Jan 27, 2004 #1 C Cthulhu Limp Gawd Joined Apr 1, 2003 Messages 413 what do you think about running xp on this box: PIII 500, 320megs of ram and a radeon 7500 64meg card. so in your opinion, do you think xp would run okay, or is it too old?
what do you think about running xp on this box: PIII 500, 320megs of ram and a radeon 7500 64meg card. so in your opinion, do you think xp would run okay, or is it too old?
Jan 27, 2004 #2 B BillLeeLee [H]F Junkie Joined Jul 2, 2003 Messages 13,486 Sure you can run it. Turn down the visual settings and it'll probably run smooth (probably, since I haven't used a comp slower than 1 Ghz with XP).
Sure you can run it. Turn down the visual settings and it'll probably run smooth (probably, since I haven't used a comp slower than 1 Ghz with XP).
Jan 27, 2004 #3 W Wolf31o2 Supreme [H]ardness Joined Nov 7, 2000 Messages 4,612 It'll run just fine, especially with that much RAM. XP is more RAM hungry than CPU intensive.
Jan 27, 2004 #4 D defcom_1 [H]ard|Gawd Joined Sep 12, 2002 Messages 1,793 my laptop (PII 333 w/192MB Ram) runs it fine, I just have almost all the visual stuff turned off...
Jan 27, 2004 #6 S Smiffy Gawd Joined Mar 31, 2003 Messages 656 I'm running XP/Slackware on my P233mmx, 128mb RAM... It's a lot more stable than 9x in my opinion, it's never crashed once on me.
I'm running XP/Slackware on my P233mmx, 128mb RAM... It's a lot more stable than 9x in my opinion, it's never crashed once on me.