You cant say Windows 7 without Win. Just saying, I recently got a free upgrade to 7 from Vista via HP, and I absolutely love it. It’s everything I like about vista with increased efficiency, faster file transfers, etc. It’s easier to use, faster, and works great with steam and every other program I’ve tried to use.
Edit: and I’m using the 32 bit version, silly me. I should have gone with x64
The minimum recommended by Microsoft is 2GB, I said 4GB because everything runs much better with it. I have 8.
EDIT: Oh, and I have x64.
CatzEyes, what are your specs?
If they’re good enough go with Windows 7, if your PC is too old go with XP. Although, Win7 does run better on older PCs than Vista.
Windows 7 installed fine on a 1.8ghz pentium 4 with 512 mb of ram and it worked better than the windows XP install that originally came with it.
Was that… was that Sersoft saying something ran better than XP!!!
Oh my, I think I need to sit down, this is a shock to the system!
Reading the steam support area, I am cautious cuz it mentions that sometimes the Windows 7 operating system is too much for the hardware. So I come to you lovely folks to double-check.
RM said this tower is home built so I looked up the motherboard serial number and found this:
N1996 motherboard
However I am hard pressed to find a picture of this that matches exactly what I see. (is that normal?)
Here is the Video Card that RM left in it for me:
https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814133186
Here is the Creative Sound Blaster Card X-Fi Xtreme Gamer SB0730 RM left in for me
I see an amd fan
I see next to the two memory sticks the tag: SocketAM2
I see on the memory stick casings: 64A0TFTHE-HS 0712P58138 PNY Technologies (are those zeros or Alpha o’s tho?)
I see all the way at the bottom of the board, under the last (of 3) pci slots the word: MSI
I see all the way at the bottom of the board, above the last (of 3) pci slots the tag: K9N4 Ultra
I see a white sticker next to the memory sticks: 621 6A20435084
So, what do you guys think? Jump in and do Windows 7?
Microsoft can make a proper os, they just need motivation, with Vista they thought they could get away with anything as long as it’s pretty, but with 7 they really had to put some thought into it and figured out the difference between what’s a nice feature and what’s a fucking waste of time and resources.
I still run XP on all but my main computer and I think it’s a damn fine OS, I was just mad at Microsoft for making vista suck, I was so excited about it I used almost all the leaked Vista builds before it came out.
My thoughts near enough, Sersoft. XP was fine after an update or two, and it’s a shame I had such a bad experience with it; like a lot of early adopters of Vista probably.
@CatzEyes93
You could ask RabidMonkey what the specs are, if he remembers…
But the CPU most likely an Athlon x2, considering the slot.
I’d ask him how much RAM it’s got before jumping in with Windows 7, even though it’s probably not an issue.
Is this your motherboard?
EDIT:
It appears the RAM sticks are 1GB each; how many of them are there?
Looking at your specs, your PC could definitely handle Win7 but if you use Windows XP SP3 than that’s just as good.
fix’d :3
The motherboard you linked to is an Intel one, so it’s probably not the one you have if there’s an AMD processor in it.
I’ve had trouble when XP got released as well. The first thing that comes to mind was the bogus crack that made the PC shutdown randomly with the 60 second count down that nobody knew how to fix. My friends had alot of problems with XP, mainly with games but also with internet access. They all had the habit of asking me to fix all their computer troubles but I wasn’t familiar with XP, because my only computer at the time wasn’t even able to complete the install, infinite BSOD loop during the part when it’s installing drivers. So I was running 98 and 2000. It’s only on my 4th computer that I started using XP. Basically because of my problems, I didn’t want to upgrade my main PC until a game came out that required it, imagine how fast Win 98SE ran on a 2.4Ghz pentium4 with 512mb of ram.
DEVELOPERS! DEVELOPERS! DEVELOPERS! DEVELOPERS! :aah:
That is IT~! ThAT is the motherboard. There are 2 sticks. I think I am gonna go with 7. =) All in favor?
Aye!
The fact that there are two sticks simply means you’re running dual-channel memory, faster transfer rates and less lag. Windows 7 all the way.
Aye. Also, what’s all this about needing lots of memory for Windows 7, the most conservative answer I saw was 3-4gigs (forgive me if I am wrong and missed someone’s post). I run mine on 2gigs splendidly, I even run Crysis just fine (now that its in Dx9mode) with 2 gigs and windows 7. And don’t worry about choosing between 32bit and 64bit. The box comes with both disks. You can make the switch to 64bit when you believe your system is ready to take full advantage of it.
Running x64 with 2gigs right now, although it’s pretty fast Dual Channel PC8500 DDR2, I still wish I had 4 or more because I often come close to running out of memory when gaming.
Another vote for W7.
XP is solid, and it works fine, but W7 is very solid as well. Only issue is networking really, sucks shit at wireless, but for desktops that not so much an issue. SP1 will have updates for that apparently though.
I agree with almost every post in this thread. I’ve been using the Beta versions, 7000, and now 7100, for about a year now. I love them
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I use a wireless network card for mine, and the first night I had my computer, I was dropping/gaining my connection every 10 minutes. But I haven’t had a problem since then. I didn’t mess with my network settings at all, it seems to have just fixed itself, unless it was an update from Windows Updater that fixed it, which isn’t that far out of the question.
You can do this.
In the Taskbar properties dialog, change “Taskbar Buttons: Always combine” to “Taskbar Buttons: Never Combine.” :freeman:
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