Windows 7 on older Pc

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I've a pc in the office that badly needs a clean up but I don't have an operating system.

Can anyone tell me how well Windows 7 will run on an Athlon 64 dual core 4600 2.41GHz processor along with 4GB RAM (max possible)?

Thanks, Kevin
 
Should run smoothly. Have installed windows 7 in machines with a much lower spec.
 
Should be okay. I have installed on some old laptops and seems to handle okay.

Just make sure all the software you have works on win7.
 
Thanks both of you for the reassurance ;)

Software wise it's not an issue as the machine is purely for running MSOffice, a web browser and a few other run-of-the-mill pieces. The problem is that various users added their own anti-virus, anti-spyware, games, trials, etc.

I've removed most of it but am getting a few errors and just want to start afresh.
 
I've put it on two older ones with 2GB and it gave a new lease of life.
It should be able to find any drivers itself but if something e.g. audio does not work you can see the hardware type in device manager.
Odd times there will only be a vista driver available (for an old scanner I think with me) but that worked for W7 so no problem.
Microsoft have a scanner which will advise any problems.
http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows/downloads/upgrade-advisor
 
Thanks guys, seems that drivers will not be an issue according tot he scanner.

Cheers! :thumbs:
 
That spec was basically top spec when Win 7 was released...! It'll be fine, most computers were sold with 2GB or RAM at that time and significantly slower processors. In fact my current desktop is about two years older (with 2GB RAM) than that computer and flew with Win 7 (and Vista for that matter).

Win 7 runs generally fine on computers with 1GB of RAM for future reference.
 
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I've a pc in the office that badly needs a clean up but I don't have an operating system.

Can anyone tell me how well Windows 7 will run on an Athlon 64 dual core 4600 2.41GHz processor along with 4GB RAM (max possible)?

Thanks, Kevin
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I ran it on the 4200 and it was much quicker than XP.
 
neil_g said:
Should be okay performance wise, just make sure you can get all of the correct drivers for win 7
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I've been running Win 7 on a 5.5 year old Dell XPS laptop without any problems since the day Win 7 was released. It's an interesting point about the drivers....

For the last couple of years or so, given that Dell have not released Win 7 drivers for a machine which was sold with MCE installed, I've been leaving the drivers basically as installed by Windows Update rather than fannying around with anything from the Dell (or any other) website. Recently I had a brief play with Ubuntu and I was stunned by the audio performance of my machine, which has a builtin subwoofer. Now, I'm not much of one to pay attention to the audio, because other than the odd YouTube vid it doesn't get used, but I was blown away by the sound coming from the machine. It looks like I've been missing out on the sub woofer joys completely since the basic Windows drivers apparently did not support it, whereas Ubuntu does. So taking the lesson from that I went hunting for old Vista drivers and now I have the full sonic experience the machine was intended to produce all along.

Anyway, the point is that you may not need "Win 7" drivers in order to run Win 7, as older drivers might work perfectly well too.
 
Currently installing win7 onto an older setup. It's an older machine and will just be used as a htpc. Looked into which OS is the least resource hungry and win7 came out on top (even infeont of linux distributions which I found surprising).
 
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