Would This PC be alright for Windows Vista/Seven in the mean time.

[MrSpartan1717]

Hey all again!!!

Anyways I wanted to post a thread on this topic. And get your guys and girls oppinons. My Mom has an Old Dell Demension 1100. And I have an old ASUS P5VD2 MX SE motherboard here doing nothing. Equipped with a Pentium 4 processor at three gigahertz with a eight hunread megahertz front side bus. Anyways I want her to go Vista and then Seven here eventually. Because Windows XP support is going up soon. Anyways I wanna slowly wanna upgrade her part by part. Basiclly I wanna reuse some of her parts for the motherboard. The case. Her power supply is pretty brand new. I think I got her 350 or 450 which is still reuseble. And also hard drive for now. Which is 80GB seagate 5400 RPM I beleave. The motherboard does have IDE connectors. And as for Video she will have to use Intergrated Video. Anyways will the Processor RAM and Video Slow her down real bad in Vista. All she does is Facebook,email,insant messageing,internet and the odd flash movie. I know the video is a big thing so I'm thinking of giving her my ATI Radeon 3450 HD 512MB. Once I get my 4870. So basiclly should she stay with XP and wait for the parts. Or do you think the upgrade will be fine. And then eventually get her some SATA drives. Basiclly will the ATA drive slow her down alot and same with the procesor and ram. And in the end all I wanna upgrade is the hard drive and Video Card. Or do you think the Petnium 4 is still to slow. and Same with the Ram. I'm thinking on cost here and also the fact she does not need a real fast computer. Im just worried a single core processor and two gigabytes of ram is still not enough for her. Basiclly the rig would be something like this. the ASUS P5VD2 MX SE with the Pentium 4 processor and the 2GB of kingston DDR2 at 533. A cheap ATI card possibly my 3450 or something a bit better. But at least 512 VRAM. And Two Sata Drives. But I wanna do this all in time. I just wanna kinda keep it real cheap for her. Plus I want to get rid of the motherboard to her since it is doing nothing. But if it still seems like a bad rig I'm just hold out. And possibly work something better in a later date. I just feel bad too that she using a really slow computer and does not even know it. So I figured this will do I just do not want to do the upgrade if is not worth. Because I can always use it for Ubuntu or something. So should I upgrade her? Save the motherboard for something like linux and wait and bulid her a better PC. I just figured if she had a better motherboard processor and video card. She would at least be able to Vista on something. Sorry if this is confusing. And thanks for help again and please tell me what you think. I want her to have a decent computer. Just I do not want her to have another computer like dell demension. Slow and Crappy.

[MrSpartan1717]

Motherboard Specifications

ASUS P5VD2 MX SE
Pentium 4 3.00GHZ
2GB DDR2 @ 533

Dell Demension 1100 Specifications

Intel Motherboard Socket 478
Celeron D 2.80GHZ
512 DDR @ 400MHZ
80GB Seagate Hard drive 5400 RPM
96MB Integrated VRAM Intel Extreme Graphics 2
802.11B/G WIFI Card
USB 2.0 PCI Card
350-450 Watt PSU

[MrSpartan1717]

Sorry the hard drive is actually. 7200RPM Ultra ATA/100 Hard Drive. She has the DVD ROM/CD-RW. And of course no 56K modem. LOL

Updated Dell 1100 Specifications:

• Intel® Celeron® D Processor 330 (2.66 GHz, 533 FSB)
• Genuine Windows® XP Home Edition
• 512MB DDR SDRAM at 400MHz
• 80GB Ultra ATA/100 7200RPM Hard Drive
• 3.5 in Floppy Drive
• 48x CD-RW Drive
• 17 inch E176FP Analog Flat Panel
• Dell A215 Speakers add (must add manually)
• Dell USB Enhanced Multimedia Keyboard
• Dell Optical USB Mouse
• 56K PCI Data Fax Modem

[Steve R Jones]

FYI - no support for XP means you can't call Microsoft and get support...and that they won't be making additional improvements...But, you'll be able to updates for fresh installs for years to come just like you can do with Win 98 etc..

[MrSpartan1717]

That what I thought some told me they extended it for 2011. Ya I pretty much just wondering if the ASUS P5VD2 MX SE with 2GB of ram and the Pentium 4 processor and a cheap 512MB graphics card be good for Vista. Granted she will have to use her ATA drive in the mean time. Or should she hold off and wait to bulid a better computer. And Ill keep the motherboard for Ubuntu or something.

[DemonKnight]

I've ran Vista just fine on 2 gigs of ram and a radeon x1600 with a 3.2Ghz socket 775 P4 and am now running win7 with an upgraded videocard. (they ruined media player btw...)

[RamonGTP]

I'm going to say it won't run anywhere near as well as XP does on that system. I'v run vista on many machines and the OS is just very sluggish on single core CPU's. It really shines on dual+ cores. I personally wouldn't run Vista on that machine.