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Want to buy Windows 7 -

  • 30-11-2011 12:50am
    #1
    allthedoyles
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,893 ✭✭✭


    This desktop PC is Pentium 4 - 2.80ghz with 3gigs RAM with XP installed -

    Is it possible to buy Windows 7 and install on this ?


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  • #2
    Capt'n Midnight
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    yes.

    would you be better off selling the machine and putting the proceeds and the cost of a windows 7 license towards a newer machine
    yes


    You can pick up a 3GB laptop for €300 these days with a dual core p6100. Compared to it a P4 is an old power hungry chip. Also the RAM will be faster, and the Hard Drive will be new.

    I would open the case and check for swelling capacitors on the motherboard of the P4 before investing in a license that will die if the mother board dies.
    A Pentium 4 3.0 GHz is a single core processor that benchmarks at 491

    The Intel Pentium P6100 2 GHz is a dual core processor that benchmarks at 1576

    I.e. The P6100 has roughly 3x the compute power of that older P4

    http://www.cpubenchmark.net/cpu_lookup.php?cpu=Intel+Pentium+P6100+%40+2.00GHz


  • #3
    DMax
    Closed Accounts Posts: 58 ✭✭DMax


    allthedoyles wrote: »
    This desktop PC is Pentium 4 - 2.80ghz with 3gigs RAM with XP installed -

    Is it possible to buy Windows 7 and install on this ?


    This is a link to download the free Windows 7 Upgrade Advisor tool.


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