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Whats the lowest spec machine people have Home Premium Running on

  • 24-02-2007 4:09pm
    #1
    godtabh
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 23,231 Mod ✭✭✭✭


    Title says it all.

    Havent installed mine yet. I reckon I need some more ram first but what have other peoples experience been?


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  • #2
    Villain
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,951 ✭✭✭✭Villain


    I have seen it run on P4 3ghz with 512mb Ram seemed ok, depends on what you want to do on it i.e. games etc.

    I have Ultimate running on a P4 3.2ghz, 1.5gb Ram and its perfect, although I haven't installed a graphics card yet as I'm doing any gaming, using it for Media Center mainly. My Score is 4.2 for CPU, 4.3 for Ram and 2 for graphics.


  • #3
    Tivoli
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,008 ✭✭✭Tivoli


    i installed vista ultimate on a 1.2ghz duron with 504mb of ram, it was not fast, but it was more then useable


  • #4
    ethernet
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,568 ✭✭✭ethernet


    Running Ultimate RC2 on P4 3.2 GHz, 512 MB RAM. A little sluggish but operational. Managed to edit the registry to enable Aero. This hasn't really eaten into RAM. In fact, moving windows around is much smoother. I suppose that's down to the graphics card getting some use.


  • #5
    8T8
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,757 ✭✭✭8T8


    Slowest is my notebook on a Sempron mobile 3200, not so fast HD & with 512MB of RAM some of which is stolen by the GPU runs okay definitely usable. Vista's own internal system benchmark (WinSAT) disabled Aero Glass as it deemed it not up to the task but when I throw in 1GB of RAM it should enable it.

    HTPC Athlon 64 3200+ 2GB RAM , GeForce 7300LE with Aero Glass enabled runs great very snappy & fast to boot as well no complaints at all.


  • #6
    ethernet
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,568 ✭✭✭ethernet


    8T8 wrote:
    ... Vista's own internal system benchmark (WinSAT) disabled Aero Glass as it deemed it not up to the task but when I throw in 1GB of RAM it should enable it ...
    Have people had any luck in getting Aero by just using the ReadyBoost solution [using a memory stick for RAM]?

    Of course, adding more RAM is the best solution, but I wonder if ReadyBoost would also work, especially for machines with 512 MB RAM.


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  • #7
    tman
    Closed Accounts Posts: 16,339 ✭✭✭✭tman


    Running it on an Athlon xp 2500+ with 1GB of ram myself and it's sweet as a nut
    wouldn't want to try it with any less ram than that though


  • #8
    weeder
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,469 ✭✭✭weeder


    2.4GHz P4 512Mb ram 54k rpm drive radeon 9250

    runs vista quite fast imo

    no aero though which isnt a loss


  • #9
    8T8
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,757 ✭✭✭8T8


    ethernet wrote:
    Have people had any luck in getting Aero by just using the ReadyBoost solution [using a memory stick for RAM]?

    Of course, adding more RAM is the best solution, but I wonder if ReadyBoost would also work, especially for machines with 512 MB RAM.

    I don't think Readyboost would be enough though it definitely helps on 512MB systems. WinSAT disabled it for good reason I imagine as that's what WinSAT does measures the systems performance and then sees what will work and what wont work (well it may work just painfully slow which is why they turn certain eye candy off).

    You can force it (Aero Glass) I believe at least in some of the early betas or RC versions but I think that has been removed from the final version but I'm not entirely sure.

    The easiest way to enable Aero Glass is run the Windows Experience benchmarks which is just WinSAT once you have installed the display driver for your DX9 GPU and it has access to 64MB of RAM or more. You can get by in a pinch with 32MB but only at low resolutions like 1024x768.

    Ideally 1GB is preferable with Aero Glass enabled but it should work with 512MB but it is cutting it fairly close.


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