Living in the past

oldboaters · Mar 16, 2018

I'm looking for a new desktop that will support XP and Win7. I need legacy support for XP for a antiquated and not supported anymore document management system that only runs on XP or Win 7 32 bit. I would like to also have GPU support for my Samsung 4K monitors. What would u suggest?

Wolfshadw · Mar 16, 2018

I'd suggest running Windows XP and Windows 7 32-bit as virtual machines.

-Wolf sends

captaincharisma · Mar 16, 2018

agreed. since this is for an old program it would be best to run both as a virtual machine using either VM player or virtualbox. programs like the one you are looking to use run fine in a virtual machine

BFG-9000 · Mar 16, 2018

Fastest possible fully supported XP system is Sandy Bridge Z67 2700k (Ivy Bridge 3770k works too as long as not using the IGP).
Note that Z77 chipsets also work--but need Fernando's AHCI driver (anything newer has USB 3.0 issues). If you are willing to use that, then the absolute fastest possible would be X79 S2011 system with Sandy Bridge-E 3970x or Ivy Bridge-E 4960x 6-core with HT.

Fastest cards in XP are Kepler 2880 shader Titan Black 6GB or 780Ti 3GB. A bit slower is plain 2688 shader Titan 6GB but these are all overkill. Same pixel fillrate as 960 but more than double the shaders, texturing and memory bandwidth. The 960 is probably best for non-gaming usage as it can even hardware accelerate H.265 and VP9 in 4k, something those Titans can't. And nothing newer has XP drivers.

If you have any excess RAM >4GB it can easily be turned into a ramdisk in XP with free Gavotte RAMDisk, and you can even put the pagefile on it! I had less luck with freeware ramdisks in Win7-x86 but such a system can easily run Win7-64 and Win10-64.

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