Concupiscence wrote:just brew it! wrote:TheRazorsEdge wrote:Basically, mainstream CPUs have supported SSE2 for over a decade. While I feel some sympathy for people with old equipment, that stuff is old enough to predate Win7.
By nearly a half decade, even.
It's true. I was proud as anything to build a zippy Athlon XP 2400+... in 2004. It was a swell piece of kit, but that was 14 years ago. If you're still in love with it - and the motherboard caps haven't blown, and the CPU still runs in a stable way, and you're A-OK with whatever AGP (or PCI...) graphics card you've slapped in there, I wouldn't dream of stopping you. But keep your expectations reasonable. This would be like grousing that the 486 you bought in 1990 didn't run XP in 2004.
Sounds like a project for me... I have some old pre-2000 era parts scattered through the basement. Not sure if I have enough EDO-dimms lying around or not, but e-bay probably does... I'm sure of a Tseng Labs(4K or 6K) video & Voodoo and numerous ATI 9500/9700/9800 (an AIW or 2) lying around and several old mobo/cpu/Power Supplies to go with them.
Hopefully my old 3.5" floppies are still readable for MS-DOS & Window 3.11 or Win98se.
My basement is veritable "(PC)Land that Time Forgot"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=beirEaMzV-s