Want to buy Windows 7 -

allthedoyles

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 ?

Capt'n Midnight

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

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.