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My old PC with XP(rehistoric OS) became my Air Gaped Juke Box with a 1TB HDD and optical Dr. The MB has shorted out and now I need a new MB for it.

What MB's would suit XP ?
Nice to have the following: USB3 - SSD for the OS
- spare GTX760 . is it possible? AND probably a good built in Stereo Amp
Any good ideas appreciated

ADDED:
discovered rapid varying pitch clicking noise during BOOT up, not HDD but controller? somewhere by RAM slots , caused by keyboard pulling down over years and breaking MB tracers and when lifting cable, the keyboard kicks into life (tgf backlit keyboard from 2006) and things seem OK'ish but I have to fix a "Media Test Failure Check Cable". something broke so think a semi upgrade is due.

PARTS:
HDD WD black 1TB wd1002faex (originally had a 410MB ! those were the days of massive drivers )
Optical Drive NEC DVD-RW ND-3540A (connectors maybe old school so $40 will fix that)
RAM (new) but XP maxes out at 3GB so that will be the cheap part to buy
PSU OCZ modstream 420W has silver braided sleeving !! never seem anything like it since but have a spare ZALMAN 750W.
GPU ASUS GTX760 Just done upgrade on my work station PC .. ... .. my bad, I meant Gaming PC
HDD Heat Pipe Cooler. honestly this thing is looks Steam Punked from hell
PC case is 100% UV reactive acrylic so a little RGB will look nuts .. ... .. . think thats it :)
 
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Anything from earlier than about 2010 will certainly have drivers. You are just going to have to go ebay shopping.

Since you didn't list any relevant hardware it isn't possible to make a recommendation.
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If you're using it as a juke box why not take up raspberry pi? It uses little electricity and can do whatever you need.

Btw USB3? Yeah you're not finding a board with USB3 that will work with XP. The GTX 760 may not work with it either.
 
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Looks like there is still a driver for the GTX760 for XP at least. Not too out of date either.

I suspect it will work in a board with a PCIe 1.1 slot, 1.0 might be pushing it as boards from that era had power delivery issues through the slot.

Still, would need to know the CPU to pick out a suitable board.
 
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you meaning 2010 and earlier or from 2010 and more modern? and did'n't list too detailed in case it was silly idea plus it was 2am :O will add comment for pts.
 
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I see the reason Intel makes i3's now. Sounds good
 
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i3's make good low end office or general systems.
My wifes system is an i3-8100, 8GB RAM, integrated graphics. Facebook, email, MS Office...no problem at all.
It would easily serve as a jukebox/HTPC.

Not every box has to achieve max FPS, or manipulate a billion row database.
 
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like the idea but I want to keep the ATX acrylic case and it may look proportionally out of wack abit.
 
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Intel i3-**** CPU that can run the GTX 760 (I do play Music Videos too) and runs XP starting to sound like a HotRod.
Once it's setup n going, it's air gaped.

Would like OS on SSD to boot from IF thats possible on XP. 5 minute boot ups are so nostalgic and PAINful
 
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Looks like its out with the Welder and Duck Tape and maybe a Staple Gun 🙁

What IF I use windows 8.1 (or 10 ?? 🙁 ) I just happen to have it sitting somewhere. . oh no, looks like a rebuild

NB this PC is Air Gaped so I'm thinking that 10 won't work, is it possible to work with 10??
 
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Anyone know how to get the folder off the HDD if it goes into a new system as the old XP OS is on it? I have tried hot swapping with my work station but having ones having an OS on them just don't seem to open.
 
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Which folder?

Don't 'hot swap'. Just connect it as a secondary drive, and it should appear as another drive letter.

A USB drive dock is especially handy for this type of thing.
 
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OK I will try that later today. I have done it to other drives though in the past with OS's on them and no luck but they could just be dead drives.

 
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XP will work on ssds just fine (there's tools to TRIM it if you so desire)
There's plenty of XP compatible motherboards that have functional USB3
 
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Any motherboard with an Intel USB 3.0 controller will not run those ports with XP. Asmedia and others do have them floating around. But again many current chipsets won't work with XP either due to lack of drivers.
 
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Yes. even if you get an intel controller board thats otherwise compatible, USB3.0 pcie cards are very cheap

BTW someone got Sabretooth X99 working with XP x64:
https://msfn.org/board/topic/177701-xp-x64-sabertooth-x99-drivers-re-uploaded/

 
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Yes, clearly as I indicated when I said other brands do work. So again to spend more money to get USB 3.0 running on an ancient operating system. OP is also clearly not looking to use an expensive X99 motherboard to do this. Show me people getting low end Skylake boards then sure.

The point here is its a lot of work using buggy drivers written by 3rd party people to solve a problem that should not be complicated at all. Literally a network conncted hard drive could do the same thing with 0 work.
 
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My point was not to get him to get that mobo. I was just proving a point that there's some mobos out there later than 2010 that work.

And, USAFRet, it's fully functional, actually. And why? because some people like XP whether or not someone tells them it's ancient.
 
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XP was great, a classic even. But Ancient is used to describe the fact that other than nostalgia or running old programs that won't work on anything new on an air gapped system, it has no place in todays computing world. Its massive security holes and exploits mean you should never connect it to the internet.

Hey if you like to tinker and play with it, its like driving an old classic car, its great for a hobby or whatnot. But to put it into use trying to make modern hardware work with it, and to have to spend more to get it to work, is a waste of time and money.
 
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That's exactly what I do with it. Use the internet with Windows XP (4 years since EOL, no viruses yet, My secret is not downloading random things and not visiting shady websites) and push the limits of what hardware it can run on and what it can do. I just wish someone on an old version of windows on this forum wouldn't get bashed so much about it. If they obviously have no clue what they're doing, Politely suggesting a newer OS is good, even recommended. But I wish people wouldn't be so harsh about it. But there's times when they seem to have a general technical know-how and want to use XP and they get bashed anyway.
My 2¢ only, of course.

I will stop talking now as it's OT.

 
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