Windows 7 on old pc?

[ratman]

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?

 

[DocBrown]

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

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[sup3rsprt]

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.

 

[ratman]

Thanks

Thanks for your advice, I will do it soon.

 

[kopka]

what about my old pc

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?

 

[jimbo45]

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

 

[TheSchaft]

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.

 

[septprince]

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.

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.

 

[Flik]

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?

My old PC, which now belongs to my daughter has similar specs... P.4 3.2, 2 gig ram with Nvidia 6800GT.
I installed the RC on it (32 bit) for her and it runs perfectly.

Good luck and enjoy

 

[jfar]

Definitely go for it, you wont be disapointed.

 

[ratman]

Ok, i did it

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

Thanks. I did the install (the pc has two hard drives so i dual booted) and all went well except for what you said about the video driver problems. I have an nvidia geforce3 Ti 200 graphics card but i need a driver that is compatible with windows 7.

Also whe i said before that the pc had 2gb of ram i found out that it has only 512mb of it.

 

[Tews]

Have you tried installing the Vista driver in compatibility mode??