Is it foolish to build an Ivy Bridge Gaming PC now?

vijay_001

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The reason for building an Ivy Bridge is this -

1. Ivy Bridge motherboards are the last ones to support Windows XP.
2. There are many older games that only run in Windows XP and do not run in 7 or 10.
3. I do not know how the Windows XP mode works in Windows 7 (even though I have installed it)

So in order to play those older games, I need Windows XP Operating system supported PC.

Should I build an Ivy Bridge PC or should I purchase a 2nd hand/used laptop/desktop and use it for gaming?

I have a emachine e725 laptop with XP but those games don't run very well.
I recently built a skylake build (it too doesn't supprt XP).

So what should I do?
 
Solution
Just buy a used Core 2 Duo PC.
They are selling very cheap now.
Ivybridge is really overkill for Windows XP.
Such old Operating System might not take full advantage of modern hardware properly.