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I just installed Vista on a 550.
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Name: jackbomb
Date: July 14, 2006 at 10:31:39 Pacific
Subject: I just installed Vista on a 550.OS: Windows XP Media CenterCPU/Ram: x2 4800/4GBModel/Manufacturer: jackbomb |
Comment: *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?
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Name: jackbomb
Date: July 14, 2006 at 11:48:03 Pacific
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Reply: (edit)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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Name: mr.spock
Date: July 15, 2006 at 16:38:47 Pacific
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Reply: (edit)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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Name: jefro
Date: July 18, 2006 at 15:46:55 Pacific
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Reply: (edit)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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