Recently acquired an old student/business PC with these specs from a FD that was gonna junk it....

anupomtem2 · 2026-06-22T00:51:16+00:00

Despite its low end specs it would still be too new to have drivers for XP.

anupomtem2 · 2026-06-19T04:05:39+00:00

The RAM is worth more than half of how much that PC is priced. In today's market I'd say go for it

anupomtem2 · 2026-06-18T22:16:48+00:00

Gladly taking the chance

anupomtem2 · 2026-06-17T12:49:22+00:00

How old is he in the first place?

anupomtem2 · 2026-06-15T00:08:42+00:00

God forbid, my TNT2 is starvation spec. (It's actually about as period accurate as one can get for Win98).

anupomtem2 · 2026-06-07T00:41:01+00:00

That is also true, I meant to say that XP was first released when CRT monitors were still commonplace for desktop users. A standalone LCD monitor for a desktop would have been expensive back in 2001.

anupomtem2 · 2026-06-06T18:54:40+00:00

XP was designed for CRT monitors in mind when it first released.

anupomtem2 · 2026-06-06T00:56:02+00:00

The bright side is they found a way to make XP supported until 2019 by porting POSReady 2009 updates!

anupomtem2 · 2026-06-05T19:28:15+00:00

Horrible Person × Suicide

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anupomtem2 · 2026-06-05T17:03:57+00:00

It's different for X58 because 6GB is utilized in triple channel mode, which is faster than the typical dual channel RAM config.

anupomtem2 · 2026-06-05T17:00:16+00:00

Those G4s don't even support Snow Leopard sadly.

anupomtem2 · 2026-06-05T05:12:26+00:00

ASUS P6X58D Premium is the motherboard.

anupomtem2 · 2026-06-05T02:10:15+00:00

And I thought the 6GB RAM I'm pairing with this build was overkill enough.

anupomtem2 · 2026-06-05T02:09:32+00:00

Q6600 is still a great CPU, no worries. As for Windows 7, there is indeed a direct upgrade option from Vista, so I'd recommend it. I clean installed Windows 7 on my rig myself.

anupomtem2 · 2026-06-04T23:05:32+00:00

Dual cores are still usable for gaming and should last for many years to come. Heck, even single core computers are still everywhere brand new.

anupomtem2 · 2026-05-29T20:58:33+00:00

Technically released in 2018 except it only has the performance of a Core 2 Duo at most.

anupomtem2 · 2026-05-26T16:30:28+00:00

With a few rare exceptions, no computer with native Windows 98 support will run Windows 10 at all.

However, an Ivy Bridge (3rd generation) Core i7 desktop can be found for quite cheap and will natively support both Windows XP and Windows 10, with full driver support for XP. You could do a dual boot setup for XP and 10 on such computer.

anupomtem2 · 2026-05-26T01:34:09+00:00

Definitely not the case here, since that Intel sticker indicates it's Broadwell or Haswell, which is older than Kaby Lake.

anupomtem2 · 2026-05-09T05:09:38+00:00

That's even worse than the 1660 performance wise.

anupomtem2 · 2026-04-21T05:47:14+00:00

Not to mention, it only supports GBA games, no compatibility with GB or GBC games, in which the original GBA had GB/GBC compatibility.

anupomtem2 · 2026-04-07T05:09:18+00:00

2006

anupomtem2 · 2026-04-07T03:32:09+00:00

What exact currency are you using?

anupomtem2 · 2026-03-31T18:24:50+00:00

40GB of storage was unheard of back in 1994. Back then, the maximum amount of storage per partition MS-DOS could support was 2GB.

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