Vista Ultimate/Dell dimention 4600

[andy57]

Hi folks neebie here so hope i am posting in right section--------I have a dell dimention 4600 pc to which i added 2gig of memory other than that it is factory standered spec. could i run vista ultimate on this setup. all advice welcome and gratefully accepted

[Krypton]

reccommended specs for vista ultimate are:-

• 1 GHz 32-bit (x86) or 64-bit (x64) processor
• 1 GB of system memory
• 40 GB hard drive with at least 15 GB of available space
• Support for DirectX 9 graphics with:
  • WDDM Driver
  • 128 MB of graphics memory (minimum)
  • Pixel Shader 2.0 in hardware
  • 32 bits per pixel
  
  so you should be fine mate.
• you may need a graphics card tho as integrated graphics are the pits

[andy57]

Thanks m8 will give it a go

[cunny]

i would see about putting more ram in m8 vista is 1 resource hog

[Krypton]

should be fine with 2 gig, although your right mate at the price ram is now, shame not too!

[cunny]

I was only going off personal pref, but to be totally honest xp is the better os out of the 2.

[Krypton]

agreed xp is great. windows 7 looks like it will be a worthy successor tho

[cunny]

My gf was running vista on a pent d that shipped with 1gb ram(please).
I upgraded it to 2 and was fone for about 18 months.
It started running poor after a format and stuff so i then upped it to 4gb of ram and ran well.
The motherboard then died so i got a quad core cpu and new board and ots very very fast.

My point is on the lower spec cpus then you need to max out the ram to speed up vista as its just a big bloated fat pig of an os.