XP on older machines

[davelectronic]

Hi to you all. Iam a new member with some, i would say intermediate experience. what i am looking to try is to see if windows XP home edition will run on a Dell Dimension XPS T450 pentium 3 . Ive looked into it and inital searches surgests it will. My question is what do experienced members think, its a curiousity for me, the Dell Dimension is original spec, i know some upgrades might be required, HDD size memory etc, but i would like to stick with the 450mhz cpu speed. Any idaes appreciated. Dave.

[KenB]

Hi Dave

 

This is from Microsoft - Minimum Requirements for XP

 

Pentium 233-megahertz (MHz) processor or faster (300 MHz is recommended)

At least 64 megabytes (MB) of RAM (128 MB is recommended)

At least 1.5 gigabytes (GB) of available space on the hard disk

CD-ROM or DVD-ROM drive

Keyboard and a Microsoft Mouse or some other compatible pointing device

Video adapter and monitor with Super VGA (800 x 600)or higher resolution

 

It suggests 128MB RAM.

Personally I would recommend 512MB minimum otherwise it will run really slowly. ( depends what you have running )

 

What is on the system at the moment - Win98 ?

[Armageddon]

Hi Dave I have a friend running a stripped down XP System running on 64mb of ram and a 6gb hard drive yes this works but its only the basics , it does get her online and on msn etc and she's happy personally though I agree with KenB's comments on having at least 512mb of ram

[davelectronic]

Older pc's

 

Thanks for your reply's, i had an idea it was going to be 512mb for reasonable use, not fast, i had seen the MS requirements, but wanted to see if anyone was actually doing anything similar with an older machine, thanks for your input. Dave.

[KenB]

Hi Dave

 

How much RAM do you have at the moment ?