Building the Worlds Fastest Windows XP PC! The Overcompensater

In this video I built the fastest (officially supported) Windows XP PC! And it turned out great and has been so much fun to play with.
I know that this is not the fastest ever Windows XP machine, If I wanted to do that I could of gone x99 and get stuff to work but I wanted to keep it all officially supported hardware. So for the sake of the video, I'm going to call this build the fastest

LOL, I just realised that I misspelled the GTX Titan and said "Titian". Need to stop pulling overnighters working on these videos.

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FULL SYSTEM SPECS
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CPU: Intel Xeon e5-2697v2
Motherboard: ASUS P9-X79-WS
RAM: HyperX 32GB 1866MHz DDR3
GPU: 2x Geforce GTX TITAN Black (soon to be 4x)
OS: Windows XP x64 sp2

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MUSIC
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[AOFathy]

I’m just a simple man in my 30s watching my childhood fantasy become true

[quadraforest]

I think this build needs a Soundblaster X-FI Titanium. It's roughly the best sound card of that era and EAX was still pretty big for XP games.

[jasonsanders]

Save your money when it comes to 4 way sli on xp, there are no drivers that are available for XP with 4 way sli (Apart from the 7000 series dual GPU's such as the 7950gx2) This is due to the triple frame buffer limit in DX9

[tocansadovei]

I am really looking forward to see you show more of this PC doing all kinds of stuff with it like showcasing more games, showing how fast the PC is to use, seeing how much of this RAM you can use etc.

An Windows XP PC with 32 GB of RAM is just alien to me, it is such an interesting concept by itself.

[KomradeMikhail]

I'm glad you qualified this by saying only "officially supported" hardware, and that you want all the extra cores to try video rendering... Because you could manage to squeeze a tiny bit extra performance in gaming specifically, with a Haswell CPU and Maxwell GPU. But they require some very minor text edit hackery to get unsupported drivers working.

My ultimate XP rig has a Z87 mobo, a Pentium G3258 Anniversary (unlocked), and a Titan X (Maxwell).

Since most XP games can't even use more than two threads, you get better results with two extremely fast cores, for less overhead.
An i7 4790K with hyperthreading disabled, and two cores disabled, would give slightly better results... but they still cost ten times as much as a G3258.
And a Broadwell based i7 5775C would theoretically give the best results with it's L4 cache, but they require a rare Z97 mobo. And chipset drivers would likely require even more hacking.

[milkchantester]

Hey, thanks for the clip for Windows XP x64.
yours
I cried very hard. I've never seen anyone make Windows XP x64 as awesome as you.
I am the creator of UpdatePacks for Windows XP/Server 2003.
x86/x64 (5eraph UpdatePacks - OnePiece UpdatePacks)
I hope I can build a Windows XP x64 computer one day like yours.

[oraj]

I really need to stop watching your videos. They make me want to spend wayyy too much money on a 4th XP machine.

[garfleid]

You should do this video but with DOS lmao

[GeterPreen]

holy shit i havent found anyone else vibing to Vector Graphics in a long time. good vibes and sick build my dude.

[starpie-art]

Man, I love your videos! And the fact that you always show your Astolfo figure 😸

[nono-ozgv]

"you NEED to work" while holding a core component is the realest thing ive seen all week

[asdflolasdf]

Really enjoyed this, the music the commentary the subject matter and of course the trial and error are what keep me coming back

[HarisLinuxOSprofile]

I dont know if it was mentioned, but by default installing XP on an SSD will not get an alligned partition which will wear out the SSD way faster and cause slower pefrormance. To solve this, connect the ssd to a windows vista+ machine, create the partition there and then install XP on that partition created. Otherwise, connect the SSD to another PC, run minitool partition wizard and allign the partition.
Remember me, the IO performance will improve drastically.

[mr.electronx]

"Can i go onto BIOS?"
Chinesee MOBO: 不，谢谢

[newton]

im watching on a gtx titan x and an e5-2687w v2 (among other cool hardware), im very glad someone has made a video about this class of xp x64 machine :)

[GUCFan]

These videos have sent me down a rabbit hole, started my XP rig with a old Vista era HP SFF PC and now i'm up to a Thinkcentre M73 with 4th gen Core i5

[brianirons]

this video just made me smile ear to ear, I've encountered all the same issues you did with that specific power supply, when i built my Over kill Socket 775 Machine

[bhume]

The Enthoo Pro is such a goated case. It's been my main PCs case for the past few years.

[tesco-cs]

There was something so brilliant about Windows XP, i miss my childhood on counter-strike 1.6. This was my machine specs from 2004-2009 "Windows XP, Pentium 4 3.0ghz, 1gb ram, gtx 440 fx (i think).. Had the best times ever. The thing i miss the most was the download screen/box with the loading bar in the middle..

[segelmp]

Nice build man! I'm working on something somewhat similar and glad to see I'm not the only one afflicted with this bug!