers, they are so easily available for this setup I barely even had to look around.

 

[basroil]

I should have mentioned it would be for offline XP gaming use mostly. I can always dual boot XP and another version of Windows if I wanted with this setup. Virtualization is out of the question. I tried it before, it doesn't work good. You're wrong about the drivers, they are so easily available for this setup I barely even had to look around.

Most games no longer support XP, and XP doesn't natively support SSDs (TRIM). It's a bad idea. As for virtualization, you clearly have never tried virtualization in Win 10 1511. They added RemoteFX so now things actually run on hardware rather than software.

Unless you have professional software needs, XP is just a dumb move.

 

[Guest]

Yeah, what a stupid idea and a waste of money and hardware! As if I could even find those parts. I'll just upgrade to Windows 10 like everyone else. I'm sure Windows XP virtualization will work perfectly on new skylake hardware with no problems at all.

 

[basroil]

Yeah, what a stupid idea and a waste of money and hardware! As if I could even find those parts. I'll just upgrade to Windows 10 like everyone else. I'm sure Windows XP virtualization will work perfectly on new skylake hardware with no problems at all.

Most games don't have any issues with 10, the few that do aren't that good to begin with! Hell, I regularly play Win 95 games on my Win 10 machine, so most likely you'll be fine

 

[Outlander_04]

There is no way 32 bit XP will ever be able to use more than 3.2 gig of RAM , no matter if its in quad channel , hex channel , or a billion channels .