What is the minimum specs to run Windows Vista?
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From my own experience:
RAM: 512MB is next unusable but it will run, 1GB is aight but goes turtle in tighter situations, 1.5GB good for general usage and usually does fine even when going gets rough, +2GB will be good for most usage except heavy gaming and other super-memory-hungry apps like certain types of file compression, photo/video editing and the likes.
CPU: 1.8GHz C2D-based single-core Celeron runs Vista just fine and even better. Generally, any Athlon 64, +~2.4GHz P4 or better will run it reasonably well. Any CPU from the last 4 years should handle it easily. Anything older (Athlon XP, Pentium III, original Pentium fours) will struggle in all but basic tasks.
GPU: Even Intel GMA (X3000 or whatever it was called/GMA965) will be fine. Haven't tried it on older GPUs, but I've been hearing that it runs on just about any GPU, you'll just have to turn Aero off on some of the older ones. Of course, you won't be doing any gaming, but it will run.
Hard drive: it will fit on a 40GB drive.
RAM: 512MB is next unusable but it will run, 1GB is aight but goes turtle in tighter situations, 1.5GB good for general usage and usually does fine even when going gets rough, +2GB will be good for most usage except heavy gaming and other super-memory-hungry apps like certain types of file compression, photo/video editing and the likes.
CPU: 1.8GHz C2D-based single-core Celeron runs Vista just fine and even better. Generally, any Athlon 64, +~2.4GHz P4 or better will run it reasonably well. Any CPU from the last 4 years should handle it easily. Anything older (Athlon XP, Pentium III, original Pentium fours) will struggle in all but basic tasks.
GPU: Even Intel GMA (X3000 or whatever it was called/GMA965) will be fine. Haven't tried it on older GPUs, but I've been hearing that it runs on just about any GPU, you'll just have to turn Aero off on some of the older ones. Of course, you won't be doing any gaming, but it will run.
Hard drive: it will fit on a 40GB drive.
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I tryed the Windows Vista Ultimate on the 10 years old PC I have and it works like charm,including playing the games.Here are the PC specifications:
-512 MB of RAM DDR1
-1.6 ghz
-512 KB cache
-Graphic card 64 MB and 400 mhz
-HDD 34 GB capacity (I know its small but back then it was big
)
As for the Windows Vista Ultimate operating system,I have done only the most basic changes:
-Aero was turned off automatically of course
-Then I installed SP1,restarted computer and then installed SP2 and then restarted computer again
-I increased the virtual RAM on 4096 MB (it was the 32-bit edition of course)
-Then I decreased the quality settings on the minimum in the graphic driver options
-And so on...
In any case you do NOT need strong computer to run Windows Vista (any 32-bit edition) at normal speed...including games.:good:
Same for the Windows 7 (any 32-bit edition).I tryed them too.
As for the 64-bit editions of the Windows Vista AND Windows 7,I haven't tryed them yet on my super-old PC,but I am pretty sure that it would work very slow or it wouldn't work at all.
-512 MB of RAM DDR1
-1.6 ghz
-512 KB cache
-Graphic card 64 MB and 400 mhz
-HDD 34 GB capacity (I know its small but back then it was big
)As for the Windows Vista Ultimate operating system,I have done only the most basic changes:
-Aero was turned off automatically of course
-Then I installed SP1,restarted computer and then installed SP2 and then restarted computer again
-I increased the virtual RAM on 4096 MB (it was the 32-bit edition of course
)-Then I decreased the quality settings on the minimum in the graphic driver options
-And so on...
In any case you do NOT need strong computer to run Windows Vista (any 32-bit edition) at normal speed...including games.:good:
Same for the Windows 7 (any 32-bit edition).I tryed them too.
As for the 64-bit editions of the Windows Vista AND Windows 7,I haven't tryed them yet on my super-old PC,but I am pretty sure that it would work very slow or it wouldn't work at all.
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I tryed the Windows Vista Ultimate on the 10 years old PC I have and it works like charm,including playing the games.Here are the PC specifications:
-512 MB of RAM DDR1
-1.6 ghz
-512 KB cache
-Graphic card 64 MB and 400 mhz
-HDD 34 GB capacity (I know its small but back then it was big
As for the Windows Vista Ultimate operating system,I have done only the most basic changes:
-Aero was turned off automatically of course
-Then I installed SP1,restarted computer and then installed SP2 and then restarted computer again
-I increased the virtual RAM on 4096 MB (it was the 32-bit edition of course
-Then I decreased the quality settings on the minimum in the graphic driver options
-And so on...
In any case you do NOT need strong computer to run Windows Vista (any 32-bit edition) at normal speed...including games.:good:
Same for the Windows 7 (any 32-bit edition).I tryed them too.
As for the 64-bit editions of the Windows Vista AND Windows 7,I haven't tryed them yet on my super-old PC,but I am pretty sure that it would work very slow or it wouldn't work at all.
I can see that. Vista ran decent on my moms athlon xp 2600 2.13ghz with 512mb of ram, Geforce fx 5200 128mb. Even runs aero, though for dragging purposes transparencies are disabled for snappier performance. Now it's got Windows 7 home premium and performs even better. It's actually not even annoying to use.
I also remember Vista Ultimate ran quite swiftly on my old computer, a P4 3.0ghz, 1.5gb ram, 256mb ati x700 pro.
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