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tricktx
10-18-2002, 12:56 PM
hey guys just a quick one

i have just formatted my friends hard disk and was wondering if her rig can take windows xp

cyrix m2 300
168mb sd ram
4gb hard disk
8meg 3d card



or should she stick with 98se

cheers
richard
BipolarBill
10-18-2002, 01:05 PM
I don't recommend WinXP for that rig. Win2K would be OK, but more memory would make a world of difference.

Realistically, I'd recommend these minimums for XP:

750MHz CPU
256MB RAM

I ran XP on a 400 Celeron w/256MB RAM with minimal added programs and it was sloooow. Add some spyware and you have real agony. :(
tricktx
10-18-2002, 01:07 PM
cheers bill for the quick responce. will re-install 98se for her

:t
richard
chubtub
10-18-2002, 01:08 PM
The min Specs are
233 MHz
64 meg of RAM
1.5 GB of free space

What they recommend
300 MHz
128 Meg RAM
4gb Hard Drive


Which means that you make the cut, but I would not recommend putting it on there it would be too slow. You would have to tone down all the eye candy that makes it look cool to get it to run fine, but give it a try worst case is you just install an older OS that needs less overhead.
chubtub
10-18-2002, 01:09 PM
Dang Bill is fast I am going to have to speed things up here to keep up.
Midknyte
10-18-2002, 01:17 PM
Get used to it. I get beaten out all the time. LOL

Bill is quick on the draw. I mean type.
strat1
10-18-2002, 02:16 PM
Bi Polar Bill (http://www.geocities.com/HotSprings/Spa/3247/bi-polar.html) is DA MAN! Sometimes I get emails with my question answered fully and correctly before I even hit the 'Submit' button!
BipolarBill
10-18-2002, 02:19 PM
Yep - NOT! :rolleyes:


:D
Giblet Plus!
10-18-2002, 03:52 PM
Looks like it took him a mere 3 minutes to respond to that one. :D
tricktx
10-18-2002, 03:55 PM
yeah that guys faster then a whippit with a bum full of dynamite:r
Jawa
10-18-2002, 07:41 PM
I have..

1.15GHz Duron, 40GB HDD, 384MB DDR and GF2Ti

.. running XP Pro, and gaming isn't all that great.

I would advise anyone to have at least an AthlonXP 1600+ before going XP. :(
Bizkitkid2001
10-18-2002, 10:00 PM
My 300Mhz pentium II ran great with windows XP games were fast and no slow downs.

It also had 256mb of pc100 and two 8 gig drives.


Also I think an AMD XP 1600+ is kinda hi. My other computer which is a 1.2ghz t'bird runs win xp without any problems, faster than 98:t
tricktx
10-18-2002, 11:07 PM
well ive put 98se back on. cheers guys


also i have been looking up some other topics accross the net on xp and it seems that a good spec for it would be say 500MHZ + 128 Ram for XP. obviously you can run it on a slower machine but apart from JAWA no-one with specs over this have probs with cp running slowly.

p.s. its not that great anyway:r :r :r


richard
BipolarBill
10-18-2002, 11:11 PM
Well, When I have 256MB RAM and minimal apps running, 120MB of mem is in use. You'll be paging like a big dog on 128MB.
kimike
10-19-2002, 04:33 PM
Specs--256MB RAM, 1.3GHz Athlon, 40GB HDD, 7200 rpm, Win xp home
Performance-Could be better, depends on what you run with it (games, apps, ..)
tricktx
10-19-2002, 10:59 PM
just a thought how do you lot judge the speed of an OS. Do you have a software prog for it or just by observation. to me xp seems the same as 98 ME 2000 etc for speed. apps load when i click them. internet loads exactly the same games run exactly the same. only in win2000 did games drop in framerate.

i dont think microsoft will have designed xp to have to have say a 1.5ghz processor in order to run smoothly then it would lose 80% of its market. remember we demand much more out of our pc than the average user does


richard