Intel Penitum 4 CPU 1.80 GHz
NVIDIA GeForce 6800 GT
1022MB RAM
Upgrade that processor, Pick up a cheap Pentium 4 Northwood off ebay, The Early Pentium 4's were never good performers, Especially the willamates
Infact clock for clock the Pentium 3 Tualatin out performed the Pentium 4, And so did the Early thunderbirds and palominos'.
Currently I am running Vista on a:
Pentium M 2.0Ghz (Vista Classes it as a 3.0ghz processor).
Mobility Radeon 9700pro 64Mb
1024Mb of DDR Ram.
And for me it runs perfectly, Keep running your games the FPS seems to get better over time, as Vista remembers your favorite programs and caches them for better performance.
Ideally you only need 512Mb of ram, But be sure to get a flash disk to use as a ready boost drive.
A good balance is 1gb which you and I have.
2Gb is optimal.
Basically my conclusion of memory requirements is:
If you needed 512Mb with XP you WILL need 1gb with Vista.
1Gb with XP you will need 1.5gb or 2gb with Vista.
Personally I didn't notice a performance decrease. And I noticed Windows Vista became "Snappier" and more responsive with a ready boost drive.
Keep an eye out for updated drivers, Infact try out the Omega drivers or NGHO Nvidia drivers. Overclock a little and you should be set.
Also if your processor is a northwood it may be your lucky day! the 1.8Ghz Northy's were great overclockers
http://forum.esforces.com/showthread.php?t=66901
ndeed. unless you feel like spending over $1000 on new parts just for vista.
Vista -needs- 4GB of ram to run smoothly.
Should I comment on that? It seriously seems like a spur of the moment post. Vista doesn't need 4Gb of ram. If you run Vista Ultimate 32bit edition you should only need 1-2gb at the most. And considering if you have 4gb of ram installed it only reads it as 3.5gb (Only if you have the 32bit version) kinda makes the 4gb point moot. (I think that was with XP not sure if it happens in vista).
Vista is supposed to use a large chunk of Ram, Because it caches everything!
And besides, As history has shown every NEW OS release required higher system requirements, Otherwise we may as well be using our 486's running Vista.
I have the set-up a "test box" for Vista.
Celeron 850 @ 1ghz.
512Mb of ram at timings of 2-2-2 (SDRAM)
And a Geforce FX 5700LE
I can run Aero fine, No stutters its fine. It takes a little longer for things to load, But whats holding it back is the Ram, I can still Play UT2003/UT2004/FarCry/StarCraft/ESF/Quake3/Serious Sam/Diablo2/Dungeon Siege Which is the goal of the system as Its used as file storage and as a basic gaming computer for a friend and do network gaming. I could theoretically install 1gb of ram into the system, But it wont take my 256Mb sticks. (4 banks) so Instead I have 4 128 sticks.
