Rosey

Heyas, The short read: I'm Rosey from Down Under, my time here will be 99% reading and 1% communicating. The long read: Recently built a socket 478 Pentium 4. Last one of those we had died in 2009, asus motherboard gave up the ghost. All our younglings are flying the nest, or working, time to get back to what I enjoyed. Using 3dmax to create new characters, buildings etc, for old games. Winxp 32bit on i7 was the successor from our burnt out asus socket 478 build. Alot of the older game tools didn't like the 64bit processor, win10 on a later i7, the older apps and tools disliked that even more. So enough of that, time for the old retro build made specifically for the task! The build: Sourced a New in box, socket 478 motherboard that supported Pci-e and ddr2. A 3.4ghz cpu, 4 gigabyte of memory (667mhz), a New in box gt 9400 graphics card, A new corsair 750w power supply. Up until now, everytime we upgrade, it's been to throw about 6k at the latest hardware and use it for years, picture, great hardware, generic cases, pc poked into the slot in desk and door closed. This time I am bothering with Rgb, and water cooling. Though we've alwayys used Aio with the i7's, now it's time for a custom loop. The noise: Needless to say, during the procuring process, many spares have been purchased as well. An original P4 socket 478 cpu cooler was added to this build to get it up and running, water cooling items still on their way (Things can take forever to deliver to Australia) Yeah! No.. No no no. I'm sure everyone knows how loud vacuum cleaners can be? That is the sum of just the stock Cpu fan and 9400gt fan sound. Maybe a little hyperbole on how loud it is, but not by alot. It's loud! The mess: It's a Nzxt H440 case, fittingly retro appearing. The top, front and side panels are all off. It's a mess of wires. The ssd hangs in mid air and a cd drive sits atop it all. It runs, I've been applying applications, protection and having arrived here and finding a web browser, that too. The dream: A quiet system. The rgb fans have been tested already. Whisper quiet, especially since the case has sound proofing. A custom pink liquid loop for cpu and graphics card. and it's looking to be white wires. The local pc store has pink and white, yet for some reason the pci6 pin and 8 pin, one uses a black connector, the other, white. Go figure. White will be the easiest. The resevoir is a barrow with full length lcd display reading from aida installed on pc, let's see how that goes. Worst case scenario, it dislikes the retro rig and is then just resevoir. ~ Rosey

Definitely using protection. Originally used xp from start of 2002 until 2015 when Win10, in my mind a worthy xp successor came along. With Win10 Eol coming in 2025 I'll have to move on to Win11, knowing full well alot of the things I use now on Win10, don't work on Win11. The cycle continues. ~ Rosey

Heyas, Needed a pure 32bit system for ancient applications and 3d modeling software, built up an old socket 478 pentium 4 again, the whole browser problem made my stomach sink. So many forums browsed, browsers tried, slow, unable to add extensions, myriads of other issues. Found this site, began trying 360 EE variants, then found this! It's an entire game changer for Winxp! Gmail, Web Skype, Web Discord, Browses google images fast, Ublock origin, any forum I've been to, all works! Stomach sinking feeling averted. Joy and a huge smile ensuing. Awoke feeling it may have been just a dream, but nope. It works. As for the above posts about security flaws, welcome to Windows Xp in 2023. Personally wouldn't be doing any sensitive online things with it. That Chromium report would be minor compared to a sister version of 'Winxp known vulnerabilities in 2023'. NotHereToPlayGames, Thank you so very much. No one can expect one person, or even a dozen to make a 100% secure browser for WinXp. Best any reasonable person can expect is functionality and ease of use. This has that. I'm glad you have been kind enough, and have the knowledge to have made this work for Xp users. ~ Rosey Win Xp Pro 32bit Sp3. Specs: P4, 3.4ghz Socket 478, Gt 9400, 4gb Ddr2 667 Used: 360ChromePortable_13.5.1030_r8_regular_webgl-enabled_translate-enabled_win-10-skin.zip