will vista run smooth on this?

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I got
amd be-2350
960MB ram
64MB vram (sucks 64MB of system ram which is why i have 960MB ram)

I got this computer with vista but never bothered to install since i put mandriva on it the second it i bought it.

Probably not. Vista is notorious for being a memory hog, and if you've got less than a gig of RAM I would expect it to run a bit slow.

I second that. Vista Home Premium needs at least 2GB of memory (plus a fast CPU and GPU), if not more to really run smooth. Newer type memory(DDR, DDR2 and above) is usually dirt cheap online nowadays though.

Home Basic doesn't require as much Ram as Home Premium, but it's still a memory hog.

Microsoft needs to get rid of the bloat in their operating systems, as well as make them modular. That way you can install just the apps you need, and not have to worry about all of the unnecessary crap slowing it down. Will they do this?... I doubt it. They think having more features than the competition makes them better.

Last edited by SilverStar on 18 Aug 2008, 4:13 pm, edited 1 time in total.

Vista won't run smoothly on anything. Use Windows XP instead.

I heard a rumour that Windows 7 which is slated for a 2010 release may be modular.

As for your system, use 2K or XP. Vista requires a bit more RAM than that to run quickly when multitasking, and integrated graphics is far from the ideal for Vista.

If you upgraded the memory, it would run quite nicely. I had a friend who ran Vista on a Core 2 Duo e6320 with 1gb of RAM for a while, and whilst it wasn't the snappiest suit in the closet, it definitely wasn't too bad for the basic stuff. So your machine would probably run it OK, but don't expect it to be lightning fast, or to be able to have twenty gazillion things open at once.

thanks everyone
I wont bother with vista. I will stay with linux on this desktop.

Don't be a Zealot.

Use Windows XP so that you can run better software on your computer.

He's not being a zealot at all, he considered Windows and decided it wasn't for him on that particular machine. Why do you have such a problem with that? If anyone here is a zealot, it's you.

XP requires 64MB RAM
Vista requires at the very least of 512MB RAM - not quite a bit but a huge amount

If you want to install applications then you will need about 256MB RAM for XP and 2GB for Vista

Vista should be OK on that. Not snappy but OK.

It's be slow, but not as bad as when I put Vista on a P3 1Ghrz with 512 of ram

There was also the rumour that Vista would come with a BASH shell as well, though that never happened, so I wouldn't put much faith in the rumour of Windows 7 being modular. --FWIW, Vista is 'modular', but only in the fact that the modules are incorporated into successively more expensive versions of the product.

Bloody hypocrite.

Let him use what he wants, even though I doubt Vista will run well on his.

Considering the fact that your video card shares system memory, I really don't think that a deficiency of 64MB for Vista will hurt it's performance that much. It will probably run about the same as it would on a computer that utilises the full 1024 MB of system memory. --This being said though, I'm still not a fan of Vista.