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should i upgrade to windows 7?
these are my specs:
intel pentium 4 2.6 ghz (ht enabled)
1.5 gb ram
80 gb hard drive
ati radeon 9600
these are my specs:
intel pentium 4 2.6 ghz (ht enabled)
1.5 gb ram
80 gb hard drive
ati radeon 9600
is 2 gb ram and 3.2 ghz pentium 4 enough
I have a box with those same specs. It's barely adequate for XP, good enough for a print server. But definitely not adequate for Windows 7.
just take notes for Microsoft, it says:If you want to run Windows 7 on your PC, here's what it takes:
1 gigahertz (GHz) or faster 32-bit (x86) or 64-bit (x64) processor
1 gigabyte (GB) RAM (32-bit) or 2 GB RAM (64-bit)
16 GB available hard disk space (32-bit) or 20 GB (64-bit)
DirectX 9 graphics device with WDDM 1.0 or higher driver
So according to your configuration, it's okay for u to update to windows 7
i will install 32 bit not 64 bit
My recent experience with upgrading from Xp to Win7.
If using the the "classic" desktop the screen redraw speed is slow (processor usage shoots up) when dragging a window over another one,(Dual Core Processor, ATI HD4600) I had to install a custom "classic" Aero theme to solve this.
if you are happy using the standard Aero theme, that works fine.
For your machine spec, I would stick with Xp, the only reason I upgraded was to use the extra memory I had installed.