Windows 7 System Requirements

[ZDPhoenix]

20 GB HDD space, wow, OS's are getting quite large arnt they?

Yeah I noticed that as well. Perhaps it's for an ungodly large page file or something?

 

[Matthew Kane]

Will w7 run on a 2.8ghz P4 skt478, 80 GB hdd and 1.5GB 400 RAM?

 

[rflcptr]

Will w7 run on a 2.8ghz P4 skt478, 80 GB hdd and 1.5GB 400 RAM?

Yes, and nicely. I have it running on an old P4 @ 2.4GHz, 80GB, and 768MB PC3200 RAM.

 

[Matthew Kane]

Nice, I guess I can really start trusting Microsoft now, they promised the exact thing with what they mentioned with Windows 7 for Vista and it was all bulldust. Hopefully I will install it now and see if it goes nice and smooth. The only thing now is that, will it run on a old skt 478 Intel Integrated graphics card?

 

[rflcptr]

It should, you might have to get used to not having Aero if there's no driver up to the task.

 

[Matthew Kane]

Update just tried it...didn't work...my Windows 7 Ultimate is 64Bit...socket 478 Pentiums and Celerons aren't 64Bit compatible... . I guess I need to get 32Bit....any of you pros know how to get 64Bit addressing into 32Bit if possible??

 

[DeathFromBelow]

Update just tried it...didn't work...my Windows 7 Ultimate is 64Bit...socket 478 Pentiums and Celerons aren't 64Bit compatible... . I guess I need to get 32Bit....any of you pros know how to get 64Bit addressing into 32Bit if possible??

Its not possible if your processor doesn't have 64-bit support.

You only "need" 64-bit if you want to use 4 GB or more RAM.

 

[Matthew Kane]

Aww damn...that means I got to download another 3GB of this thing