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would windows 7 run on this system?

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  • 04-01-2012 9:35pm
    #1
    darego
    Registered Users Posts: 1,727 ✭✭✭


    a friend asked me to install windows 7 on his pc but it's getting on and i don't know if i should try install it

    specs from terminal
    niamh-desktop
    description: Computer
    width: 32 bits
    *-core
    description: Motherboard
    physical id: 0
    *-memory
    description: System memory
    physical id: 0
    size: 1001MiB
    *-cpu
    product: Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.50GHz
    vendor: Intel Corp.
    physical id: 1
    bus info: cpu@0
    version: 15.2.7
    size: 18EHz
    width: 32 bits

    it's currently running ubuntu


    cheers


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    #2
    RoyalMarine
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,824 ✭✭✭RoyalMarine


    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
    (your pc meets this requirement)

    1 gigabyte (GB) RAM (32-bit) or 2 GB RAM (64-bit)
    (your pc meets this requirement)

    16 GB available hard disk space (32-bit) or 20 GB (64-bit)
    (I assume your pc meets this requirement)

    DirectX 9 graphics device with WDDM 1.0 or higher driver
    (your pc meets this requirement)

    so yes, it should run it. There are lite version of windows 7 available with a lot of the heavy intensive stuff ripped from it. its designed for laptops, but will run fine on a desktop too.


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    Serephucus
    Registered Users Posts: 7,180 ✭✭✭Serephucus


    Yes, it will run, but barely.

    Honestly, you're probably better with Ubuntu on a system like that.


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    #4
    dan_ep82
    Registered Users Posts: 2,720 ✭✭✭dan_ep82


    Not sure if Ubuntu can run it but worth a shot
    http://windows.microsoft.com/upgradeadvisor
    It will tell you if you can run it.


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    #5
    D'Artagnan
    Registered Users Posts: 35 ✭D'Artagnan


    I've had Windows 7 successfully run on a:
    Athlon 64 3500+ which is probably equivalent to a Pentium 4 running at 3.4Ghz
    1 GB RAM

    I found that Windows 7 was perfectly happy on 1GB RAM but if you have several programs open at one time you will run into problems. Comparing the machines to other far more powerful machines you would find it hard to guess which one was running on the old hardware. Basically Win 7 runs very well on old hardware.


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