Win 7 RC- Impressions on a crappy PC

**Cybs** · 07-11-09, 12:55 AM

Specs:

ABit KN8 Ultra (Socket 939)
AMD Athlon X2 3800+
BFG nVidia 7300
512Mb Patriot DDR400
WD 320Gb Caviar SE 7200 RPM 8Mb buffer

All I can say so far is... WOW! Until I turned on aero it ran pretty smooth! Once I turned on aero... not so smooth.

I haven't tried any gaming yet but I have a feeling based on it having such a small amount of RAM, it won't be a good experience but I'll keep you guys updated.

I'm guessing Microsoft actually accomplished what they were trying to do and make it a viable OS for whatever you have! I'm tempted to take out the 3800 X2 and install a 3700 single core and see what the difference is but I have a feeling it'll run better since there is more cache on the 3700 then the 3800 X2. The again, Win 7 is suppose to optimize multiple cores better.

**yayupp** · 07-11-09, 03:27 AM

My specs are almost identical to yours.

Abit KN8 SLi
AMD Athlon X2 3800+
XFX nVidia 7600GT
4Gb G Skill DDR 400

(just more ram)

The beta ran smooth for me. So, I'm betting if you throw some more RAM in there, it will run much better.

**Gumby** · 07-11-09, 05:53 AM

I am running it on a Opteron 140 Socket 939 with 2 GB of RAM and a GTS 8800 and it runs butter smooth with all the visual features enabled.
It is very nice for gaming too.

**BrokenApe** · 07-13-09, 01:09 AM

ram is cheap enough nowadays... you should up it to 2x 1g sticks ... be a good reasonable upgrade to extend that system's life, also as said let the visual goodies work