Just wondering if my computer can handle Vista 32Bit or stick to 'ol XP (Of which im sick of).

 

Running 2 HDD's both 40GB, One for OS the other for Data storage + 160GB Portable.

Radeon 9200 Graphics Card

Pentium 4, 2.4GHz Processor

768Mb RAM (Yes thats an odd number because for some reason my motherboard only supports SD/DDR1)

 

The only issue I have is the RAM factor since finding DDR1/SD is a freaking nightmare and for SOME REASON the designer of this made it 2000$ (8 years ago) when the RAM was already going outdated then.

Here

 

Home Basic

 

1 GHz 32-bit (x86) or 64-bit (x64) processor

 

512 MB of system memory

 

20 GB hard drive with at least 15 GB of available space

 

Support for DirectX 9 graphics and 32 MB of graphics memory

 

DVD-ROM drive

 

Audio Output

 

 

Internet access

 

Home Premium / Business / Ultimate

 

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

[bleep].

 

Guess I'll need to track down 512Mb of RAM, if I can. costs a fortune for SD for some stupid reason.

and a bigger HDD, but that isnt much.

Personally I wouldn't run Vista with under 2GB of RAM.

Why not just get windows 7?

Why not get a new motherboard? SD/DDR1 RAM is going to be really expensive, it might be cheaper in the long run.

Personally I wouldn't run Vista with under 2GB of RAM.

Agreed. I don't think you'll be happy with the outcome, even if you do upgrade the RAM.

Main problem is I dont have my own computer (Which is just sad at 19) so im forced to use a family one that slowly keeps dieing until it implodes into a vortex of doom and cupcakes.

Main problem is I dont have my own computer (Which is just sad at 19) so im forced to use a family one that slowly keeps dieing until it implodes into a vortex of doom and cupcakes.

Neither do I, but surely there's nothing wrong with upgrading the family computer? I'm sure they'd appreciate it as well.

Plus you can get your parents to buy it, or pay for part of it.

Whatever you do don't go to Vista. Windows 7 actually runs better on lower end/older hardware than Vista does, and its better. I say get it up to 2GB of RAM and then look into upgrading the OS. I have personally had the Beta and RTM versions of Windows 7 running quite nicely on a similar machine, in both age and components, so I'm confident that it should work for you as well.