Update : Athlon XP-M 2800+ and 640 Mb SDR ?

[jean019]

Hi,

I have an Athlon XP-M 2800+ (2133 Mhz- 16*133),

on an old Abit KT7a (from 2001)

640 Mb of classic SDR 133Mhz (not DDR !)

An ATI 9550 - 128 Mb

and a 200 Gb hard drive (Seagate)

I use my PC for surfing, making UML models under Rational Rose, watching Digital TV, using Word 2003. I'm not a gamer.

Do you think that a "vLite Vista" release would be quick enough compared to my "XP sp2" ?

Thank you very much

Edited December 15, 2007 by jean019

[nuhi]

Single core cpu and that amount of RAM memory is definitely XP candidate.

XP Lite will fly, if you by some chance missed it try nLite. If you don't need faster than full XP SP2 then try Vista Lite.

[jean019]

In fact I already have a full "XP sp2 pro" installed on my pc, with lots of software, so I really would like to know if a "vLite Vista with same usefull functionalities" (I don't care about games ...) is as quicker as an "XP sp2" on my pc, before deinstalling/reinstalling everything !

Thanks

Edited December 15, 2007 by jean019

[nuhi]

I would say yes, Vista with all removed except Recommended compatibility should be fast as full XP SP2. Now this is just a guess, I haven't tried full XP SP2 in 4 years.

Remove Aero and Desktop Composition since you are on single-core, this Aero DWM service constantly takes cpu time even though it's a GPU thing.

Btw wait new vLite, out on Monday. And get yourself Virtual PC so that you can test it before installing. Hm only problem is to run it you'll need 512MB allocated, that leaves your OS with 100MB, you'll be ok...barely

(check the RAM prices, they are waay too low these days, at least for DDR, haven't checked SDR)

[jean019]

I'm going to wait the new vLite and probably test Vista with it.

Thanks

[jean019]

I finally made a Vista lite dvd with vLite and installed Vista on the PC.

Not too bad when surfing, but I noticed that when I use the video component (playing an mpeg2 file with Winfast mpeg2 or Dscaler 5 codec), the pc was quite slow, slower than XP SP2. I don't know why.

So I decided to reinstall XP SP2 (full), and it's really faster now ...

Edited January 13, 2008 by jean019

[jean019]

I updated a little bit my system :

Athlon XP-M 2800+ (2133 Mhz- 16*133),

on an old Abit KT7a (from 2001)

1 GB of classic SDR 133Mhz (not DDR !)

An ATI 9550 - 128 Mb

on a Seagate Sata 7200.11 500GB plugged on a SIL 3512 sata1 PCI card.

The hard drive is really faster than before :

Under Vista : 95 MB/s for the sata 500GB, compared to 55 MB for the IDE 200 GB

Moreover the added memory boosted the Vista SP1 refresh2, vlited.

It is now really usable, not as fast as XP SP2, but quite OK !

I really think that 1 GB memory is indispensable under Vista.

Edited February 16, 2008 by jean019

[weEvil]

Unless you need Vista, I don't see why you would move away from XP. (Especially with that hardware).

Vista is an OS. Its function is to run applications. Your applications do not need Vista. So why take the performance hit?

Also, if you like how it looks, then I suggest you look at XP->Vista transformation packs.

And for even more performance, nLite or XPlite (not permanent).

Edited February 25, 2008 by brucevangeorge

[aviv00]

maybe http://www.msfn.org/board/Server-2008-Vista-SP1-t113025.html ?