My Computer is quite unacceptable as well (due to integrated graphics)
Its an AMD Sempron 2GHz
2GB 667mhz RAM and Geforce 6100 nforce 405 (biggest botleneck!)
and it runs win7 great. but my pc is 12 years old judjing by performance and 6 years old judjing by when its created (its created in 2005, original OS was WIN XP Pro)
nice pc btw but 512mb ram? isnt it possible to be modded or somthing?
my motherboard can have up to 8gb though. and its only 5 years differrence. strange...
Have DEll Dimension 2400. Bought ATI Rage 128 Pro to replace on-Baord Video, but can't get system to recognize the card. Has no problems recognizing older Diamond 3D 2000. Anyone know how I can get this system to recognize the ATI card. Looks like a few postees here have.
Hey, I have this exact Pc and i'm trying to install Win7 from a bootable flash drive: The bios doesnt support usb boot and also wont let me boot from the internal dvd drive!!!
My brother has pretty much the same system, but when I upgraded him to W7 it would only list a generic VGA adapter and wouldn't let you run a resolution higher than 620x480! I just bought him a ATI Rage 128 Pro Video Card, and his system doesn't recognize it?? Any suggestions or ideas?
@dalamaarthedark These old video cards tend to not work really well with the Win 7 your best bet is try to get a video card around 128mbs of ram at least. I know my system here has a Ati rage 128 pro but its running on just generic drivers. I upgraded it now with an Ati radeon 9200 128mb card.
That's what I figured. I was just trying to be cheap since it's not my pc. I guess I'm just going to order him an EVGA card like I have. Thanks for the response!
@dalamaarthedark I have a system very similar to this. When I run the upgrade disk for Win7, I had also upgraded the RAM to 2Gb, stuck in a ATI Radeon 9200, added a new HDD, etc. And last I upgraded the orig. P4 1.6(ish)GHz to a newer 2.xGHz one. All in all when I did that, it ran pretty decent, but ATI Rage 128 Pro is over 7yrs old. So Windows Vista wouldn't even have support for that.
@dalamaarthedark I have a system very similar to this. When I run the upgrade disk for Win7, I had also upgraded the RAM to 2Gb, stuck in a ATI Radeon 9200, added a new HDD, etc. And last I upgraded the orig. P4 1.6(ish)GHz to a newer 2.xGHz one. All in all when I did that, it ran pretty decent, but ATI Rage 128 Pro is over 7yrs old. So Windows Vista wouldn't even have support for that. Actually on the RAM, my system is quite a few years newer. It's a Dell Optiplex 5xxx Series.
I have a Dell Dimension 2400 with stock hardware except the added 256 mb and I put Windows 7 on it and it was Awesome I absolutely love it. I took it off though as it took to much room and now I have XP and Ubuntu 9.04 on it
Yes for this model. Should of stated i got another dell system similar to this setup but with the same processor speed. Tho it allows me to add in more ram. Il make a video of it soon.
I also got one from garage sale for $10. It had 3gb of DDR Ram, 40GB Hard Drive, and DVD-RW drive. Now I upgraded it to nVidia 6200 256MB, and 500gb hard drive.
Interesting.. (Please you'all tell me what you think..) That Windows 7 runs faster on a mid -level system like mine ( e5200 ,4gb ram ,ati 4890) than X.P ,...BUT on old Machines like that Dell ,X.P runs Faster than Windows 7 ...I Wonder Why ?...
Yea your right. Also the max ram this pc can handle is only 512mbs cant go higher. I do have an Dell 4100 system with an PIII coppermine at 1.1ghz. They both have the same speed comparison just about.
I thought the dell 4300 can handle 1 gig of ram? Thats what it says on almost every site I visit includin memorystock(dot)com. I bought 1 GB of ram off of ebay.
hi yasha did it make a big difference with the 1 gb of ram waiting for mine from ebay its the oldest computer in my house but i like it the best never let me down
Still waiting for mine to come in. I put my PC on ebay since I want to build a nice gaming PC. The nice thing about windows 7 is it was still fast on my dell with 384MB of ram.
Nio prob. Its my last upgrade. I sunk a lot of money into this PC. I sold my custom painted and flashed 360 on ebay so I can get my new PC built. Guy one it yesterday so I am hoping he will pay. he has 1 neg from a seller who said "DO NOT SELL TO THIS BUYER. HE WILL NOT PAY". If not I can always relist it.
It would run smoother with more RAM but let's not forget it's a socket 423 system which are the first P4 system they released with plain 133mhz SDRAM...even a PIII Tualatin @ 1.4ghz is faster than this system.
I wanted to try to put windows 7 on my pentium 3 machine with 1.1ghz processor and 512mbs of ram as well but could not get it to boot from the dvd drive.
Omg i watched this on a rage 128 pro. how meta is that...
Tualetipart 1 month ago
the rage 128 may be a little bit better than the x4500m etc because the rage is dedicated..
RainbowRoan 4 months ago
i got the exact same pc :O
and put in a 512mb grafix card
and 1240mb +- ram (thats the max for this mother board)
power supply got hot so i took out the 2 cd/dvd drives and the diskette station
now its starts in 12 seconds with windows xp and runs games preatty sweet
:P
rolandlub 5 months ago
i have a dell dimension 4550 it has the exact same case as yours
pentium4 2.5ghz
1gb ram
ati rage ultra 128 pro 16mb (i orderd a ati radeon 9550 256mb)
120 gb hard drive
whill this run ok with windows 7?
lukeool 7 months ago
@lukeool it should be enough. it will run good (if you recieve your ati radeon 9550)
Mitko54682DS 7 months ago
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My Computer is quite unacceptable as well (due to integrated graphics)
Its an AMD Sempron 2GHz
2GB 667mhz RAM and Geforce 6100 nforce 405 (biggest botleneck!)
and it runs win7 great. but my pc is 12 years old judjing by performance and 6 years old judjing by when its created (its created in 2005, original OS was WIN XP Pro)
nice pc btw but 512mb ram? isnt it possible to be modded or somthing?
my motherboard can have up to 8gb though. and its only 5 years differrence. strange...
Mitko54682DS 7 months ago
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Mitko54682DS 7 months ago
Have DEll Dimension 2400. Bought ATI Rage 128 Pro to replace on-Baord Video, but can't get system to recognize the card. Has no problems recognizing older Diamond 3D 2000. Anyone know how I can get this system to recognize the ATI card. Looks like a few postees here have.
mant1ss 8 months ago
you got that for $25?
UltimateVenom 8 months ago
cool story bro
GreyBull88 1 year ago
THOSE ARE THE SAME EXACT SPECS AS MY PC!!!
ejvdo 1 year ago
i have the 16 MB ATI Rage 128 Ultra on mine do u know how to update it?
XGNRsX 2 years ago
Hey, I have this exact Pc and i'm trying to install Win7 from a bootable flash drive: The bios doesnt support usb boot and also wont let me boot from the internal dvd drive!!!
Ahhhh doesnt work: help anyone?
Lunaratia 2 years ago
@Lunaratia uhh old pc's don't support that shit. >_>
try burning a "CD" einstine.
xXRenaxChanXx 2 years ago
@Lunaratia err DVD I mean.
xXRenaxChanXx 2 years ago
hey, thanks: still: I tried but..... It wont let me boot of the DVD drive ahhhhhh
(the reason i wanted to install from usb in the first place)- anyway I installed from USB whilst in windows XP and it worked
Thanks for answering :D
Lunaratia 2 years ago
Neat to see a fellow AVG Free user :]
IanTBH 2 years ago
My brother has pretty much the same system, but when I upgraded him to W7 it would only list a generic VGA adapter and wouldn't let you run a resolution higher than 620x480! I just bought him a ATI Rage 128 Pro Video Card, and his system doesn't recognize it?? Any suggestions or ideas?
dalamaarthedark 2 years ago
@dalamaarthedark These old video cards tend to not work really well with the Win 7 your best bet is try to get a video card around 128mbs of ram at least. I know my system here has a Ati rage 128 pro but its running on just generic drivers. I upgraded it now with an Ati radeon 9200 128mb card.
Appl3Byte 2 years ago
That's what I figured. I was just trying to be cheap since it's not my pc. I guess I'm just going to order him an EVGA card like I have. Thanks for the response!
dalamaarthedark 2 years ago
@dalamaarthedark I have a system very similar to this. When I run the upgrade disk for Win7, I had also upgraded the RAM to 2Gb, stuck in a ATI Radeon 9200, added a new HDD, etc. And last I upgraded the orig. P4 1.6(ish)GHz to a newer 2.xGHz one. All in all when I did that, it ran pretty decent, but ATI Rage 128 Pro is over 7yrs old. So Windows Vista wouldn't even have support for that.
TheWindowsChannel 10 months ago
@dalamaarthedark I have a system very similar to this. When I run the upgrade disk for Win7, I had also upgraded the RAM to 2Gb, stuck in a ATI Radeon 9200, added a new HDD, etc. And last I upgraded the orig. P4 1.6(ish)GHz to a newer 2.xGHz one. All in all when I did that, it ran pretty decent, but ATI Rage 128 Pro is over 7yrs old. So Windows Vista wouldn't even have support for that. Actually on the RAM, my system is quite a few years newer. It's a Dell Optiplex 5xxx Series.
TheWindowsChannel 10 months ago
Take all that avg crap off. If you know what your doing you don't really need an ativirus. But I recemend Microsoft security essentials
gmaster45612374 2 years ago
meh my Compaq ( Custom made ) is better, kinda
Intel (R) PENTIUM 2.4GHZ
66GB Hardrive ( Duo)
368mb of SDRAM (FREAKING EXPENSIVE NOW)
windows XP home
AND ATI RAGE 128X PRO (32mb of SDRAM)
p1an0ma5t3r 2 years ago
Hi,
I have a Dell Dimension 2400 with stock hardware except the added 256 mb and I put Windows 7 on it and it was Awesome I absolutely love it. I took it off though as it took to much room and now I have XP and Ubuntu 9.04 on it
russjr08 2 years ago
I just threw that junk away.. bought for $1000 6years ago..
hahahaz07 2 years ago
I upgraded the ram to 1gig and installed an Ati 9200 128mb video card into it. Runs old games fine!
Appl3Byte 2 years ago
I thought 512mb is max?
hahahaz07 2 years ago
Yes for this model. Should of stated i got another dell system similar to this setup but with the same processor speed. Tho it allows me to add in more ram. Il make a video of it soon.
Appl3Byte 2 years ago
More RAM and a good video card runs nice xD
Markcy1989 2 years ago
I also got one from garage sale for $10. It had 3gb of DDR Ram, 40GB Hard Drive, and DVD-RW drive. Now I upgraded it to nVidia 6200 256MB, and 500gb hard drive.
starkist1480 2 years ago
Interesting.. (Please you'all tell me what you think..) That Windows 7 runs faster on a mid -level system like mine ( e5200 ,4gb ram ,ati 4890) than X.P ,...BUT on old Machines like that Dell ,X.P runs Faster than Windows 7 ...I Wonder Why ?...
mrjamesb56 2 years ago
ooops it's a socket 478 system..still almost on par with a PIII Tualatin 14 though :D
Jivemaster2005 2 years ago
Yea your right. Also the max ram this pc can handle is only 512mbs cant go higher. I do have an Dell 4100 system with an PIII coppermine at 1.1ghz. They both have the same speed comparison just about.
Appl3Byte 2 years ago
I thought the dell 4300 can handle 1 gig of ram? Thats what it says on almost every site I visit includin memorystock(dot)com. I bought 1 GB of ram off of ebay.
showmetheinuyasha 2 years ago
hi yasha did it make a big difference with the 1 gb of ram waiting for mine from ebay its the oldest computer in my house but i like it the best never let me down
1916ad 2 years ago
Still waiting for mine to come in. I put my PC on ebay since I want to build a nice gaming PC. The nice thing about windows 7 is it was still fast on my dell with 384MB of ram.
showmetheinuyasha 2 years ago
thanks for the reply yasha we have the same amount of ram lol waiting over two weeks for it now
1916ad 2 years ago
Nio prob. Its my last upgrade. I sunk a lot of money into this PC. I sold my custom painted and flashed 360 on ebay so I can get my new PC built. Guy one it yesterday so I am hoping he will pay. he has 1 neg from a seller who said "DO NOT SELL TO THIS BUYER. HE WILL NOT PAY". If not I can always relist it.
showmetheinuyasha 2 years ago
It would run smoother with more RAM but let's not forget it's a socket 423 system which are the first P4 system they released with plain 133mhz SDRAM...even a PIII Tualatin @ 1.4ghz is faster than this system.
They early P4's were slow as hell
Jivemaster2005 2 years ago
Windows 7 is actually pretty efficient.
I tried it on my Netbook (1,6Ghz Atom) and had no problems.
macintoshgermany 2 years ago
Im thinking about running it on my 1.6celeron m laptop when i upgrade the ram, don't know if it will run great but its worth a shot
macman2256 2 years ago
Not bad for 512mb ram. That runs seven faster than my old 2.6ghz P4 with 512mb ram lol
macman2256 2 years ago
I wanted to try to put windows 7 on my pentium 3 machine with 1.1ghz processor and 512mbs of ram as well but could not get it to boot from the dvd drive.
Appl3Byte 2 years ago
That would be epic if it ran. Im going to try windows 7 via bootcamp on my 24" 2.8ghz Core 2 duo imac when it gets back from repair.
macman2256 2 years ago