aero with x300 64mb?

[gerryR]

anyone scraping aero with the above grafx chip? Rest of the laptop is 2Ghz
centrino, 2GB RAM.

Also would a 10GB partition be enough to run Vista, only for testing
purposes not for real world usage so wouldn't need much space for progs
etc.?

cheers
gerryR

 

[Puppy Breath]

I don't know what the minimal requirements are. But I have it on a 40 GB
partition, with just a couple Office apps and a few other things. Nothing
major. It's eatin' up over 14 GB with just that. The \Windows folder is
about 6 GB. So 10GB might be cutting it a little close.

Other hardware on this machine: P4 3.0 Ghz HT, 1 GB RAM, 256 MB video
memory. That gets me a performance rating of 2. Vista's speed is
"acceptable" (for a beta) on this machine. Patience is required at times ;-)

 

[Zack Whittaker]

10GB should be OK, but Vista will probably chew up about 6-8GB of it, so
make it about 20 at least - this gives it space to have applications run on
it and stuff.

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[gerryR]

thanks for the replies guys, I'll make it at least 15GB so (laptop so total
capacity is a prob) How do you get to rate your PC or is it something that
comes with the CTP ?

cheers again
gerryR

 

[gerryR]

thanks for the replies guys, I'll make it at least 15GB so (laptop so total
capacity is a prob) How do you get to rate your PC or is it something that
comes with the CTP ?

cheers again
gerryR

 

[Puppy Breath]

Yeah, it's a Vista thing. Open Control Panel and choose System and
Maintenance > Welcome Center > More Details. It's the Windows System
Performance Rating number.


....How do you get to rate your PC or is it something that comes with the
CTP...

 

[Puppy Breath]

Oh wait, I forgot, there's a bigger performance display. In Control Panel
click System and Maintenance, then Performance Rating and Tools.

 

[Kevin John Panzke]

Windows Vista Beta 1 completely Destroyed my ATI Radeon X300, just FYI.

I would personally recommend either a NVIDIA GeForce 6800 or a NVIDIA
GeForce 7800 GTX.

 

[Kevin John Panzke]

P.S. My old X300 even had 128 MB's of VRAM, and it still got Destroyed (by
Windows Vista).

 

[Zack Whittaker]

Destroyed? So Vista held out and sub-machine gunned your video card...?

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[Kazer]

I got a IBM/lenovo T43p with a Fire GL V3200 with 128MB RAM, it s the
professionnal version of your X300 and Vista run smoothly
The graphics card has a rating of 2.8. Your 64MB of RAM can be a little
problem