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Which OS would have the best performance on this computer?
Hi,
I'm thinking about which OS should I install on this computer to get the best performance possible.
Currently there's no budget to upgrade it. (It'd require a major upgrade including motherboard, CPU, RAM etc.)
I own a Windows XP and Windows 7 license so these are what I can choose from.
I know XP is outdated. I Personally I prefer Windows 7 (I'm running it on my other computer) on this computer, the performance is just not decent. It's generally slow even though I do regular maintenance on it. (Defrag, junk cleaning etc. I'm very careful about registry cleaning though as it *could* done some damage so I don't do that)
So the question is:
Which OS is better for this computer? XP or 7?
Should I install XP or should I try to further optimize Windows 7 to run better on this computer? If so how?
System details:
Motherboard: Asus M2V
CPU: AMD Athlon 64 3500+ (Single core, original Athlon series)
RAM: 2 GB DDR2
GPU: NVIDIA 9400GT
HDD: 200GB SATA
Thanks!