Hello everyone ,
I'm buying a new desktop computer and want to install XP (32bit) on it, and I'd appreciate if someone could help me clear some things up before I buy.
Hardware compatibility and drivers
Motherboard: Asus B85M-K
Graphics card: MSI nVidia GeForce GTX960 2GB DDR5 128bit
Processor: Intel i5-4460 3.2 GHz
Motherboard and graphics has drivers on the manufacturer website, however I wanted to make sure. I remember reading somewhere that there are no drivers for this chipset and that 4th generation Intel processors are not supported, but the drivers are there on the Asus site.
And I recall reading that GeForce GTX960 was the last nVidia card with XP support, there are drivers available on nVidia site. No special drivers necessary for MSI produced nVidia card?
Anybody have any experiences with XP and this hardware?
(I don't have any prior experience with assembling computers, but I think that these components should all be compatible with each other. If someone has experience with this, are they?)
Also, does XP have any problem with a modern hard disk of 1TB? Is the PAE trick for XP 32bit I've read about reliable and enough to let me use 8GB of RAM?
Thanks!
I'm buying a new desktop computer and want to install XP (32bit) on it, and I'd appreciate if someone could help me clear some things up before I buy.
Hardware compatibility and drivers
Motherboard: Asus B85M-K
Graphics card: MSI nVidia GeForce GTX960 2GB DDR5 128bit
Processor: Intel i5-4460 3.2 GHz
Motherboard and graphics has drivers on the manufacturer website, however I wanted to make sure. I remember reading somewhere that there are no drivers for this chipset and that 4th generation Intel processors are not supported, but the drivers are there on the Asus site.
And I recall reading that GeForce GTX960 was the last nVidia card with XP support, there are drivers available on nVidia site. No special drivers necessary for MSI produced nVidia card?
Anybody have any experiences with XP and this hardware?
(I don't have any prior experience with assembling computers, but I think that these components should all be compatible with each other. If someone has experience with this, are they?)
Also, does XP have any problem with a modern hard disk of 1TB? Is the PAE trick for XP 32bit I've read about reliable and enough to let me use 8GB of RAM?
Thanks!