Would It be worth installing windows 7 on an old machine?

I have a NVIDIA Geforce 6600 graphics card with 256 MBRam. Runs areo fine.

Play HD movies fine and exeptional at games, By the way I play games like Battle Field 2.

That's the main reason I decided to get the Biostar P4 motherboard. It uses DDR2 memory and has a PCIe x16 (though not a PCIe 2 x16, but cards are backwards compatible) slot. Pick up an older 256 or 512mb PCIe vid card and for $70 plus reusing the older parts I have a setup that will run Win 7 for everyday tasks for a couple more years and not put more stuff in a landfill.

I guess I just have a hard time just junking hardware because of an OS upgrade. The reason I dual boot XP and Win 7 is because my Canon Lide30 scanner and Epson Stylus Photo 875DCS printer aren't supported in Win 7.

Sam

You should be able to use the Vista drivers for your Canon scanner.

I'll try them. I am running 64 bit though.

Sam

There you go, why through in the landfill what will still run, as long as you don't have to spend a fortune on it. I'm dual booting Win 2K Pro & Win 7 on one laptop, XP Pro & Windows 7 on another. I was told that 8 year old laptop belonged in the trash, that it would never boot into Win 7, let alone run it. I did it to prove a point. It smokes Win 2K. As long as it will run, I'll run it. I'm about to inherit another C640, this one with a P3 processor, 20GB hard drive and 512MB RAM. Once I get it, I'll make sure it's healthy, mabye go with 1GB RAM and go for it again.

I am going to put my 2 cents in. I don't think it is worth putting 7 on an older machine. I am currently writing from a Dell D810 that I put 7 on and the performance is really pissing me off. I also borrowed a C640 from a friend and put W7 Ultimate on and it is currently going through the kids' test. ( They will probably start complaining in a couple of days). Yes you can put it on there but between XP, W7 and Server 2003 on the Dell D8XX series, I find Server 2003 a lot faster and more versatile than either. .... I get better response from running Ubuntu on a Gateway 7422gx (Emachine M6811) AMD Athlon 64 with 2 Gig of ram than W7.

Eunix