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19-April-04, 06:13 PM
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| Apex Tech God  Join Date: Nov 2003 Location: Arrgh!!! in a pirate ship watching me video CDs and listen to MP3s
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   |  Windows XP on sloooow machine??? I have a customer with an HP XE783 running the biggest turn of an OS - Windows ME. She is having horrible spyware/virus/security problems and in the process of repairing the PC would like Windows XP Home installed. Specs on this beast are: Intel 700 MHz celeron 30 gb hard drive 319 mb RAM - she upgraded this recently but not thru me so Im guessing original 64 plus 256 mb chip minus shared video RAM No problems with the hard drive thats plenty and the RAM is OK too. Intel 810 chipset so the video/mobo drivers can be found for XP - the only problem may be sound card but if I can get drivers I will just grab a cheapy of newegg. The Question: I have never used XP on anything weenier than 1.7 GHz. She has basic office task needs for this PC and uses broadband internet. Anyone using a PC with similar specs and can they comments on how it runs - no benchmarks just real world subjective.
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19-April-04, 06:23 PM
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| Sk8-Hoe-r  Join Date: Apr 2003 Location: Chesterfield, MI
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 | Would run like a charm, ive had a customer with it on a 233 and it ran fine. Had 784 ram though. But 300 should be plenty. I have it on a p600, 196 ram. Runs fine, your good to go 
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19-April-04, 06:26 PM
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| Apex Tech God  Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: Somerset, England UK........ News Threads: 8,143
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 |  no problems there at all m8 - the lowest and still stable spec ive put XP on was: -K62 450 -180MB RAM -20GB HDD -8MB VIDEO it still pumles through loading and handles well, though patience is required when loading big things. also ask her if she wants some security software on there  mite get you some extra $ in hand.just for future reference, the lowest spec is about this, exept the ram is 128, and a 10 gb hdd for space.
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19-April-04, 06:30 PM
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| Apex Master Tech  Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: Boston, Massachusetts
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 | pentium II 450mhz 12gb hard drive 256mb ram 16mb diamond viper video runs fine. i say do it.
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19-April-04, 06:37 PM
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| Freck-hoe-d  Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: TejAs!
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| Only thing is maybe ram, I think they recommend you have at least 512mb to run it smoothly. But thats my two cents.
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19-April-04, 06:46 PM
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| Apex Master Tech  Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: Norman, OK
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| look at the sig. runs beautifully, and has for a long time.
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19-April-04, 06:54 PM
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| Lokie's Personal WU-Hoe Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: WI
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| XP is running on the familie's machine which consists of the following: P2 350mhz 192mb PC100 RAM Onboard video 10gig slow HDD Not one of the slowest listed here, but just another example of many that it can be done with ease. All the eye candy should be turned off, although the installation usually does this for you. |
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19-April-04, 06:58 PM
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| Bi P-Hoe-lar  Join Date: Jan 2004
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| It'll go. Don't worry about it.
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19-April-04, 07:56 PM
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| Apex Master Tech  Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: Mass
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| my bro runs a celeron 600 with 256mb ram and he has no problems. he can even play mp3s using winamp while on in the background and playing counter-strike at a decent frame rate....so long as he isn't in de_aztec 
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19-April-04, 08:06 PM
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| Apex Tech God  Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: Always on the RUN!!!
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| Looks like your question has been answered!! I just thought I would add to it that I have a few similiar comps running XP and they are fine....and I have a old laptop with the almost exact same specs running great!!! So theres my 2 cents!!! |
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