Windows 7 performance on my machine

[Poofy McPoofjohnson]

I am looking to install Windows 7 on my machine which is about 6.5 years old now (built in summer of 2003) and was wondering if the following specs would allow it to run smoothly or if I would just end up having a sluggish experience.

Specs:
AMD Athlon XP 2100+ (1.83Ghz)
Corsair 1.5GB DDR400
IBM Deskstar 40GB HD 7200RPM ATA133
Seagate Barracuda 400GB HD 7200RPM ATA133
MSI K7N2-Delta (nForce2 Ultra chipset)
MSI GeForce4 Ti4200 128MB (will upgrade this video card to enable Aero)

Thanks.

 

[ViRGE]

It won't be a particularly great experience, but it should be workable based on my own experiences with a similar laptop. Although I hope you're buying a retail edition of Win7 (so you can move the license), as that hardware is quickly going out of date.

 

[MrTransistorm]

The hardest part will be finding drivers. Vista drivers usually work in Win7, but not always. XP drivers most likely will not work.

 

[SimMike2]

My notebook has similar hardware and it runs Vista just fine. Your setup should run Windows 7 just fine. Your hardware looks like nothing out of the unusual, so my guess is Win7 will have built in drivers for most everything.

 

[JackMDS]

Just put in a modest newer Video card and it would work OK.

 

[notposting]

Probably check out nforcershq forum for info on drivers--I seem to remember people had to cobble together nForce2 drivers for Vista.

 

[Mem]

I actually had beta version running ok ie smooth enough (I used that for Win7 testing)on one of my old backup PCs,1GB Ram,9700 ATI card,XP 1700+ CPU,nforce 2 motherboard.