Windows 7 on older machine?

[greg_SA]

Hi,

I have a oldish machine, with the specs below, and I've been running WinXP for the last few years. I need to do a fresh install of the OS, and I was wondering if I should install Windows 7 instead?

I have read some posts were people say that Windows 7 performs basically the same a WinXP on the same machine.

AMD 3200+ (socket 939 2.2GHz?)
1GB Dual DDR RAM
1TB HDD
6600GT Graphics

What are your opinions? I could get another GB of RAM, if necessary. How do you think Windows 7 will perform vs WinXP?

Regards,
Greg

 

[Rodent-Boy]

I reckon it'll be about the same. The extra RAM won't hurt, of course.

 

[SirFooK'nG]

Chuck an extra gig of ram, it will run fine! I got Win7 on an old toshiba 1.6ghz lappy with 2 gig of ram...

Change it because you can... lol. Win7 is nice!

 

[LazyLion]

It will run on that machine as is... but the extra Gig of RAM will make a nice difference.

 

[Drake2007]

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[Rudimental]

Well if you just borrow an installation disk you'll be able to see how it runs. You can install windows 7 without a key and then buy it after and activate it.

 

[Budza]

I have a 939 3500+ (can clock to ~2.8 or 3Ghz, but running @ 2.2 for now)
1.5GB RAM
250GB HDD
and a 6600GT

Works perfectly

 

[DrJohnZoidberg]

Would suggest another gig of ram too, Windows 7's memory management is tons better than Vista's, but 1 gig will get used up pretty quickly.

 

[ponder]

Will run just fine with another gig of ram.

 

[greg_SA]

Cool, thanks for all the advice

Win 7 sounds like a good idea ;-)

 

[Schwartz]

I read somewhere that someone installed it on a P2 PC! It took 17 hours though

 

[Praeses]

I installed it on a P3 800 with 512MB ram...ran fine for proxy usage. Upgraded it now to a 1.4GHz P3 Unfortunately the motherboard doesn't support more than 512MB ram

 

[Park@82]

I am running it on a older laptop with 1GB ram, I would also recommend more ram but if you cant try using ReadyBoost if you have an extra memory stick lying around.

 

[repitah]

Running Win7 on a P4 2.4 (socket 478) and 2GB RAM ... runs fine for a +-2004 machine