I was woundering what is the slowest machine you installed vista on and it was useable? and what verson was it of vista? And i mean the released copys and not the bootleged ones....

You can run vista on a pentuim 2 400mhz pc with 64mb of ram installed, but you will be waiting 10 minutes just to get into Vista.

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You can run vista on a pentuim 2 400mhz pc with 64mb of ram installed

You gotta be kidding. The Minimum system requirement for a Vista Capable PC is 800MHz and 512MB RAM. It probably will fully load in 10 minutes.

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i don't wanna know what Micro$oft says... I want to see what you have installed it on and had it running at an ok speed.

Yeah, surely response 1 is some sort of bad joke :P XP requires 64MB minimum and the Vista setup program sure as hell won't start on anything less than 512MB memory.

xp requires 64 MB ram.... my IBM 380XD laptop has 96MB ram and xp wouldn't install... i had to put 2000 pro on it then upgrade to get it to load... any other way (ie. fresh install on blank drive) said not enough ram. so xp setup program was a but buggy i'd say....

XP's "minimum requirement for basic functionality" is 233MHz/64MB. M$ states that this "may limit performance and some features". The recommended minimum is 300MHz/128MB but that's really not enough to run XP well. The keyword here is minimum.

Your 380XD at 266MHz/94MB falls right in between. I would have expected XP to install, but it would have been so painfully slow that you'd probably have reformatted VERY shortly afterward. I can't imagine 2K Pro running very well on that machine either. IMO, that's a Win98SE rig at best...WinME if you know how to tame it.

"Yeah, surely response 1 is some sort of bad joke :P XP requires 64MB minimum and the Vista setup program sure as hell won't start on anything less than 512MB memory."

I ran Vista on my old AMD-K6 550mhz, 256mb of ram, 30gig hard drive, nividia Geforce 4MX card for the hell of it when Vista rc1 came out. It ran, and loaded Vista up in about 20 minutes.LOL. So yeah it does run, but other then seeing if it would run, it shouldn't be used in any other manner.

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Nvidia 7900GT
SATA II 2x 300gig 7200rpm 16mb cache RAID-0+1
Gigabyte Nforce 4 SLI

it took damn near forever to install though.

AMD Athlon 64 X2 4600+ OC 2.7ghz
2GB Dual Channel DDR 3200
Nvidia 7900GT
SATA II 2x 300gig 7200rpm 16mb cache RAID-0+1
Gigabyte Nforce 4 SLI

well, XP on my ibm once i use XP Lite to hack the krap out of it ran nice... but with a small hard dirve i dumped it.

Back on topic.... What ahve you put vista on and had it run ok... A little lag is ok... but not a 5 min boot up and shutdown.

"I ran Vista on my old AMD-K6 550mhz, 256mb of ram, 30gig hard drive, nividia Geforce 4MX card for the hell of it when Vista rc1 came out. It ran, and loaded Vista up in about 20 minutes.LOL. So yeah it does run, but other then seeing if it would run, it shouldn't be used in any other manner."

Blimey, I used to run XP on an almost exact same configuration (550Mhz, 320MB RAM, Geforce4 MX) and that was BAD! I'm not the least bit surprised that it took forever to install lol

733 mhz pIII w. 512 MB ram, geforce 2 and a 7200 rpm hard disc did the vista check for me (40+ min. installation)... but even with all graphic gimmicks disabled, this old PoS didn't get anything near 'performance' :-)

but any p4 (or mad equivalent) with enough memory should run vista quite reasonable, however, it would be outperformed by any machine w. same specs running xp or linux.

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Man i'd love to see how long it would take if someone had a pentium 1 233mhz with 64 EDO ram installed and a 15 gb hard drive.

My guess is it will get to the welcome to Vista installtion windows and then freeze.

AMD Athlon 64 X2 4600+ OC 2.7ghz
2GB Dual Channel DDR 3200
Nvidia 7900GT
SATA II 2x 300gig 7200rpm 16mb cache RAID-0+1
Gigabyte Nforce 4 SLI

Pentium 1? no such thing ... Intel's enumeration only started with Pentium 2

the original Pentium CPUs were clocked at a maximum of 200 MHz, however, Pentium MMX clocked at a max of 233 MHz (some very rare mobile MMX chips up to 300 MHz)

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"the original Pentium CPUs were clocked at a maximum of 200 MHz..."

humm... let me go find my old stash of pentium chips... I have a Pentium 233MHz without MMX. Not mobile nor is it a P2.

huh? would you mind to post an image or the code followed by the clock speed?

Pentium 80500/80501 (60-66 MHz)
Pentium 80502 (75-200 MHz)

Pentium MMX 80503(166-233 MHz)

Pentium PRO 80521 (150-200 MHz)

the Pentium PRO was nice overclocking material but again the official clock speed never exceeded 200 MHz. However, it's design architecture has been used all the way to the Pentium 3, the Pentium 2 was in fact a Pentium PRO with added MMX technology

Today's subliminal thought is: 'Calm down ... it's only ones and zeros.'

Pentium and Pentium 1 is the same thing quit being soo technicaly. Everyone but you seems to know what I mean. It was the first Pentuim of its series so therefor it was also known to many people as the Pentuim 1.

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pentium or pentium 1 ... still, there was no 233 MHz CPU :-)

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The Pentuim MMX was still based on the first generation Pentuim. All the "MMX" did was add accelerate multimedia instructions. So there for the Pentuim 233mhz was still based on the first generation Pentuim.

I mean just because a Pentuim 4 added 2 diff sets of multimedia instructions during it's lifespan are we not going to call it a Pentuim 4. Last time I checked the Pentuim 4 went through the most changes out of any Intel X86 processor in Intel's history and it was still called the Pentuim 4.

AMD Athlon 64 X2 4600+ OC 2.7ghz
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Nvidia 7900GT
SATA II 2x 300gig 7200rpm 16mb cache RAID-0+1
Gigabyte Nforce 4 SLI

cobra, i know all this ... i'm just curious about bigfoot's non-mmx pentiun cpu clocked with 233 MHz which to the best of my knowledge does not exist.

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You guys have WAY too much time on your hands:)

I'm still looking for it. I think its in an old NEC at my friends house... I;ll be over there this weekend and I'll go upstairs in the garage and dig it out.

Ok, I think i can prolly run vista on my 550Mhz 256MB ram PC, considering I ran XP Pro on a Pentium MMX 200Mhz 96MB Ram, fairly smooth for the hardware i had installed. it was way faster than I thought it would be.

I clocked it to a 233Mhz MMX later!