system requirements

Jurgen · Post by **Jurgen** » Mon Sep 29, 2003 2:13 pm

I have a Pentium II 233 Mhz with 96 MB RAM.

Would this system do for win2000 pro ?

thanks for the tips

LarsG · Post by **LarsG** » Mon Sep 29, 2003 2:18 pm

Probably a bit too low-spec...
You could try, of course, but I think it would be very slow..

-Lars

sec · Post by **sec** » Mon Sep 29, 2003 2:47 pm

before days, i have P6 155mhz, to setup request 200mhz (one overclock) in setup request 220mhz (two overclock) and bump

,but but now i have
p4 2ghz

Karbon · Post by **Karbon** » Mon Sep 29, 2003 3:49 pm

Doesn't w2k require 128 megs of RAM?

LarsG · Post by **LarsG** » Mon Sep 29, 2003 5:16 pm

Don't know Karbon, but it might do..

griz · Post by **griz** » Mon Sep 29, 2003 6:06 pm

Yes it should work. I've had W2K running on several 200MHZ CPUs, even with only 64MB of RAM. Of course the more RAM the better. 128MB is a good starting point IMO, but I haven't tried 96MB. With only 64MB of RAM, the computer relies too much on the hard drive, and things seriously slow down. If you tried to use a resource hungry application like Photoshop ... no good. If your demands are light you may be able to get away with only 96MB.

Post by **freak** » Mon Sep 29, 2003 6:19 pm

Well, my Win2k system has a memory usage of about 115 MB, with no
no application running except for background processes (of which i have a bit
more than the standart win2k installation i must say).

When i am working a lot with the computer (lots of apps open), it can
climb up to 500MB sometimes.

So I'd say, it will work, but expect a lot of slowdown, due to caching
on the harddrive.

Timo

Num3 · Post by **Num3** » Tue Sep 30, 2003 7:14 pm

Once upon a time i booted a hard disk that had win2k in a 486 with 56mb, and it worked !!!

Slow boot +/- 2 minutes, but 2k worked just fine after boot, no delays, no glicthes !!!

Don't expect any performance, but apart from boot delay, it runned has smooth has win 98 !

blueznl · Post by **blueznl** » Thu Oct 02, 2003 3:12 pm

> have a Pentium II 233 Mhz with 96 MB RAM

yes, it will run, but add some ram and it will be acceptable

from practical experience:

win95 32mb p1
win98 64 p1
winNT 64 p1
win2k 128 p2
winxp 196mb p3

if you have an older hdd (such as the 8 or 10 gig hdd's in the older compaq deskpro machines) you'd better replace those as well, of course set your swap files to a fixed size

but ram is everything... add enough ram and most stuff is acceptable

note: nt and 2k gave mixed results on different but similar machines; xp was mostly a ram issue, after 196 it was acceptable

Jurgen · Post by **Jurgen** » Thu Oct 02, 2003 4:45 pm

I'm going to upgrade my pc then.
Maybe buy another computer in a couple of months.

blueznl · Post by **blueznl** » Thu Oct 02, 2003 6:01 pm

put in as much ram as you can afford, and a new harddisk, and although (especially at boot time) your machine won't be the fastest at least it will work ok

if you're trying winxp, you might want to manually switch off any services you don't need to speed things up

it's also always a good idea to switch off any graphical enhancements (effects, font smoothing, etc.) under whatever os if your machine is not that spiffy

but add ram, ram, ram

go for at least 256 as ram has become very cheap that's quite doable

Num3 · Post by **Num3** » Thu Oct 02, 2003 8:11 pm

sec wrote:before days, i have P6 155mhz, to setup request 200mhz (one overclock) in setup request 220mhz (two overclock) and bump ,but but now i have
p4 2ghz

Why the hell did you swap the P6 for a P4 ???? ehehehehe

sec · Post by **sec** » Fri Oct 03, 2003 3:53 am

P6=P6 family processors include: Pentium Pro, II, III
p4 = Pentium 4