MINIMUM HARDWARE REQUIREMENTS FOR WINDOWS XP AND VISTA

[winterzozi]

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[Dusty]

Welcome to the CH forums.

Please stop shouting at us - turn off Capslock.

Remember these are the bare-bones minimum requirements and you shouldn't expect good performance from them especially if gaming.  e.g. recommend at least 1gb ram for XP and 2gb for Vista, the more you can afford the better performance you'll get.

Vista        XP

Good luck

[winterzozi]

want to know the minimum requirements only

[Carbon Dudeoxide]

It says on the website Dusty posted.

Windows Vista minimum supported system requirements

   Home Basic / Home Premium / Business / Ultimate   
   

    * 800 MHz processor and 512 MB of system memory
    * 20 GB hard drive with at least 15 GB of available space
    * Support for Super VGA graphics
    * CD-ROM drive

[patio]

This should get Broni all fired up....

[soybean]

Remember these are the bare-bones minimum requirements and you shouldn't expect good performance from them especially if gaming.  e.g. recommend at least 1gb ram for XP and 2gb for Vista, the more you can afford the better performance you'll get.

If not gaming, you can lower those numbers to 512MB and 1GB, especially the 512MB for XP, in my opinion.

[quaxo]

Heck, depending on the games, 512MB on XP is sometimes enough. Won't get the best performance or quality, but they'll run well enough to enjoy. Some less demanding games will run on a Pentium 4 running XP with only 256MB RAM with a 128MB video card (World of Warcraft, RainbowSix 3, and Tron 2.0 for example) on lower settings.

For just internet and such you don't need much. My mates shop here sells a Windows XP, P4 2.8, 256MB RAM, on-board video and sound, and 17" CRT monitor for about $300. Good for budget people.

[Carbon Dudeoxide]

I have a 512MB RAM, 1.7GHz, 128MB Vdeo Card playing Halo PC on high detail. 

Modern games (like within the last few years) are starting to require unbelievable amounts of computer resources *cough*Crysis*cough*.

[Broni]

Stop playing with the poor guy!
IMHO:
XP - 512MB of RAM (good), separate video card with 128MB of RAM;  1GB of RAM (better), 128MB of RAM on-board video will work in this case
Vista - dual-core processor recommended, 2GB of RAM (no exceptions), and 256MB of RAM video card (on-board OK)
Hard drive size....depends...I wouldn't settle for anything less, then 200GB

[Broni]

BTW...I think, displaying any link to some minimums listed by Micro$oft is just harmful.

[wereit]

Absolute minimum recommendations are:

XP - 256MB RAM and 10GB hard drive.  Preferred is 20GB Hard drive.  Operational without waiting for stuff to happen is 512MB ram and 40GB Hard drive, smooth operation = 1GB Ram and 40GB HDD plus.

Vista - 512MB Ram and 40GB Hard drive - Preferred is 1GB RAm and 60GB pluss hdd, Smooth sailing is 1.5GB ram and 60GB hdd more or less

If you are gaming, then apply video card specs as well as listed below.

If you are trying to decide to upgrade from win98 to XP or something... forget it, especially if you wish to have internet access!

Good luck   

[soybean]

If you are trying to decide to upgrade from win98 to XP or something... forget it, especially if you wish to have internet access!

This isn't necessarily true.  It just depends on the hardware specs.  Some machines running Win 98 may have 256MB or more of RAM and have plenty of hard drive space and a processor quite capable of running Win XP.

[Broni]

Vista - 512MB Ram and 40GB Hard drive

Please, don't start with me. This is just pure nonsense.

[Tranc3r]

Vista - 512MB Ram and 40GB Hard drive

Please, don't start with me. This is just pure nonsense.

lols!