Maybe you could do a followup once you get a good graphics card?

@AtomicPurple

2 жыл бұрын

I plan to. Edit: update video here kzread.info/dash/bejne/an2g1aiLlL3NlZM.html

I'm watching this video on Windows XP that my parents bought back in 2003

@YTpro000

2 жыл бұрын

Ur cool

@abhijeetkulkarni883

2 жыл бұрын

Cool bro 😎

@jwork5680

2 жыл бұрын

Ayo do you use antivirus

@passionatebeast24

2 жыл бұрын

Which browser are you using??

@unused7629

2 жыл бұрын

@@passionatebeast24 a one thats compatible with xp but updated to newest update

really underrated channel if u ask me, thumbs up

This was an excellent video and I feel the same about Windows 7 also. It is my favorite OS!

I was either in the 4th grade when Windows 7 came out and when I got my very first personal laptop from my parents that Christmas, it had Windows 7. Coming from our family pc that had Windows XP, 7 felt so magical! The fact that it can be considered retro now feels so weird lmao

thanks for this video! i got my first desktop and chose for it to be a windows 7 pc :) really helps me get a footing on where to start this project! thank youuuu~

Great video and great build! I love this sort of build, I've done a couple of windows 7 builds, they are cool! The 730 is surprisingly bad, but I'm glad you figured out the issue in quake 4, it was scary how slow it was haha. Great video, thanks for putting it out.

@AtomicPurple

2 жыл бұрын

Glad you liked it.

@finkelroy7030

2 жыл бұрын

Must be playing the Steam version of Quake 4 because I just played it a couple of days ago on an HD6450 (1/4 the power of the GT730) and it ran well. What you purchase from those services isn't really the original program and has higher resource requirements. It is often running partially or totally in emulation.

NOW this is quality content!

Windows 7 will ALWAYS be the BEST operating system that microsoft ever released!

@edwineriksson2882

2 жыл бұрын

@@overfl0w-op5xg Windows 8 sucks kook!

@ivankong1065

2 жыл бұрын

@@edwineriksson2882 To be fair, Windows 8 did not actually suck because it was developed to be used for tablets in mind, but it definitely sucked if you used it in a PC. In my opinion, Windows XP was actually more iconic than Windows 7 though.

@ivankong1065

2 жыл бұрын

@Exempt 1 yes iconic haha well that happens

@NottJoeyOfficial

2 жыл бұрын

@@ivankong1065 It is more iconic, but it's not the best OS ever made by Microsoft. This OS is the best one they have ever made.

@ivankong1065

2 жыл бұрын

@@NottJoeyOfficial to be honest though, from a windows xp user, I actually like windows 10 more. And then they screwed up again with windows 11. I realize windows pattern is like success then suck and then success then suck again, like windows 2000 and windows xp, windows vista and windows 7, windows 8 and windows 10.

My machine is Vista-7 era (2008) but I think they just wanted to make it cheap but it runs really well in Windows 7 and 8.1 (and 8!)

Definitely I have a plan to build a Windows 7 PC ☺ depending on the parts availability

this channel needs more subs

Steam finally just dropped support for 7. NOW it's officially retro.

@himmelskibet

Ай бұрын

And it is still getting updates as of 05/19/2024

Oh Windows 7 please come back alive!

Interesting. I also have a retro WIndows 98 and XP. I think it's time to build also a Windows 7 retro PC.

@xxraptorsc0pezxx

Жыл бұрын

The trinity of extra PCs

@nikolaievans2432

3 ай бұрын

Windows 7 is not retro dude

My dad started a KZread channel with my mom. He created a intro video and was very excited to show me. For context my dad was a wedding/school/company videographer. But that was years ago so he has had some video experience. Anyways he shows me his intro video and I said I like it it looks retro. Because it looks like his videos from 15 years ago. Anyways this upset him so much he bought the entire adobe sweet, something he swore on his grave he'd never buy but he had pirated older versions. He's created a much more modern one now. Just thought I'd share this story when I read retro.

i have that same monitor! it is amazing and has never failed me, to the point that i use it with my rtx 3060!

This video is good BUT what if you could get any parts you wanted, what would you get so that windows 7 can run without problems???

Watching this from my AMD & Nvidia Windows 7 machine with a X-Fi Titanium. However, I have a Ryzen 7 2700X (Looking to hop up to the 5800X), and GTX 970. Also, that BIOS and driver installer looks significantly better than the BIOSes and driver installers on most modern boards imo

@mariastevens6406

Жыл бұрын

I just built an xp machine with an X-Fi Titanium, great sound card

Earlier this year I put together a dual boot WinXP/Win7 machine. I already had the tower, motherboard, CPU, RAM and GPU so I was able to save a fair bit of money. It's an old DDR2 board so I just bought an extra bit of RAM to fill up all the slots, a power supply, a DVD drive, a floppy drive (because why not?) and a hard drive. The rig has an E4600 Core2 Duo @ 2.4GHz, 7GB RAM (somehow one of my 4 sticks is actually only 1GB, not sure how I never noticed that before) and it has a Radeon HD 6850 1GB MSI Cyclone edition. The motherboard is Zotac branded, so it has an Nvidia chipset and integrated graphics (Geforce 9300).

@nikolaievans2432

3 ай бұрын

For windows 7 you could go for a rtx 3090ti and a gtx 960 for winxp if you want to max it for out

@darkprinc979

3 ай бұрын

@@nikolaievans2432 I'm thinking that a system that old would be a pretty big bottleneck for a 3090ti. It has a much earlier pcie version than what the 3090 is designed for so right off the bat performance will be limited, plus a core2 duo is likely to further limit what it can do. Granted I'm not going to be putting super modern games on that system, but I think that would be a waste. Dual gpus aren't really an option on that board either, because it is a micro atx board rather than full sized, so sadly there just isn't enough room for that kind of expansion. The HD 6850 is a decent card for that board, as it can play both XP era and Windows 7 era games without too many issues. The XP drivers seem to have pretty bad open gl support though. I did recently upgrade the processor from an E4600 to an E8600 and the performance increase is notable with not only a higher clock speed at 3.3 GHz but also an increased l3 cache size and faster bus support.

“Retro” I guess tech before 2009 is considered ancient

I miss my win 7 rig. I built it for a friend in like 2010 and bought it off his years later, for £40. Nice Lian li case was worth at least twice that used. I upgraded it heavily with a Phenom 1090t, 8gb of corsair ram an SSD, 1tb hard drive and 750ti. Also set up a dual boot with XP. Spans these 2 eras pretty well and maxed out everything I wanted to play. I dunno if 7 still supports Steam but if it does I'd be willing to build something like that again.

@casty59aj

Жыл бұрын

My main PC has Windows 7, I can confirm that Steam still works

@9852323

Жыл бұрын

My main computer runs 7 steam supports it.

No, Windows 7 is NOT retro. I still use it to this day on my 12th gen Intel PC and it works like a charm. Ofcourse installation process and most of the drivers were tricky as hell, but eventually it was worth it. Windows 7 is still better and more stable than 10&11.

15:40 Ah yes, the glorious IdTech 4 optimization

My actual gaming rig aka the "Low Electricity Win7 PC" is running in a DELL Optiplex 7010 Desktop, with 16GB of DDR3 1600MHz in Dual Channel; CPU is an Intel Xeon E3-1240 v2; GPU is an AMD Radeon RX6400; a 256GB SSD on SATA 3, a 2TB mechanical hard disc for data and games; Soundcard is a Soundblaster X-FI Xtreme Gamer 7.1 SB0730 and it runs great. Windows 7 Experience index is: CPU: 7.8, GPU: 7.8, RAM 7.9, Hard Disc 7.9 Total system power consumption = Less than 100 Watts (Xeon max power draw I have seen reported by Open Hardware Monitor is 46 Watts and with the Radeon RX6400 is 53 watts. ( I had in the PC a Nvidia Quadro T600 with hacked drivers to work in Win7, which gave a WEI of 7.9 in GPU, but the RX6400 had native Windows 7 drivers from AMD).

Still using Windows 7 in 2023 as my daily driver!

@BeastShubhh

21 күн бұрын

Me in 2024

Eventually, I'm going to rebuild a windows 7 beast in the level 10 gt I kept from the computer I had at that time. I wish I hadn't sold my z77 sabertooth...

In the school I've was attended for, each computer in the ComLab has Windows 7 OS.

For anyone who wants to know, the fastest officially supported parts for Windows 7 are as followed: i9-9980XE ROG Strix X299-E Gaming II 128GB DDR4-4266MHz RTX 3090 Ti

For a retro Windows 7 gaming pc, I would NOT install all of the Windows 7 Updates as they make the response of the pc extremely slow for some reason. I am thinking we need to make special videos of retro XP and retro 7 gaming pc which updates to install, which to ignore, and which to block.

What GT 730 version are you using? Results seems whack. I remember running far cry 2 back in the day maxed out with same in game resolution as what you are using with an HD4850, overclocked Pentium E5200 and 4gb of ram and I'm getting playable framerates than what you are getting. According to Tom's Hardware's gpu hierarchy, the GT 730 GDDR5 version is just around HD4770 performance. Given I was still running with DDR2 mems and weaker cpu than yours you should be getting way better framerates than what you are getting

I have windows xp retro pc its not much but runs most of windows xp games Specs: Cpu :amd athlon 64x2 dual core 3800+ 1.99ghz am2 socket 2 core 2 thread Gpu : msi nvidia geforce 9400gt 512 mb gddr2 (passive cooled) edit:i replaced my gpu now i use nvidia 7950 gt 512mb Ram:5gb ddr2 800mhz (3x1gb 1x2gb) Storage: Hard disk1 : 7200 rpm toshiba 3.5 inch 1tb sata3 (dtaca0100) Hard disk 2 : 2.5 inch hitachi 500gb (taken from laptop) Solid state drive : gigabyte 256 gb sata3 Optical drive :lg on stata 1 inferface As i said its not much but it does what it needs to do - play old games

Still running a Win 7 PC with an FX8320E and gtx 750 ti as my main desktop, because current hardware prices are ridiculous for a university student. So far no major issues, except for discord screen share not working anymore for whatever stupid reason. If it survives the next two years, it'll have lasted me for 11 years. (Although I did briefly have a 1070 installed which died after a year, great.)

@NottJoeyOfficial

2 жыл бұрын

I actually found the same issue with Discord screen share. I haven't tried to share myself, but when I attempt to watch other people's streams they won't load for me. Some people load in the app, some do not. One work around I found for watching streams anyways is to load into Discord in Microsoft Edge, which should be installed on any Windows 7 machine that's up to date with updates. Not sure if that will let you share your own screen, but it's worked without fail to let me watch other streams. For some reason no other Chromium based browser works either, it has to be Edge in my experience.

@Luxfalcon

2 жыл бұрын

@@NottJoeyOfficial Well, I guess I'll try that some time. My main browser is the good old firefox, so no chromium there afaik. Used the discord desktop client so far.

@NottJoeyOfficial

2 жыл бұрын

@@Luxfalcon yeah, I usually use Firefox too, but since Discord itself is a Chromium based app they still never even tried to get streams working on Firefox last I checked. It's good that Edge is built in at least, so you don't have to download anything additional. Good luck to you.

iam using an old HP pavilion 6214y .. its a athlon II x4 and dual boots win7/64 and windows xp64 on seperate drives.. the onboard is good for xp era stuff but any old radeon HD era car thats 128bit memory interface will be plenty.. i dont game on 7 because most games were online activation or online multiplayer but run my video picture and audio editors in 7. The 2 drives are sata2 8gb ddr 2 memory with a combo drive burner and its perfect for the split task of game box and editor

im running windows 7 on my pc with an rtx 3090 and a core i9 12900k, it also has a 1tb nvme ssd and an intel wifi card. It works great

@zenvultra

7 ай бұрын

Which motherboard are you using?

@awesomeanimations3485

7 ай бұрын

gigabyte b660m d3sh ddr4 @@zenvultra

i dont know much about how to build or what parts to pick. any reccomendations on how to start a build like this? this is my favorite era of gaming. honestly if i could just get a list of a parts and software i bet i could probably put it together, id love to max out for this era. where should i start my research?

@AtomicPurple

Жыл бұрын

If you want to max out a build for the era you'll be looking to get parts from around 2012-2013. You'll probably looking at a 2nd or 3rd gen Intel i-series CPU and an NVIDIA GTX 600 or 700 series graphics card. You could even get 2 identical cards and run them in an SLI configuration if you wanted something really overkill. If you want something a little more pre-built, I'd recommend looking into decommissioned servers and high-end workstations. You can find these kinds of systems from about 10 years ago being sold for dirt cheap by government organizations an universities. Look for towers with a Xeon processor (Intel's server CPUs), as they tend to be very reliable and are usually equivalent to at least a mid-range i-series chip in performance. You can check the exact model against a second-gen i7 to see what kind of bargain you're getting. If you find something decent, it's usually just a matter of adding a GPU and installing Windows. I've done this a couple times with Dell Precision towers and have gotten great results. Also, I'd avoid AMD CPUs from this era. The high-end ones can be decent, and I even used one in this build, but they run extremely hot. I'm actually looking to replace the one I used here at some point due to the insane amount of heat waste.

Why you have a Gigabyte GA-990FXA-UD3 and you said that this is a 590-FX?

small detail to the graphics card here, the MSI GT 730 that you are using is DDR3 one, which is absolute the worst version of it, use the GDDR5 one instead and you will get a decent gaming performance

Fact: i was still using windows 7 when this came out

Windows 7 gaming pc starter pack (hardware): Core i5 2500K Hyper 212 or Corsair H80 AIO ASUS or MSI Z68 board 8 GB Corsair Vengeance DDR3 GTX 570 GPU 500-1000 GB hard drive (maybe a 120 GB SSD if you were rich) and of course, the legendary Cooler Master Elite 430 case!!

Still using windows 7 on my OptiPlex 9020 i7-4790 Radeon R5 240 1 GB GDDR3 16 GB RAM 500 GB HDD

What do you think of using Steam on Windows 7? I recently got a GTX570 on my old IVY bridge system for old games but not sure if it's unsafe to use online just to access my steam games.

@AtomicPurple

2 жыл бұрын

It should be safe enough as long as you take proper precautions and don't keep any sensitive info on it. The first thing you should do when you get it online is fully update Windows, and don't open a web browser until that's finished. Then immediately install a better browser along with a good ad-blocker, and a script blocker if you're really paranoid. I'd suggest keeping web browsing on the system to a minimum, and don't click ads or download random files (duh). In my case I also use a PiHole DNS server to block ads and malicious domains network-wide. Personally, I wouldn't trust having my old computers online without it in place. If you want to go really overboard you could set up rules on your router or in the Windows hosts file to block all connections on that machine, except a handful of whitelisted domains. The only other thing I'd suggest is to disable the "hide extensions of known file types" option in folder and search settings so you're less susceptible to trojans. Honestly, most of this stuff is just good practice for any computer, not just obsolete ones.

@Edmundostudios

2 жыл бұрын

@@AtomicPurple Good points, thanks. My copy of SP1 didn’t even work with windows update out of the box until I installed the 2GB of grouped KB updates from the Microsoft catalog but it finds new updates now after those were installed. I was surprised to see that Microsoft still updates Microsoft security essentials and still seems to do critical updates like with the print nightmare issues along with some other updates listed as 2021. As you said in your video I find 7 much nicer to use than 10.

@finkelroy7030

2 жыл бұрын

I am very much not in favor of running Steam on my Windows 7 machine because it isn't authentic and you might as well play on a modern PC. They are running most of that stuff in emulation and even when they don't, I suspect it is often heavily modified and amended even when not a "remastered edition". I buy old copies of games, often for a lot cheaper than what they cost on Steam or GOG and run them the authentic way. The old code and the old machine kinda goes hand in hand and if you aren't going to do both, why mess with any of it?

@finkelroy7030

2 жыл бұрын

@@AtomicPurple Avast seems to work pretty well for free security software. But I still don't do anything super critical on Windows 7. Not logging into my bank account!

@Edmundostudios

2 жыл бұрын

@@finkelroy7030 it’s mostly ease of access. My library is already there and I share a triple boot with windows 10 and XP and they all connect to the same steam library directory. If I find an older game that has some kind of compatibility issue I can just switch to 7 or xp and continue where I left off with it.

6:55 that's weird, that Spore icon lacks the shine that I have. Did EA update the shortcut at some point.

The bios style is not ugly its preety and nostalic

@helloworld145

11 ай бұрын

It's not ugly, it's horrendous

Windows 7 is lowkey the most beautiful os Microsoft has ever made

i use win7 with I9 9900k and RTX 3060 Ti. has win7 drivers

Next time you need to blow away an entire disk with all partitions on it, you can do that with diskpart.

Even a super high end pc with a RTX 3090/RX 6900 XT with a I9 12900k can run windows 7 if you make a custom windows 7 with the drivers integrated in ntlite

@himmelskibet

Жыл бұрын

Running 7 on my 12900k with a 770

@ShahhTweaks

Жыл бұрын

@@himmelskibet nice

I've got a 660 just lying around right now...

When you see that a gtx 670 is from that time. Me having a nvidia 550 Ti on my old pc that is 11.

I dunno man. While it might be considered retro time-wise, it doesn't really look retro like XP

@SharkVaderYT

2 жыл бұрын

Even XP falls between retro and modern

@thepirategamerboy12

2 жыл бұрын

I really don't agree with calling Windows 7 retro. I wouldn't call anything capable of running stuff such as Red Dead Redemption 2 and even Cyberpunk 2077 retro. I mean, I'm still using it as my OS right now on my main laptop and desktop. Will perhaps upgrade to 10 whenever I can get a decent GPU for the desktop so I can play more modern games, though. Don't see much point in running 10 on my laptop because none of those newer DX11/12 games could ever run on it anyway.

@NottJoeyOfficial

2 жыл бұрын

@@thepirategamerboy12 Yeah, my laptop is a dual boot with 7 and 10, and anything that I can run on Windows 10 also runs on Windows 7 due to the age of this laptop. Even Yugioh Dual Masters runs on 7 despite saying it requires DX11 and Windows 10 as a minimum. I tend to boot into Windows 7 when I need fast access to programs instead of letting Windows 10 boot for a while. It's much more light weight so it's a lot faster to boot.

6:41 I own this exact display and I am using it as I write this comment!

1:03 I have that EXACT laptop, but I use another one

This is me using a gaming PC that has Windows 10 but the keyboard has its Windows 7 window button

6:58 me too

It's strange that gt730 cannot even run a game from 2005

would have been cool to see the actual building part tbh, only critique i have for this vid, otherwise solid

Actually, the MSI 730 you have is probably the GT 430. Yes.

DUDE no way... i have a Radeon HD 4850 in my custom XP build is well ... holy crap, small world

At mar 9:19 why does he say your not supposed to use windows 7 online and that Hes using pi hole and keeping and eye on it? And how can I do this? Thanks

i still have a 2007 msi megabook m670 that was a upgraded with a dualcore and i had windows 7 on it and it broke in a few months now it doesn't post but it turns on but no post and i also have an asus x551ca-sx029h celeron at 1.5ghz its fully dead

Huh, guess W10 will become retro once MS stops all security updates and support for it. I just might be able to afford an Acer Nitro 5 in my country by then, lol!

@AtomicPurple

2 жыл бұрын

Windows 10 end of life is 2025, you've still got a bit of time.

i have that exact monitor

AMD FX 8350 and 8370E have 4 cores, not 8

so windows 7 updated properly, no warnings about hardware etc....

Windows 7 On Modern Hardware Is Just Too Fast Since It Did NOT Have Any Sort Of Bloatware😊

Can someone tell me what's the best and fastest windows 7 computer to use for just emulation ? I don't do PC gaming , i currently have a windows 7 for all my retro emulation but i want to be able to emulate PS2, Gamecube Wii. I can buy a gaming PC to support those emulators but i want a windows 7,because I can customize that way better for an arcade themed computer.

@AtomicPurple

2 жыл бұрын

If you're only using it for emulation, and value customization, I'd just go with Linux. There are entire distros that are purpose built to run emulators. They have less overhead than Windows and compatibility/performance with newer hardware will likely be much better than what you'd get with 7.

I still use Win 7 on my main rig. :(

i still use windows 7 because my PC lags like hell on windows 10

So my gaming PC (with an intel core i7 7700k +16GB RAM + gtx 1070) (note i have windows 10 on another drive (a 1TB Samsung SSD) but I don’t use it that much)

Impossible my main PC is still Windows 7!

Windows 7 is the best

This build would be better with a 4th gen intel i7 CPU, much better performance than that FX cpu

that cpu cooler is sideways

Bro I also have thT 9:46

3:22 🤨🤨🤨🤔What did he say?!🤨

I'm using a hp2009 on my main pc right now and it's really bad

Not really retro since like newer pc games are still being released for it via steam!!!

Sheesh, you're picking stuff from the time instead of maximizing on what it's capable of. You're missin out on the 2700x, RTX 3000s, Freesync or G-sync 3440x1440 QLEDs, DTS X or Atmos, Media Player 12/Media Center for Xbox 360/PS3 streaming. And all that modern stuff Windows 7 can absolutely run and support... I hate Windows 10 and am hoping Windows 11 no longer has initial issues. 2024 update: It can even use RX 6400/6500 XTs. Even Windows 8.1 supports up to the Quadro RTX 8000 which should be very relevant by today's standards. I myself have a Quadro RTX 4000 for 2060 Super performance for 8.1.

@himmelskibet

Ай бұрын

I still main 7 but to absolutely no one's surprise 11 is even worse than 10.

nah im still around whit windows 7

Grab yourself either a GTX 680, a GTX 960 or a Radeon 7970/R9 280x and be happy.

Windows 7 works good with intel..

How you no 0x80072efe on update?

@vaseamd

Жыл бұрын

He downloaded some updates and patches to work.

my main pc is from 2009 lol

I thought windows 7 only supported 8gb of ram

@ivankong1065

2 жыл бұрын

You are thinking of Windows 7 Starter and Home Basic edition. The Windows 7 Pro 64bit (and above) actually supports up to 192GB.

@MarioMad420

2 жыл бұрын

Ahh I see

@UzumeCEDC

8 ай бұрын

@@ivankong1065home premium only supports 16GB

Nvidia profile program sete de pré-rendering FPS on CPU 4 to 6 FPS and now the CPU gona work more, beter fps😂

I'm sorry to tell you this but it's not... Windows Vista is more Retro than 7, especially because 7 run alot of things where Vista doesn't...

Dude is not a fan of FA it seems 😔

Just use normal modern hardware lol it can run 7

@LincolnsWorld13

3 ай бұрын

Barley

@himmelskibet

Ай бұрын

@@LincolnsWorld13 It does, I have it running on my modern 13700K and 3090 Ti rig and it is so unbelievably fast

Without a graphics card it is not a gaming PC.

Windows 7 is not retro. anything after ME and 2000 is not retro.

There‘s no crypto-bubble, actually. But when Ethereum finally change from proof of work to proof of stake, graphic cards will decrease their price. The culprit isn‘t Bitcoin, it‘s very difficult to mine this cryptocurrency with graphic cards nowadays.

Windows 7 is not retro dummy retro means using something after not in Use for a long time many parts of the world still use windows 7 and many software still support it its not retro yet

Windows 7 isnt Retro...Do you even know what "Retro means". Its an era from 1970 all the way to 1990 in case of pc´s. Windows 7 cannot be retro..bc it isnt that old. And even when it gets to 2030 it will have to have a different name and not retro...

Windows 7 is not retro, I use every day still in 2023 it's the best OS ever made !!!! And people saying the opposite are simply stupid !!!

Which Mobo are you using ?

NOW this is quality content!