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vista and old hardware
by markoweb on Thu 5th Jul 2007 16:24 UTC
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Had an Athlon64 3200+ (s939), 4x256MB DDR 400Mhz, ATI X1300 and Vista ran like a charm, even the beta ones. Even played games quite normally (Quake 4 for instance).
Although I admit there were minor hickups sometimes opening windows, but nothing all to bad.

There are three things that can really hurt vista on older hardware:
1) 5400 rpm HardDrives
2) Crappy motherboards and drivers (mind you I have seen plenty of motherboards which cause 100% CPU usage even under clean installed XP during idle -> some sort of physical error on some cunductor probably...)
3) Slow RAM (< 400 Mhz).

In my experience you get roughly the same usablity for the following RAM ammounts:
256 XP = 512 Vista (do turn off AERO here ;) )
512 XP = 1024 Vista
1024 XP = 2048 Vista

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RE: vista and old hardware
by Nephelim on Thu 5th Jul 2007 16:41 in reply to "vista and old hardware"
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But if it were as you tell, which is the killer application that makes you need Vista to "run like a charm" on your system that would not run under Windows XP as if it had twice the memory, which would run at least like let's say one and a half charm :-) ?

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RE[2]: vista and old hardware
by stooovie on Thu 5th Jul 2007 16:48 in reply to "RE: vista and old hardware"
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For me it's mainly system-wide search and filtering (i am in publishing and it speeds work up very much), quick sleep/wake, new mediacenter and multimedia functionality, Explorer with giant thumbnails (I find files much quicker this way), Wi-Fi connectivity without constant nagging, and many little improvements like per-app volume (invaluable!) drag-n-drop customization of favorite folders in Windows Explorer. Those aren't killer features, but simplify things a lot. There is no known virus for Vista yet, and it's as fast (or slow?) as XP on both my computers (not exactly top notch - A64 3k+, 1,5 GB RAM and GF6600 and laptop P-M 1,7G, 1 GB RAM and X700). I have no problems with HW (even specialty like Cotour Shuttle for my video editing) and most SW. Your mileage may vary.

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