My Setup OK for Vista?

[SC]

Hi,

Currently I have a almost 3 year old PC (XP Home) and was wondering if
anyone here is having decent performace of Vista Home Premium with specs
like mine.

Pentium 4 at 3.0 GHz
1.0 GB Ram
GeForce 5700FX Card with 128 MB of VRAM

I've run the Vista Upgrade Advisor and it says Home Basic and no hardware or
software conflicts. I'd be willing to purchase a bit more RAM and a
slightly updated graphics card, but I'm not going to put alot of money in
it, especially if I can get decent performance from what I have now.

Thanks in advance for any advice.

Steve

 

[Rick Rogers]

Hi,

Those spec's are sufficient, and Nvidia does list that card as being
supported. The problem has been the video adapters from them, they haven't
proven to be fully ready.

--
Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP

Windows help - www.rickrogers.org

 

[Steve Thackery]

Go the Microsoft website and download the Vista compatibility checker.

Thack

 

[Beck]

Hi,

Currently I have a almost 3 year old PC (XP Home) and was wondering if
anyone here is having decent performace of Vista Home Premium with specs
like mine.

Pentium 4 at 3.0 GHz
1.0 GB Ram
GeForce 5700FX Card with 128 MB of VRAM

I've run the Vista Upgrade Advisor and it says Home Basic and no hardware
or software conflicts. I'd be willing to purchase a bit more RAM and a
slightly updated graphics card, but I'm not going to put alot of money in
it, especially if I can get decent performance from what I have now.

Home Basic is stripped of features. You would be better off getting the
Home Premium. Your specs look fine for Home premium although you may or may
not get aero effects with that graphics card.
The upgrade advisor is sometimes wrong about which versions would work.
I have a 1.6 celeron M processor and 1Gb ram and run any version with no
problems - although my bad graphics does not let me run aero or the dvd and
movie maker.

 

[SC]

Ok, Thanks

Hi,

Those spec's are sufficient, and Nvidia does list that card as being
supported. The problem has been the video adapters from them, they haven't
proven to be fully ready.

--
Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP

Windows help - www.rickrogers.org

 

[SC]

Ok, Thanks.

Home Basic is stripped of features. You would be better off getting the
Home Premium. Your specs look fine for Home premium although you may or
may not get aero effects with that graphics card.
The upgrade advisor is sometimes wrong about which versions would work.
I have a 1.6 celeron M processor and 1Gb ram and run any version with no
problems - although my bad graphics does not let me run aero or the dvd
and movie maker.

 

[Tony]

SC you will get glass using that video card, using these drivers
http://www.nvidia.com/object/winvista_x86_96.85.html
Nvidia has dropped support in later releases of the driver, but these ones
will still work. at least, you can check it out and vista, before you get a
new card, if you deem that necessary.

 

[BSchnur]

Pentium 4 at 3.0 GHz

OK -- that will work for Vista 32

1.0 GB Ram

Will work, but go to 2G if you can.

GeForce 5700FX Card with 128 MB of VRAM

Will work, but consider bumping up say to an ATI 9600 with 256M or
nVidia 6200/6600.

 

[SC]

Thanks Barry

OK -- that will work for Vista 32


Will work, but go to 2G if you can.


Will work, but consider bumping up say to an ATI 9600 with 256M or
nVidia 6200/6600.

 

[BSchnur]

No problem -- note, with 1G Vista won't be badly sluggish -- except for
systems which have video cards with shared memory.