I don't personally use Hyper-V, but from what I gather here (systeminfo.exe in command prompt), it doesn't tick all of the checkboxes
Brisbane doesn't have SLAT? Wow. So that's a hard no, like a smack right into the wall. Great. (´・ω・`) Guess AM2 really is a dead end.
It takes several seconds to load pages on Youtube. Using HWU's latest 6500XT video as a test, 720p with any sort of action going on (e.g. gameplay clips) stutters badly, but low action is smooth (e.g. bar graph sections). 1080p is a major stutterfest regardless of what's going on in the video, which surprised me a bit since I expected the 8800 GT to help it out a bit more there. Apparently it doesn't. 480p and below play perfectly, at least.
Yeah that is going to be normal. Ignoring the probable 90% bottleneck (save overclocking the snot out of that Athlon), you're going to get marginally better experience on a dedicated GPU than you would using integrated output, which has its own whole other universe of problems. Video playback at 480p nets the greatest experience with minimal stutter. 720p will chug at start/stop as it introduces a very bizarre problem familiar to seasoned video editors that claim runaway frames. This is a situation where you'll pause the video but the frames keep going, as if the whole movie is playing catch up with the audio track or something. Everything beyond that is an incredibly miserable experience at any buffer size. I keep mine on 32M as there's no disable option and let the box sit in the background until something prompts me to login remotely, which isn't too terrible without Explorer shell but slow enough to be a reminder of its limits.
The CPU cant even get over 27 degrees Celsius with and without the heatsink.
And that's amazing. That Athlon appears to be another 89W 90nm chip similar to my Pentium 4 Prescott. That isn't great considering the four years between them but that system had one frustrating issue of an actively cooled chipset (it gets hot) on top of casually lunching power supplies every few years to the point I gave up. That may be a similar thing going on here. You may not be able to run Windows 10 64-bit over some sort of red herring feature issue but there's nothing stopping you from turning that system into a makeshift NAS. Your board is an
HP A8M2N and without looking for the manual that sounds like another nForce feature product with integrated video and gigabit ethernet. It has 3x PCI slots and luckily a single full size PCI Express g2x16 slot. I suggest choosing a card for it carefully. You have 4x DDR2 era memory slots that can max out at 4GB and I wouldn't waste time attempting to cram more, especially if you're not able to set the memory timings but also good luck finding appropriate 533/667 DIMMs that work with it. What you already have is most likely what you get. There also appears to be support for up to 4x USB, 4x IDE and 4x SATA 3Gb/s connections.
Culturally, 4444 is a really horrific number combination but I'll ignore my own Japanese screeching and move on.
I need to direct your attention to this area:
That cute little NF-430 chip is the kind of signature I'd expect from an nForce4 controller from that 2005-2010 era of parts. This is okay but not great. You're going to frequently run into bizarre inexplicable I/O saturation issues between IDE and SATA when using more than two drives on the default drivers, which
is still an unresolved issue. If you expect to have lots of uptime on WinXP, Win7, Vista or 2008, expect the nVidia nForce Serial ATA Controller driver to lunch the entire system with a kernel panic/reboot every 24h16min. The way I worked around this was switching to a Standard Dual Channel PCI IDE Controller driver. I have not been able to measure any performance hit from doing this.
Doesn't the anthlon have integrated graphics?
The shiny tin in the top left is the other issue. Under that is the GeForce 6150 chip that handles your integrated video features. It doesn't come from the Athlon and it doesn't have its own dedicated memory set like the later Radeon chips. If it's a DOG in Windows it's roadkill before loading linux desktop. When rummaging through the list of adapters on UserBenchmark it is #1 from the bottom. Quite literally the very last thing you want in any system but there it is. The 6150SE I have is #6 from the bottom and exactly what you'd expect.
The reason I bring this up is the feature set and location. It is the same typical chipset location for every board where this becomes a thermal trouble spot without airflow. I don't need to pull out the thermal probe to tell you that's gonna be hotter than the CPU and while this arrangement hasn't given me any trouble, it was revised for a reason. I suggest keeping an eye on the temps in HWInfo and use your best discretion.
That's all I've got. Good luck.
