Going from XP to W7 - RAM upgrade question

prowla

JJ_Egan wrote: »

Lightning fast for me is Classic Shell .

Oh, that's quite fast.

NiftyDigits

poppellerant wrote: »

There is an automated tool here which may save a lot of trouble.

It will do nothing of the sort....

I know you are trying to be helpful and all that...

injuredrunner

Thank you everyone, and that is indeed my machine as identified in post #12 :-)

Just got to ponder what to do now!

poppellerant

NiftyDigits wrote: »

It will do nothing of the sort....

I know you are trying to be helpful and all that...

Does the tool have some sort of issue?

poppellerant

injuredrunner wrote: »

Thank you everyone, and that is indeed my machine as identified in post #12 :-)

Just got to ponder what to do now!

If it were me, I'd settle with the 2GB of RAM as Windows 7 doesn't consume much more than Windows XP - a reason why a lot of machines that run Windows XP are upgraded to Windows 7.

If you're looking for a performance boost, I would definitely consider an SSD drive as your motherboard appears to have two SATA ports. The SSD drive can be easily transferred if you get a new computer, so it would be a very sound investment

SSD drives have no moving parts, making them so much faster. Once you use one, you'll wonder how you ever managed without one. :eek::D

prowla

BTW, I've just put Windows 7 onto a HP D610 laptop, which has a Pentium M 1.6 GHz CPU and 1.5 GB RAM.

I'm intending to use it to run a specific program.

A couple of its drivers had to be installed in XP SP2 compatibility mode, but it seems happy enough.

I could have just gone with XP, but I decided that I may as well go with 7, as I had a spare licence anyway.

prowla

poppellerant wrote: »

If it were me, I'd settle with the 2GB of RAM as Windows 7 doesn't consume much more than Windows XP - a reason why a lot of machines that run Windows XP are upgraded to Windows 7.

If you're looking for a performance boost, I would definitely consider an SSD drive as your motherboard appears to have two SATA ports. The SSD drive can be easily transferred if you get a new computer, so it would be a very sound investment

SSD drives have no moving parts, making them so much faster. Once you use one, you'll wonder how you ever managed without one. :eek::D

I use an SSD drive in a computer, however, putting one in the OP's machine would probably cost more than the machine itself.

(If you do consider it, it's worth researching then a bit; I had an OCZ one fail on me inside a couple of weeks, so I got a refund and bought a Crucial one.)

poppellerant

£68.99 on Ebuyer buys a Samsung 120GB SSD 840 EVO - Samsung are a very reputable and reliable SSD brand. If you look on Amazon, the same drive can be bought for £61.46 here - a very reasonable amount of money for a transferrable upgrade.