ram

[tongtong]

ummm...i dont know if this is the right section....butttt ill ask anyway. so, i have 128mb of ram on this computer, which version of windows would be recommended?
i wont b upgrading anytime soon, as this is an old system...that my mom uses

[erosion]

With only 128 I wouldn't recomend WinXP unless you get more ram, When I first got WinXP I only had 128 ram and everything lagged badly, So I got another stick of 128 =/

[ou_phidelt]

I would suggest going with 98SE.

[Robbie]

Originally posted by ou_phidelt
I would suggest going with 98SE.

I as well. With 128, 98SE should run just fine.
Rob

[ThePerfectCore]

Pish posh. I ran XP on a P200 with 64MB of RAM. Turn down all the gooky interface effects, and it was fine.

98SE is probably cheaper now, though.

[dead_man311]

id say 98se to. i wont try XP unless you got 256mb, 512mb works better

[mdcomp]

Originally posted by ThePerfectCore
Pish posh. I ran XP on a P200 with 64MB of RAM. Turn down all the gooky interface effects, and it was fine.

98SE is probably cheaper now, though.

Agreed. I had it going on a very old system as well and it performed better than 98, but that might have been because the 98 installation was really old and crowded with installed programs and other things, it does slow down over time. Anyways, the best thing to do is go with 98 because it is cheaper, its not like xp will give you any gain for it to be worth the extra $$$. Hope this helps.

By the way, this is in the right place because it is related to Microsoft Windows. Thanks for asking.

Matt

[Gnufsh]

I'd say, go with 2kpro. It runs fine on 128m RAM and is a much better OS than 98se.

[SewerBeing]

if 2000pro runs fine on that amount of ram I would go with it, but the safer bet is 98SE

[Gnufsh]

In my experience, Windows 2000 pro runs fine in 128m of ram.

edit: Has anyone else tried it on that amount of ram?

[dead_man311]

i had 2000 pro with 256mb but that was on a 200Mhz system and it was slow

whats the Mhz's on this system tongtong

[tongtong]

dang..256mb on a 200MHz
haha i have 800MHz '_'

[dead_man311]

that was a long time ago, only stick my friend had at the time.

you should have no problem runing 98se on there or even 2000 on there, id probly pic 98 for it. probly find it for a decent price

[TazExtreme3]

I had XP on my pentium 150 MHz, 80 MB ram laptop and it ran fine with the mobile install :)

[tongtong]

mm...wouldn't too less ram affect the speed and visual effects?

[TazExtreme3]

yes but that was the limit for my laptop(music & videos didn't play very well with XP), I stipped XP down to the bare minimum to get it to run fast, Lots of tweaks, I also ran 2k pro and that also ran very well on that machine.