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Vista Home Premium x64

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letired

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Hi everybody,

Preparing for my new system I recently bought a new case/PSU and a copy of Vista Home Premium x64. I'm waiting on availability of the new e8400 chips to upgrade that section of my system and I'll grab a new GPU sometime in-between.

I am currently running a really dated system, but I was curious to see if I could install this new copy of vista on it, as I'm in dire need of a reformat and my XP disks are long gone...

I know I barely meet the minimum specs, but do you guys think it would even be worth installing to familiarize myself with the OS? I ran XP x64 for a while wayyyy back (in the computing world) when it was still in Beta, but there were barely any drivers available...now it seems for all my hardware there is stuff for Vistax64

Thanks!

Spencer

SPECS

CPU Type - AMD Athlon 64, (2200 MHz) 3500+ [SOCKET 939] NEWCASTLE
Motherboard Name - MSI K8N Neo4 Platinum (MS-7125)
Motherboard Chipset - nVIDIA nForce4 Ultra, AMD Hammer
System Memory - 1 Gb (PC3200 DDR SDRAM)OCZ OCZ4001024PDC-K@ 200 MHz 2.5-3-3-7

Display
Video Adapter - NVIDIA GeForce 7800 GT (256 MB)

Multimedia
Audio Adapter Creative SB0090 Audigy Player Sound Card

Storage
Disk Drive SAMSUNG (160 GB, 7200 RPM, Ultra-ATA/133)
Disk Drive WDC (74 GB, IDE)
 
It'll run OK on that power of a system --
the RAM is a little low,
the GPU is great,
the CPU is decent.

I think if you have a few hours to invest in doing the install / configuration / backup / restore / downloading updates / whatever processes you have to do to get it running on your existing PC, you would find that it is quite usable.

I didn't catch what you may have said would happen with your old system when you get the better hardware.

The only downside of installing Vista on your existing hardware is once you do get the better system to install Vista on, you'll possibly have to find something else to install on your old system (if you're going to keep using it) so it can also be useful, which I guess would mean going back to XP or whatever you own for that.

Personally I'd make sure I downloaded / installed Vista SP1 on the system BEFORE I did a large amount of software customization on it, installed a lot of apps, restored a lot of your data, whatever. You can see how to get SP1 through Windows Update or by downloading the full installer files in the other threads if you care.

 
Thanks - Yeah it will likely be a slow sort of conversion process, transferring components out which will eventually turn into enough stuff to make a second (crappier) machine out of. Start with Mobo/Ram/CPU and move from there. Creating two systems isn't really the intention of my upgrades, I just want a faster gaming machine, so the extreme usability of a second system isn't of the utmost importance. I just wanted to see if there was some fiddling I could do on Vista with my current hardware before I can get my hands on an e8400.
 
Go ahead and install it, might be fun and you'd be surprised how well it might run even on your older system. Just don't enter your product key or activate it since you'll be reinstalling it and activating it on different hardware down the road. You have 30 days before the activation period. If this is an OEM license, though, I don't think this is technically within the EULA to allow you to install on one machine without activating before installing it on the machine that's eventually going to run it permanantly.
 
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