MAXIMUM POSSIBLE HARDWARE CONFIGURATION FOR WINDOWS 2000 DATACENTER

Desperately need a help of Windows 2000 adepts.

I’ve decided to build a [Windows 2000 Datacenter] machine.
Especially after discovering the news about porting of modern fully-fledged [Supermium] browser into W2K environment.

Here are the results of my investigations. Correct me and add additional preciseness to details.

Important statements [please correct me if i’m wrong]:

• Maximum number of CPU threads including hyper-threaded ones can be 32 [so 16 cores + 16 HT threads is an absolute maximum]
• Maximum amount of RAM is 32Gb [accessible via PAE technology, which introduces some latency and affects performance a bit, browsing the web i’ve seen some non-clear evidence of 64gb RAM configurations].
• Best video card is GeForce 980Ti 6Gb Vram
• As i understand NVME storage is out of the question, only SATA SSD can be configured
• USB3.0 support is not possible? [or i just need to purchase correct discrete controller with appropriate drivers?]
• There is no PCIE Audio card with Windows 2000 drivers

Here is a configuration which i decided to try out in Windows 2000 field:

• CPU: Xeon E5-2696 [i already own 44 thread beast, planning to disable HT tech to make things work]
• MOBO: Asrock X99 Extreme 4 [not certain about drivers though]
• RAM: 32Gb DDR4 (8Gb x 4)
• VIDEO: 6Gb GeForce 980 Ti / 12Gb Titan X [i’ve heard that 980Ti is faster than TitanX by a small margin]
• SSD: Plain SATAIII SSD < 120Gb
• AUDIO: ESI Juli@ PCI [Audigy RX has drivers]

Hopefully that i didn’t forget anything crucial to make build happen.

Waiting for your expertise, you teckno-dinosaurs!
You can drop me a line and express your thoughts by means of available methods in [contact section] of the website.

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