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I'm guessing XP installs are probably increasing again as the retro gaming thing takes hold, the tech equivalent of having a record player. I just built myself on XP machine, not what I am using to post this BTW. I managed to source all the choicest components like a Pentium 4 with hyper threading, at 3.2 Ghz it real flies, well glides maybe, the 3.4Ghz ones go for stupid money so I settled on the 3.2, same for the graphics card I managed to get the second fastest Nvidia AGP card GTX 7850, again the the 7900 go for alarmingly large amounts of dough these days.