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.
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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[@AOFathy]

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

[@brawldude2656]

Take my like

[@Edward135i]

Same, this guy swears like me at that age as well.

[@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.

[@anonamouse5917]

Soundblaster X-FI Elite Pro rules them all.

[@SolSeal]

The Rx gaming version also has eax support and it’s newer.

[@computercloset6165]

Watching this video on my XP machine (with an X-FI Titanium), as I read this comment haha!

[@BenState]

Titanium came out in 2008 which is a Vista era card. The X-Fi fataility was the best of the XP generation with 64MB of ram vs the Titanium's 16MB.

[@BenState]

@@anonamouse5917 Significantly higher SNR than any card after it. So no.

[@garfleid2773]

You should do this video but with DOS lmao

[@JulietKilo-X86]

May I introduce the Rasteris the RETRO ROCKET

[@brawldude2656]

lmaoo DOS - THE FUTURE OF GAMING

[@mr.electronx9036]

he would fail in the first 10 seconds lol

[@ndebele100]

@@mr.electronx9036 DOS with 32gb mem and 1To m2 :D lul

[@videogamer9678]

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="370">6:10</a> Shit in a plastic fucking trash bag got me dying 🤣 Edit: Should I make a vid where every time he says the f word and its a little funny

[@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.

[@randomgamingin144p]

my main pc has an i7 4790 cuz its just an old dell optiplex that came with one, the optiplex cost 50 australian dollars as a total which was pretty cheap

[@milkchantester6132]

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.

[@tennickjestzajety69]

hey, I am currently using XP x64 as "daily" (2-3 times a week) since Christmas. 4 long months without problems with integrated yours packs into my setup (thank you!). Works flawlessly with i5 Sandy and 16 GB of memory even today! I am planning to upgrade to Maxwell GPU soon, because I have only Fermi rn :)

[@phenom957]

I've had x64 XP for a long time myself but never had a system dedicated to it, that changes this year. Your work, along with the others has been instrumental in streamlining installations and getting these incredible software working on more modern systems. Thanks for all the work!

[@milkchantester6132]

@@phenom957 thx bro i love xp forever

[@milkchantester6132]

@@tennickjestzajety69 rhx

[@maxi40789]

Thanks for any post mortem update

[@jasonsanders1244]

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

[@RobloxianX]

What about 3 way SLI? Also, what about the Titan Z? Could you run two of those and get 4 way SLI? Just curious

[@jasonsanders1244]

@@RobloxianX it's a limit on the amount of GPU cores, so makes no difference if you are running 2 cards with 2 GPUs on them or 4 cards with 1 GPU on them. 3 way sli was never implemented on Windows XP

[@RobloxianX]

@@jasonsanders1244 Alright, I am making a list of the fastest PC configs with each OS and this helped! For XP i'll just put 1x TITAN Z/2x TITAN BLACK

[@RobloxianX]

@@jasonsanders1244 I guess, 2 more questions I have is: Can Windows Vista go to 4 way SLI with the GTX Titan X Maxwell, and can Windows 7 work with the 3090 Ti in SLI? Both for the list im making right now (Asking for the officially supported answer obv)

[@jasonsanders1244]

@@RobloxianX not tried 4 way Maxwell Titan on Vista but I am running 3 way without issue. Not tried 3090s in sli on 7, but I can't think of any technical reason why not (unless there is a limitation in the driver)

[@ora2j251]

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

[@TRM_889]

Real

[@SaviorSen_]

a *4th?*

[@TRM_889]

The fact that you have 4 xp machines is crazy

[@weelebaseknowles4410]

I got a cheap dell pre build and a gt 730 I think that good enough

[@energygameplay6513]

Why 4 Me personally i use a pretty badass dualboot machine It has i7 3770 with higmatek windpower 930 cooler runs cpu at 4ghz 8gb ram 2x4 480 gb kingston a400 ssd has wijdoss xp and 10on it (thats why i even got 8gb sijxe i use32 bit winxp 2tb hdd Gigabyte z68 xpud3p 650ti 1gb (yes gpu is bit weak )

[@burrfoottopknot]

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

[@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!

[@FemboyTails]

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

[@ILostMyOreos]

I love how i get to relive all of your troubleshooting hell haha. Good stuff

[@Tales541]

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.

[@taki69]

i agree with said assertion

[@newton8096]

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 :)

[@nightcatgamer236]

This video helped me figure out what the heck was the power cycling issue with my pc. It was the exact same as yours, except on a sigle gpu. Thanks a lot bro!

[@someone69420klh]

It's always a good day when you post

[@Landjrin]

Thanks for this video, legit made me realize that the Dell Poweredge im running has a Gen1 Xeon in it and I could really use an upgrade.

[@bhume7535]

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

[@Hanzzaki]

XP is still one of my favorite operating systems

[@tyler_dtm]

This was very interesting, bro) keep it up, subbed)

[@CaptainOctavian7482]

Even if I didn’t see the Linux statue I could tell you were a Linux user from the astolfo figurine. Jokes aside really interesting video man, would love to see more!

[@oskar2727]

Astolfo and Tux? Ah, I see you're a man of culture as well. Awesome video

[@imribiy]

Great build and great video! A high end CRT monitor would take this build to another level

[@DanielCardei]

Insane Xp machine! Well done 👍

[@mrmcguru163]

Dude your fin awesome! The attention to detail is amazing using 64bit was genious, I would do the exact thing! I built a ultimate PRE 7 vista build so almost all 2009 HW, also thank you for using supermium I'm personal friends with the Dev so ill let him know you use it, he apperaits every user, if you can message on something I can invite you to a server hes in

[@myBacau]

gtx 980ti and Titan X macwell are the fastest gpus with xp supported drivers.

[@Ionic1k]

I looked at this, while you can get drivers for those cards they are not official. I wanted to keep this build all officially supported hardware.

[@Wasmachineman]

980 TIs and Titan XMs have AWFUL VRMs though, unless you go with the 980 Ti KPE.

[@hupert9421]

​@@WasmachinemanThat doesn't matter at all...

[@Wasmachineman]

@@hupert9421 Haha, yeah, until your card blows at stock clocks.

[@arnox4554]

@@Wasmachineman Admittedly, this is very anecdotal, but I used to daily drive a Titan X and I never had an issue. Worked and boosted super well.

[@benjaminwirth5192]

Cool idea, one of my dreams too. 👍

[@sirlanceem]

eyy nice build. I also use the enthoo pro... but for my main rig!

[@TomRevill]

Fun video! Subscribed.

[@nono-oz4gv]

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

[@zeroresistance7203]

you make me more confident that i can bit abit more relentless when building my computers xD

[@stevenbaranello]

you could have put a 4960x on that motherboard and overclocked it to 4.4ghz, i used to work for a company that used a custom version of that motherboard basically same board but had IPMI built-in, and that board was SOLID and could handle bringing the CPU to 4.4GHZ all cores, and theoretically you could even get a bit more from the 3960x, we used to OC it to 4.5GHZ IIRC. obviously you needed serious cooling, but in 2015 we had that mounted in RACKMOUNT chassis and running a custom closed loop AIO. we unfortunately had to turn OFF HT, but let me tell you, if you needed single core performance, we had a OC profile that would get the i7-3960x to 4.8GHZ on 2 cores and on 2133mhz ram

[@Pasi123]

Or he could get the overclockable 8c/16t Xeon E5-1680v2 which for some reason never got an i7 version

[@stevenbaranello]

@@Pasi123 they couldn't overclock very well at the end. as the cpus became closer to end of life, the binnings got worse. VIDs were too high on them.

[@virtualtools_3021]

@@Pasi123 that chip is a beast but blows motherboard vrms in my experience, i even managed to melt a sabertooth x79's eps connector with that chip, cpu is still fine tho lol

[@v4kira]

I really did enjoy this video ngl

[@phenom957]

Ooooh, this is very similar to what I'm building now, same CPU, just with 64GB of ECC DDR3-1600, the P9-X79-E WS motherboard.. Exciting video! Long live XP!

[@Macazian]

@phenom957 see my comment in thread for updating bios if you have to! E.g. There is a USB Bios flashback button on this board.

[@user-ir2sy9ut1e]

I Like Windows XP Too!

[@TwongiTwingo]

where is the editing part! I waited it ahah. good vid btw

[@thefattmish]

Great video. Fun to watch. One little mistake to mention: TITAN not TITIAN, but we get what you mean. Keep this kind of content coming.

[@CheapSushi]

Love the X79 and X99 era of hardware. I actually have a Titan Black I don't use and it has a Raijintek Morpheus heatsink swap on it. Sometimes when using an old board that doesn't boot, I noticed the first thing I do is put in a brand new coin battery. Surprisingly, that can make it not boot properly. But man, trouble shooting used parts is definitely a pain and part of the fun of these older builds. On one board I noticed there was one slightly bent pin and that was enough for the CPU not to post. On another finding out a RAM slot doesn't work was also torturous fun. Haha. My favorite X79 board is the ASROCK Extreme11. I was using it with a Xeon E5-1680V2 multiplier overclocked.

[@DanIsNotHome]

The algorithm brought me here. Great video!

[@fxhr_]

one of the upsides of using XP, NO UNNECESSARY BLOATS RUNNING IN BACKGROUND which means you're really gettin that max performance but hell yea great video; you earn my sub❤

[@ROROCLASH]

great video ! thanks you

[@FIIIIIIP]

I remember getting a brand new Athlon 64 3500+ with XP 64bit and no game wanted to work with it at the time except Far Cry with the 64bit patch.

[@XH6]

this build is insane even for modern computing

[@bigearsinc.7201]

Hey! The PC case you used for this rig is the same I use for my main rig. I like acrylic side panels because I don't have to worry about glass shattering in transport.

[@ozzymandayos2290]

Dope vid man :)

[@mrhmmm.]

bingus would not approve the OD

[@Holycurative9610]

This XP build took me back to when I ran XP on a Packard Bell prebuilt with no graphics card but I did have Encarta Encyclopedia and some helicopter war game pre-installed though.

[@sub-zero-kitty]

i love astolfo on your desk

[@oxyruby]

YESSS A NEW VIDEOOO

[@InsertOwO]

i litterally wasnt born when windows xp released but i love watching these videos, also, Astolfo :3

[@fennecRBX]

pentium 4 build in modern case when jokes aside, great video!

[@uisebastian8799]

This is super cool. I plan on doing a very similar build as with a sabertooth x79 board I got for 50$ the same cpu 64 gbs of ram but instead of titan blacks I'm going to do 2 way sli titan x's since I got one for 65$ a while back.

[@danthompsett2894]

i remmember windows xp 64bit being pretty prototype and janky, so good job getting it working. Also FarCry 2 is renowned for having problems running so that was a surprise that you choice that as the first test. Rise and Shadow of the Tomb Raider supports SLi even at the DX12 level not sure if they would run on windows Xp though, looks a bit tight to 4 cards in there, looks like you might only be able to fit 3 unless you somehow turn the cards into single slot stead of double slot cards.

[@teets3000]

can't wait to see the daily drive vid

[@Mantrevouir]

i love that astolfo modell

[@SK91NO]

Misaki wallpaper? Very based

[@SilentdragonDe]

For ultimate performance on the X79 platform, you'll want to go with the Xeon E5-1680V2. It's only got 8 cores, *but* an unlocked multiplier and they have widely been reported to be binned really well, meaning that they should overclock really well. I have two of them, one running on the exact board you have, and they both do 4.5 GHz, which makes them considerably faster than the 12-core. The CPU is actually kinda interesting, since as far as I can tell it was never officially sold to consumers, and the only computer that ever had them seems to be the trashcan Mac Pros. Still, there's plenty of them on eBay.

[@ronjatter]

this

[@iP1sano]

You should look into unlocking the turbo boost, not sure about the difference in-game but it will help a lot in multi-threaded scenarios. Also, if you plan into using the machine long term you'll need a way to TRIM that SSD. I know old Samsung SSDs have a Windows XP software that takes care of that, if you have something like an 870 or potentially even older laying around.

[@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..

[@TRM_889]

This thing is sick! I wish I had the money and space to build one. Honestly, I have been itching to use windows XP for a while. VM's are to laggy and XP always crashes with the VM's I make. I have two older computers right now. A Dell Inspiron 8000 and a HP Pavilion DV7. The 8000 I have is currently running windows 2000, however, it locked me out so I don't have access to it right now. I will need to re-install windows. The DV7 I daily drive as a secondary computer. If I don't feel like using my main computer, I will switch to the DV7. I think I'm going to put XP on the 8000 just so I have an XP machine.

[@nuherbleath461]

This reminds me of the fastest officially supported windows 98 pc by mattkc

[@insertnamehere6559]

Yooo is that one of those SEGA figures? I've been looking at the Atalanta one for ages. Fate merch is always expensive as hell but if it looks as good as your Astolfo I might pull the trigger

[@BrunodeSouzaLino]

One thing you should be careful with modular power supplies is there are no standardized pinouts for the end that plugs on the PSU, so you should only use the cables which are shipped with it as pinouts can be different across different models from the same line.

[@kevosfilms5843]

That's a really good PC case. I made a video of me building my 4090 build. That case is indestructible

[@telotawa]

yeaaah you gotta be real careful with power supply cables, good to see nothing broke(? maybe?)

[@mr.electronx9036]

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

[@ufacilb6911]

Now think of having this machine back in 2001 - woof😮

[@stormz-]

Great vid, I'm just curious what would of happened if you dumped the bios of the titan black and flashed it into the other titan. It could work since titan black is just higher core clock

[@Jake__LV]

This is genuinely better than my gaming pc, sure this xp pc may be slower in some regards but 2 gpus!! 12 cores!! 32gb ram!!

[@Evilhaven22]

not only you build a really ultimate Windows XP PC but you build a early 2014 ultimate pc ever

[@g1598]

I had a GTX280 x 3 plus one 8800gt as a physX card many years ago. Then upgraded to two GTX295s water-cooled. The memories

[@ttj_]

I love your content man. By far my favourite youtuber. Keep up the great work!

[@negri2811]

"Enough about the parts, let's build it" *starts speaking about the case*

[@Whosaidwhatism]

The Enthoo Pro is king, I built an older PC using one with 2x e5-2680 on an SSI EEB motherboard, still have that case to this day.

[@stevenbaranello]

you got really lucky - 00 on first boot, from the 100s of Systems we had, usually resulted in CPU or MB swap (usually fried CPU)

[@adeptalakay]

nice video i subbed

[@user-ly8ei5xr5t]

The world's fastest supported windows xp pc can even handle modern games.

[@paperopaperito8512]

man has spore in there what a legend!

[@Nachiopro]

I like your videos!!!!

[@w3tbstuff]

i just KNOW you watched MattKC and went "hell yeah"

[@metal571]

I would definitely be interested in the CPU and GPU utilization of that setup in-game with something like MSI Afterburner...if there still exists a version of that app that works on XP

[@kyles8524]

I remember building my first win 95 "gaming pc" it didnt even have a graphics card and I upped it to 64 megs of ram (which was oddly mixed with like EDO ram and sdr ram little sticks and a few full sized ones) and an sis 6326 which is as bad as the rage iic. But I was blown away.I way able to play motocross madness.Then as a child I simply thought megs mattered abd got a voodoo ii 12 meg and was blown away by its performance.Ive been obsessed with gpu's since Im almost 40 and I was a fifth grader back then and the voodoo ii wasnt even slightly new.I remember seeing Kyro cards and pci or agp voodoo 5's back then, and ATI putting those cool looking branding on the boxes.Like the gargoyle head, or what have you

[@Puwpl]

my favorite hvher has posted a new video

[@Ionic1k]

ive never played hvh in my life lol, dk where you got that from

[@telotawa]

i have a phanteks enthoo pro! it's such a nice case, i got the glass side panel tho

[@le9038]

You should try to build the world's fastest windows 2000 PC next...

[@xx_mlguy_xx7345]

No one cares about windows 2000

[@le9038]

@@xx_mlguy_xx7345 so is the same about windows XP.

[@xx_mlguy_xx7345]

@@le9038 xp and 98 are way more popular. It's just 2000 that no one gives a shlt

[@Blustride]

I wish I could find a use for an old HEDT system like this. The hardware is super cool. As it stands I can’t find a use for a 2S Skylake system I’ve already got.

[@masonsmith6199]

What's really sad is that, after a legitimate benchmark, I discovered that all the specs used by this machine beat my main modern gaming laptop's specs nearly tenfold. This thing cost me 700 dollars and was advertised as "the best gaming laptop we got. This thing's a beast."

[@catheadtv1213]

asom video bro nice

[@qpwoeiruty668]

Some corrections: 1. While the E5-2697 v2 is indeed the highest-core count CPU under X79, the problem is it's not the fastest even in multicore. That honor goes to the E5-1680 v2, which is fully unlocked and able to be OC'd at 4.4-4.6ghz. This gives you superlative single core performance, and multi-core equal (and probably slightly better due to better single core perf) to the E5-2697 v2. 2. The Titan Black isn't the best officially supported GPU. That honor goes to the GTX 780 Ti (without .inf modding) or the GTX 980 Ti (with .inf modding) - the GTX 780 Ti, despite having only 3GB of VRAM, can boost way higher because AIB cooling implementations are way better than blower designs, and the same goes for the GTX 980 Ti vs its Titan X Maxwell sibling. To make the GTX 980 Ti work btw, all you need to do is get the 368.81 official XP drivers, shoehorn the device ID of the GTX 980 Ti in the driver .inf file, then proceed as normal. Bam, you're now cooking! 3. How did you enable SLI on two Titan Blacks? Does it even work? Officially, Nvidia allows you to enable two-card SLI until the Fermi generation, with the GTX 580, and 4-card SLI is only possible with the 7900 GX2/7950 GX2; since kepler, to do SLI period you need to go to Windows Vista and later. Not that you need SLI on Windows XP, if you're using a GTX 780 Ti - on average, two GTX 580s are equalled by a GTX 780 in performance, and are soundly beaten in power consumption, frametime consistency, and general peace of mind. A GTX 780 Ti, or better yet, a GTX 980 Ti? They'll shred. It's not even a contest. 4. Where's the Soundblaster X-Fi Titanium? EAX was a big deal in the XP days, and personally I'd rather stick with two TITAN Zs or three GTX 980 Tis and slip in an X-FI Titanium than do 4-card SLI and have no spare room for a soundblaster.

[@cannedfruitcup]

I love the 1080 so freaking much

[@celestialroad]

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="382">6:22</a> DoD 1.6 hell ya

[@raccoroni.]

my goat

[@tarno_bejo_]

Im thinking about similar project but for win7. Perhaps i can use the 7th gen intel, rtx?

[@mrhappy8966]

I really need that 1080 ti sitting under your monitor for my <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="969">16:9</a> sony hd crt lmfao

[@bseider5387]

I feel so lucky to have one SLI build in my life. It sucks that we have moved beyond that tech instead of improving it.

[@blakedmc1989RaveHD]

BUT CAN IT RUN CRYSIS?

[@Jastarrrrrrrrrr]

The gamer question yeaaaaaaaa

[@companyoflosers]

You must have a decent firewall for this not be be loaded with malware within minutes of connecting to internet.

[@bobthecat5455]

not the nekopara games on the desktop on second screen lmao🤣🤣🤣

[@bricktasticanimations4834]

How very lucky of you.

[@Vellerize]

I'm curious how fast scenes render in Bryce on a PC like this

[@user-ir2sy9ut1e]

Nice! <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="141">02:21</a> Agree!Must be 4 way SLi!!!!!!!!!