Too old and slow for XP?

[Pudah]

Will this old clunker PC be too unbearably slow with Windows XP Pro?

Hardware Information
--------------------
CPU                  : Intel Pentium  III Processor 600 MHz
Bus Speed            : 100 MHz
Motherboard          : Intel SE440BX-3
System               : Dell XPST600
BIOS                 : 4S4EB2X0.10A.0026.P08 11/05/1999
Memory               : 384 MB
Sound                : TBS Montego II Playback
Video                : RADEON 8500 SERIES

[jm1647]

Some minimum requirements

http://www.buildyourown.org.uk/pc-installing/windows-xp/

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/pro/upgrading/sysreqs.mspx

http://www.theeldergeek.com/xp_upgrade_paths.htm

[anonymez]

Will this old clunker PC be too unbearably slow with Windows XP Pro?

Hardware Information
--------------------
CPU                  : Intel Pentium  III Processor 600 MHz
Bus Speed            : 100 MHz
Motherboard          : Intel SE440BX-3
System               : Dell XPST600
BIOS                 : 4S4EB2X0.10A.0026.P08 11/05/1999
Memory               : 384 MB
Sound                : TBS Montego II Playback
Video                : RADEON 8500 SERIES

it'll run i guess, just not very well-- imho stick with win98 SE

[Chewy]

I'd pull the video card and put it in something faster

[Dan]

I installed XP for a friend over 3 years ago on their rather old PIII 500 mhz, 256 RAM with integrated video and it has been quite stable for internet and small programs.

You can get a decent computer so cheap now, I would think about an upgrade if it's in your budget.

[Chewy]

I had my daughters amd K6-III 450 maxed out with win 98, she was ripping
mp3's at 25x with musicmatch and a good cd burner, when we upgraded her to Win xp and I did a partial power user setup, her rip speed dropped to
8x-10x, I took quite a while to troubleshoot, XP takes at least 300Mghz
just to run(footprint) leaving little for other programs. 98's footprint is probably 100Mghz with poweruser setup.

[LT. Columbo]

an associate of mine says he has an old piece of crap pentium II with 128MB RAM with xp home on it. seems to work for him.

[Chewy]

Is his name Job?

[Zero G]

My old PIII 733 runs well with W2K Pro. Better than the 98 runs on the other side of it.

[Chewy]

I like W2k in that 500-1000Mghz range, with at least 256 megs of ram,
but you'd better update it behind a good nat router before putting it on
the internet. W2k runs decent with 8megs of video, Wxp doesn't.

[Zero G]

I'm behind 2 routers and a software firewall.

[Pudah]

Thanks for the replies everybody!

I'd pull the video card and put it in something faster

Why does XP require a faster video card? Is that ugly Luna (or whatever its called) visual style so slow that it needs a fancy schmancy video card? I'd be running with the Classic style enabled.

[Chewy]

No the vid card is fine for XP, but too good for that cpu.

[jm1647]

My old PIII 733 runs well with W2K Pro. Better than the 98 runs on the other side of it.

Mine too, only a cheapo 8MB Video card

[nwg]

I used to have my old PIII 500 running Win XP. It also only has 256MB RAM and onboard graphics.