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Help Plz - Min Specs for Win XP

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Richter

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I know the box says 300MHz/128MB. I have the RAM covered, but the performance is less than stellar with a PII 300MHz.

This is not my machine and I have limited funds to get this machine up and running XP.

Post if you are using WIN XP with a lower end processor. please and leave your thoughts on how to procede. (I'm really looking for people with lower end machines that are running xp becvause I have an abundance of 18 month old+ parts I want to use if i can)

Thanks in advance,
Richter
 
the lowest end computer i've installed it on is a Celeron 500. Seems to run pretty nice. But expect slow down over time, although you have lots of options to turn down graphic enhancements and might speed it up a little. Good luck.
 
slowest machine i ran it on , was a k6-2/500 with 64mb of ram with 4mb used for video. it wasnt THAT slow. it was pretty slow.


For the p2, i think the cpu should be ok, as i've run machines with 2k with that. but with 128mb it may have to swap a bit, and the hard drive is probably ancient. i saw a 20 gig maxtor at best buy for $50 with no rebates, so maybe a new hard drive would help or more ram. or both . also i'd go to performance options, and turn off all the pretty stuff. also i'd turn off system restore. that will really speed it up
 
I installed it last night on a PII I believe, 333 mhz, w/ 288 mb of ram, and its OK. Its not fast, but the XP really cleaned the whole system up and is a lot better than WIn 98.
 
I have XP-Pro on an APTIVA K6-350 with on board sound and video. Boosted the RAM to 256megs of PC100. It runs okay but the video is not real fast until you set it to run Windows Classic...still isn't fast but acceptable. Also, I replaced the old original 5,400 RPM hard drive with a spare 7,200 RPM one that has faster access times and that helps too. The amount of disk activity is unreal to me vs. 98SE. My plan was to install it on this machine to play around and find the best tweaks until I had finished my Athlon XP system. Now, I dunno.
 
I tried W2K pro and WinXP home on P2-233 machine with 160MB - no problems, smooth.
Make sure harddrive is fast too.
 
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