[Paulcopy]

Hi,
Been a while since I've been on, so xp running good for me now. Time for an upgrade........ Headache or no major worries

system specs: amd athlon 1800+
asrock k7vt2
agp nvidia geforce 5200 128 mb
1 Gb pc 2100 non ecc
xp pro sp2 for now
Dial Up ! wooo hooo!
thx for replies
Paulcopy

[MySeN]

To be honest, i wouldn't install vista with that spec. Stick with XP, honestly, i only joined up to this forum last week and i can see already how many problems people have had with Vista. It's really is not worth the hassel.

[Paulcopy]

I heard that! used to hate being Gates' test bed, but is my setup just too behind the curve to run it?
btw thx for the rep.

[MySeN]

Well one good thing about Vista is when you install it it bench marks your system to see how good it is. After doing that it will only install what your pc/laptop can handle. but still Vista is a very beefy (to put it in technical terms) OS. you processer simply isn't fast enough and you will need more the 1GB RAM (at least 2gb!).

[Paulcopy]

maybe more than 1 or 2 bottlenecks, huh. that's about my luck, if you upgraded say the mobo/cpu/ ram what would be a fair combo (cheap)?

thx for your replies
Paulcopy

[MySeN]

lol! umm to be honest i'm not sure about general prices at the moment. has been a while since i looked but i know Intel have made a good 2.4 dual core 2 duo CPU, you would also need 2GB DDR2 and mother board i guess depends on what kind of user you are. General bit of surfing email etc, hard core gamer or downloader?

MySeN

[Rich-M]

Originally Posted by Paulcopy

Hi,
Been a while since I've been on, so xp running good for me now. Time for an upgrade........ Headache or no major worries

system specs: amd athlon 1800+
asrock k7vt2
agp nvidia geforce 5200 128 mb
1 Gb pc 2100 non ecc
xp pro sp2 for now
Dial Up ! wooo hooo!
thx for replies
Paulcopy

Stay with XP, this hardware is too old I'm afraid...