Windows 7 on old pc?

ratman said:

I have a 6 or so year old computer that was custom built to be the best of its time but nowadays it is very sluggish with all the antivirus etc. It runs windows 2000 and i think it has 2gb of ram and a 1.8 GHz processor.
My question is: will it run windows 7 rc1 easily?

Go for it

Windows 7 on OLD computers


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yeah it will run Windows 7 but I think Win2k is the faster operating system if you do a clean install. The only problem with Win2K is that you probably can't get Windows updates much longer.

EDIT - Well okay, Win2K is old and boring. But it's fast and stable.

kopka said:

i have pentium 4 3ghz and 2gb of ram i have a great graphic card
GeForce 9600GT that support directX 10 and i want to see how it is
should i try win7 x32 on that pc?

I have a similar system and Windows 7 runs better than XP did. Go for it.

ratman said:

I have a 6 or so year old computer that was custom built to be the best of its time but nowadays it is very sluggish with all the antivirus etc. It runs windows 2000 and i think it has 2gb of ram and a 1.8 GHz processor.
My question is: will it run windows 7 rc1 easily?

Windows 7 runs on my pc(which have a lower speed and memory than yours check my system spec) without any problem. So i hope it will run perfectly on your pc.

jimbo45 said:

If W7 recognizes your disks then why not.
If it doesn't work you've only wasted around 30 mins as you'll soon find out whether it will install or not.

You could possibly find Video driver problems but a 6 year old computer is 100% capable of running XP so you should be fine.

I wouldn't however want to try running the latest copy of Photoshop CS4 with HUGE files or running any serious video multi-media on this type of gear however.

Cheers
jimbo

My computer can runs photoshop CS4 without any problem..
Some days ago I also tried to run Crysis on this pc and guess what I runs although with a lower frame rate. But it can run.