Vista on Older PC

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Leon79

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I have a PC that was made in 2003. It has:

Asus Motherboard
2 GB of PC2700 SDRAM
512 ATI AGP 8x Graphics card
2.4 Pentium 4 CPU
80 GB Maxtor Hard Drive
500 Watt PSU

The PC was wonderful using XP and was crazy fast. I then updated to Windows Vista Home Premium. It works well until I try to use programs like Moive Maker or Email. Under normal strain it works fine. I rather like the new parts of Vista and want to keep it. I went to a computer store and played around with their computers and found that cheap Pentium Ds and Athlon X2s worked better than mine no lugs when using moive maker or anything. Is this because of my 32 bit processor, low cache, slower ram? Any Thoughts?
 
processor is probably holding most back. go to the performance page in control panel and see what the lowest number is. then upgrade that :P
 
The GPU is ATI Radeon 1650.
The CPU is the lowest rated at 3.4. The ram is rated at 3.5. A double knock out :) More to the point because of motherboard limitations could I do anything else or should I look to replace?

For those who have Vista and newer CPUs, what does Windows rate them?
 
I wouldn't bother changing anything. Not much else you could "really" upgrade for cheap. Just save up for a new machine. For now it should do alright...

As for the rating, I think vista gave my processor a 5.2 or something. However, I'm running it as a virtual system with only a single core simulation.
 
That would run Vista well, if thats all you're worried about.

The big thing with Vista is that you have enough RAM, but 2GB is more then enough. You also have a dedicated video card, so that will handle Aero fairly well.
 
ya everything seems fine, ur RAM is enough, Videocard should be enough for aero. but i got a rating of 5.0 out of 6 soo im all up to date , my computer hardware is my sig
 
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