Best laptop for windows xp retro gaming?

[AxeMan]

Do you know what graphics card is best for xp gaming? I think Geforce 6xxx series were good but do you have any laptop in mind that is best suited for this purpose? Thank you!

[Cathulhu]

Just use PCem on a modern system. Problem solved.

[Bad 💀 Motha]

No reason to use old hardware. Especially crappy laptops that don't age well and don't last long over time

[A&A]

Well, l can advise you to buy not less than dual core Arrandale CPU. 4GBs should be enough, but there is nothing wrong to go with 8 or more. Put an SSD. What about the GPU? 1GB VRAM. Even if it is a Quadro GPU, you should be fine.

Every workstation laptop from 2009/2010 should be fine.

[xSOSxHawkens]

Would be classed as an end of XP-life begining of windows vista laptop, and would have been *very* pricey at the time.

Mobile MXM Geforce 8800 variant, optionally two for mobile SLI.
Core2 in either top end mobile sku of dual or quad core.
4-8GB ram
*possibly* an early SSD, or at least dual HDD, possibly in raid, likely 7200rpm or perhaps 10k
16:10 screen in either 1440*900 or 1920*1200
Creative X-Fi discrete audio built in with EAX 5.0 support.

Such a machine would have set a person back multiple thousand in 2007 dollars, and would have either shipped with XP and a vista ready sticker on it, or shipped more likely by 07/08 with vista as the installed OS.

Around that time I got my first vista machine and back rolled it to XP. It was only an 850 buck model though, but was still quite powerfull for the time and was faster than my only a couple year old at the time Pentium 4 build. The laptop was an Acer with a Turrion 64 x2 (competitor to lower TDP core 2 duo chips) and the an entry 8000 nvidia discrete GPU, with 4GB of ram.

[xSOSxHawkens]

https://www.notebookcheck.net/Test-Alienware-Area-51-m17x-Notebook.11348.0.html

Example, a dual core, core 2 extreme, 1920x1200, 8800m GTX SLI alienware from the era that was over 4k EUR fully kitted. In 2008 bucks.

[A&A]

Even if it is an early Windows 7 machine like HP EliteBook 8540w should have support for this.

[Introverted Gamer]

Something by Sony VAIO.

[Reiko]

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