Will winxp run on a 800mhz pc??

Phil2008 · 17 Nov 2009 at 12:16

The pc has win200 on it at the moment but the guy wants xp, It has only 256mb of mem but should be upgradable to 512mb.

UKDTweak · 17 Nov 2009 at 12:18

It should run fine, but bumping the ram up will help make it a bit smoother.

Edit:
PC with 300 megahertz or higher processor clock speed recommended; 233 MHz minimum required (single or dual processor system);* Intel Pentium/Celeron family, or AMD K6/Athlon/Duron family, or compatible processor recommended
•128 megabytes (MB) of RAM or higher recommended (64 MB minimum supported; may limit performance and some features)
•1.5 gigabytes (GB) of available hard disk space*
•Super VGA (800 x 600) or higher-resolution video adapter and monitor
•CD-ROM or DVD drive
•Keyboard and Microsoft Mouse or compatible pointing device

Guest2 · 17 Nov 2009 at 12:29

Easily, last week we had a server running 600mhz celeron on server 2003 with stupid amount of processes. Granted it did have more memory and a SCSI drive but still. Now out of action due to update server filling the drive to the brim (36gb)

bledd · 17 Nov 2009 at 13:09

Yeah, it'll run ok

Just keep start programs to a minimum

I had a pii-400 with 256 as a web browsing / music box / server

Dark_Angel · 17 Nov 2009 at 14:57

Just to echo the above - yeah it will work.

But it might be worth using the classic theme (IE make it look like 98). A bit more ram would really help it, but it should chug along.

swinnie · 17 Nov 2009 at 16:16

Yeah it'll run fine. Just make sure you're careful about what is installed and what is booted at startup.

One thing I would definitely do, is disable the themes service.

Rroff · 17 Nov 2009 at 16:19

Runs fine on my Eee which has a celeron-M @ 900MHz downclocked to 650MHz for battery use - aslong as you got plenty of RAM - pref. 1gig - it should work ok.

Duke · 17 Nov 2009 at 16:40

Will run ok with 512MB, its mainly down to ram and hd speed (i.e. a really old HD is going to be slow).

Geek. · 17 Nov 2009 at 16:58

i will work but very slowly

Draeger · 17 Nov 2009 at 17:10

I have a wee Dell C400 here that I have been running XP on for years. It's a PIII 866Mhz Katmai core and it ran fine with 256Mb of RAM.

That said, there was a noticeable increase in speed once I chucked another 256Mb in there so yeah - will run fine but grab another stick of RAM m8.

lcg · 17 Nov 2009 at 17:27

It'll work fine. I ran Windows XP on a 350MHz PII with 64MB RAM, and it ran surprisingly well

memyselfandi · 17 Nov 2009 at 17:30

I used to have a Dell Inspiron 3800 with a Piii650 and 512MB of memory and that ran XP quite happily. The only issue that it had was disk space as it only had a 30GB drive.

ShakenNstirred · 17 Nov 2009 at 17:30

xp ran fine on my old 800mhz laptop

HaX · 17 Nov 2009 at 19:41

Believe it or not, Windows XP will run on a P233 (That's an old Socket 7 Pentium 233), with 64 MB RAM.

Although it would have probably been possible to manage on such a system back in 2001 when XP was first released, present day Anti Virus software would drag such a system to a crawl.

Mattus · 17 Nov 2009 at 20:06

Will winxp run on a 800mhz pc??

Should do - that level of hardware was pretty standard when XP was released

malachi · 17 Nov 2009 at 20:55

Ran well on my athlon 550mhz with 256 ram back in the day,so as everyone said,you be fine.

theheyes · 17 Nov 2009 at 21:11

HaX said:
Believe it or not, Windows XP will run on a P233 (That's an old Socket 7 Pentium 233), with 64 MB RAM.

Although it would have probably been possible to manage on such a system back in 2001 when XP was first released, present day Anti Virus software would drag such a system to a crawl.

I'd agree with this somewhat - if the box is going to stay offline and just be used as a word processor or something then I'd avoid AV.