Legacy O / S Support
Because some benchmarks perform better on older OSes you may want to run them even though they are not officially supported by Intel. Below are things you need to do to get them working.
For both XP and Windows 7 you might experience a laggy cursor. To remedy this you’ ll want to buy a PCI Express USB Adapter. We recommend you to buy a NEC USB Adapter with a D720200F1 IC because we can confirm that it works.
How to boot into XP: Connect your boot hard drive or SSD to the following two ports highlighted below.
IDE Ports
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