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I just installed Vista on a 550.
Name: jackbomb Date: July 14, 2006 at 10:31:39 Pacific OS: Windows XP Media Center CPU/Ram: x2 4800/4GB Product: jackbomb
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*TURN YOUR IMAGES ON!*
Runs just fine, even with Aero enabled. Microsoft and their minimum requirement BS. :P
This is a first-gen P3-550. You know, the big cartridge-style P3 with external L2 cache? Yet it still runs OK.
Remember when people were saying that Vista would require dual-core 4GHz CPUs and 4 gigs of RAM to run?
Name: jackbomb Date: July 14, 2006 at 11:48:03 Pacific
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Didn't time it, but I remember putting in the disk and setting it up at around 8:00 and when I came back at 9:30 it was all finished.
So it took less than 1:30.
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Response Number 5
Name: mr.spock Date: July 15, 2006 at 16:38:47 Pacific
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how much memory does that system have?
I wanted to try it out on my spare p3 866 which has 192 megs, but i assume that it only works with 512 or higher.
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Response Number 6
Name: Pistal Date: July 16, 2006 at 08:43:59 Pacific
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any ideal where you can download it now, the time is up
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Response Number 7
Name: jefro Date: July 18, 2006 at 15:46:55 Pacific
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There were some issues with the P3's that suggested that they could be better than what the replacement was on some stuff. Might be that vista does run fine on a P3 and not a dual Xeon P4.
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