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Dear Spectators, Friends, Customers and, no less, Old Enemies, my ole AGP-board died (four capacitors played vulcanoe, and spread their ashes, wish i made a photo...), last one on the range, my last AGP-card is a fake, and so i decided to (and did) send the old guard (Terratec XFire, DDR400, Intel MT 1000 PCI, Athlon64 3000+ ) down to ebay with a last farewell. So, what to do meanwhile? Building was fun... Like this, perhaps? (Courtesy of IgorsLab https://www.igorslab.de/en/20-reasons-to-start-the-year-with-a-smile-and-a-tear-in-your-eye/20/) Have a nice rest of the week! Cheers,

I bought it many years ago, before i was even on MSFN (around 2006? Still might have the receipt around here... dunnow...), and it was dirt-cheap, regarding what it claimed to be. Still, the chip-id correctly names this is a 9600 XT (kudos @Saxon), and everything else makes sense with THAT chip, and that chip alone. It worked for many years, i was able to cool it passively without a sweat, triple-boot with w98SE, XP Pro and W7 Pro 64 bit (this would not have been possible with less than 256MB of memory!), played i played Diablo (1) on it (on W7 in a VM! Don't do this at home... ;-( ), so in the end, who am i to complain? So I had lots of fun with it, and that's what counts, correct? Kudos to the chinese engineers playing this joke on me! I only discovered this strange effect when my last working AGP-board died, so i have no reference-MoBo to test it on anymore, that's why i look up, instead of testing it. I now just bury my AGP-era hardware on ebay, offering condolences while sending them off, and send a prayer to rloew (as much as it is possible, as i'm an atheist, which would fit that 'ole hacker). Thank you for all your assistance and thoughts, that's why i love being on MSFN!!!! ;-)

Saxon, i should have googled that myself. THANK YOU! So this is a true chinese fake... Cheers,

Ok, have i been scammed or not? All of you Sherlock Holmes` of the Hardware world, please engage ... Cheers, P.S.: If any thing looks too good to be true... i´d make some bucks on ebuy ... (128bit, 256MB, no power connector... ATI Radeon 9600 XT ? But the inscription on the GPU looks genuine... And just now my last working AGP-board died... )

Honestly, no reasons were given for the site becoming defunct (yet). But the owner (Future) also purchased Tom's Hardware, who took over some reviewers. So you might call it consolidation in a shrinking market? The cost for such a site were the wages for the journalists, i guess.

https://www.anandtech.com/show/21542/end-of-the-road-an-anandtech-farewell :'-(

Hi, Dietmar, do you have any link pointing at which Hardware is supported by Ramsey XP? I'm especially interested in HW (esp. CPU and MoBo) that is cross-compatible with W11. Yes, even if it exists, secureboot... fTPM 2.20... XP might choke on that... but that maybe subject to experiments... Cheers,

The Xeons you mention are Sandy Bridge, the i7-4???X are Ivy Bridge. Yes, that is the last officially supported CPU Generation. Btw.: Good link to that video, some hope remains.

Wise words. I cannot guarantee the security of the links, but my detectors didn't go red. As always: Shields up! ...maybe the youtube links bears slightly less risk, as it is up for several years. Ah, yes, context: The first link is proving evidence that W95 became an evil AI after being dropped by M$. The video is completely unrelated, but a bit evil as well, if i may say, which relates to its popularity in britain and the US.

Beware... https://windows95tips.com/#_=_ In case you don't remember, the blogger is also famous for this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tx1XIm6q4r4

Shamelessly stolen from IgorsLab (successor of TomsHardwareGuide in Germany):

I had a week of training by Didier Stevens (about pdf-hacking), and i think that man has quite some proven record of competence regarding security. He knows how to apply some really nasty hacks. I read the blog-entry, and think what is there will motivate security-aware people to disable the webdav-client even on other old OS than XP. I'd be very, very careful with W7 already, but with a patched W10, it should be safe. I don't use anything below W10, unless it is blocked on my router, and confined to a virtual network. For anyone knowing what they are doing regarding hardening, some old OS might still suffice, but for myself, i'm not that good, therefore i don't take risks.

Regarding NV 980 and NV 970 see this, i own one 980 and two 970 (SLI), both work well, SLI won't work on XP though (while it does on W10 in a dual-boot config): I recommend the GTX 980 with this driver as the "fastest" GPU for XP --> that actually makes sense <-- ... (a GTX 980 Ti with 6GB on a modded driver sounds nice, but i can hardly find a rational over the 980)

I did my own experiements with Ryzen and XP - "running" is not the same as "running games on it". I'd rather not invest time, less money, on that horse. With Ivy bridge, i have the latest CPU-type officially supporting XP (including Socket 1356 and 2011 type Xeons and the like). With everything else later on, even if you feel a bit more adventurous, drivers become scarce. But even there, i7-6xxx is the newest reported to run. And includes heavy modding for ACPI, UEFI. AHCI, and stuff. I had more --> modern <-- systems semi-running W98SE than XP, but W11-compatible hardware is far out. But let's see, who comes up with what.... MSFN always surprised me in the past...

Yeah, possible, i have XP 64 here as well. Unfortunately, many games that work in XP 32 bit, won't work on XP 64bit. Very often they DO run, but the installers are still 16bit (which works in XP 32bit), and so you have problems getting them installed. So, sometimes 64bit is a solution, sometimes it is not. But intel core start the generation AFTER core 7700K, and that is pretty new, many things just six years old. W11 and XP seem to be mutually exclusive atm.