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How slow will this computer run Windows 7?

How slow will this computer run Windows 7?

Postby mnemonicj » Wed Jul 08, 2009 9:29 pm

How slow will this computer run Windows 7?

Compaq Presario V2565US
1.8 GHz AMD Turion 64 ML-32 (512 KB L2 cache)
80 GB hard drive
512 MB of RAM
ATI Radeon XPress 200M IGP video/graphics card with 128MB shared memory

At least I am not putting Windows Vista on it. :lol:

EDIT: Found out that it has 2GB of RAM, DDR PC2700. That will definitely help even though Windows 7 gave the computer a performance score of 1.0 because of the graphics card.
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Re: How slow will this computer run Windows 7?

Postby JabbaPapa » Wed Jul 08, 2009 10:14 pm

I don't think you will even be able to install W7 on a computer with less than 1GB RAM

EDIT : Oh OK just saw your edit -- probably the only way to get some half decent performance out of that would be to plug in a 2-4 GB USB Flash drive for ReadyBoost
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Re: How slow will this computer run Windows 7?

Postby augie » Wed Jul 08, 2009 10:30 pm

Check this out people. Granted, you could grow very old waiting for it to install! :lol:

Although he didn't say how long it took him to install or boot the operating system, other forum users have chimed in and timed the installation for a Pentium III-based system at a low 17 continuous hours. And the boot time? 17 minutes.


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Re: How slow will this computer run Windows 7?

Postby Grav!ty » Wed Jul 08, 2009 11:40 pm

I think it will run just fine on that system, based on the final Win 7 system requirements anyway:

* 1GHz processor (32- or 64-bit)
* 1GB of main memory
* 16GB of available disk space
* Support for DX9 graphics with 128MB of memory (for the Aero interface)
* A DVD-R/W drive

Just the graphics that may give you a problem as you mention, if it's not DX9 ready.
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Re: How slow will this computer run Windows 7?

Postby mnemonicj » Thu Jul 09, 2009 1:17 am

Come to find out, after the drivers were updated for the ATI video card, the performance score went up to 2.0 and the Aero interface is enabled.
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Re: How slow will this computer run Windows 7?

Postby augie » Thu Jul 09, 2009 1:46 am

mnemonicj wrote:Come to find out, after the drivers were updated for the ATI video card, the performance score went up to 2.0 and the Aero interface is enabled.


That's excellent! ^*^
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