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In this article I will sum up for you the minimum configuration of the computer to run Windows XP, Windows 7, Windows 8 / 8.1 or Windows 10. I will give the minimum configuration recommended by Microsoft and advice from my personal practical experience.
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1 / Minimum configuration to run Windows XP
Yes ! According to MS, the minimum computer configuration must be as follows to run Windows XP:
- CPU: 233 Mhz.
- RAM: 64 MB.
- Video card (video card): Super-VGA with minimum resolution of 800 x 600.
- Hard drive: At least 1.5 GB of free space (not in use).
However, with a configuration like this, I guarantee it will run very slowly. But the hardest thing right now is that you can’t find a device with such a low profile ?
Just kidding, the above configuration is given by MS, but according to me the minimum configuration to run Windows XP well must be like this:
- CPU: 500 Mhz.
- RAM: 256 MB.
- Video: 3D support with 8 MB video RAM (VRAM) or more.
- Hard Drive: ATA-66 or above + with approximately 15 GB of free disk space. In addition, your hard drive should also have a buffer memory of 512 K or more.
=> In short, at the present time, you can find such a low-profile computer is also a problem ?
2 / Minimum computer configuration to run Windows 7
You may be looking for: What is Windows 32bit and 64bit? And how is it different?
+ For 32-bit windows 7 platform:
- Processor (CPU): at least 1 GHz.
- RAM: at least 1 GB RAM
- Free memory: Minimum free memory of 16GB
- The screen has a minimum resolution of 800 x 600.
- DirectX 9 WDDM 1.0 or higher support.
+ For 64-bit windows 7 platforms:
- Processor (CPU): at least 1 GHz.
- RAM: 2 GB or more.
- Free memory: At least 20 GB of free hard disk space
- The screen has a minimum resolution of 800 x 600.
- DirectX 9 WDDM 1.0 or higher support.
=> However, in order to run Windows 7 smoothly, the minimum configuration I recommend is as follows, but if your configuration is smaller, I really recommend that you use Windows XP to be smooth.
- Processor (CPU): Greater than 1 GHz
- RAM: 2 GB or more (32-bit platforms) and 4 GB or more for 64-bit Windows platforms.
- Free memory: At least 40 GB of free Windows installed partition.
- DirectX 9 WDDM 1.0 or higher support.
2 / Minimum computer configuration to install Windows 8 / 8.1
+ For windows 8 / 8.1 32-bit platforms:
- Processor (CPU): Minimum speed must reach 1 GHz, with support for PAE, NX and SSE2.
- RAM capacity: Minimum 1 GB RAM
- Minimum memory: 16 GB
- The screen has a minimum resolution of 800 x 600.
- Graphics card: Microsoft DirectX 9 with WDDM driver
+ For windows 8 / 8.1 64-bit:
- Processor (CPU): Minimum speed must reach 1 GHz, with support for PAE, NX and SSE2.
- RAM capacity: Minimum 2 GB
- Minimum memory: 20 GB (64 bit)
- The screen has a minimum resolution of 800 x 600.
- Graphics card: Microsoft DirectX 9 with WDDM driver.
=> The minimum configuration that I recommend you to use is:
- Processor (CPU): 1.5 GHz or higher, + with support of PAE, NX and SSE2
- RAM: 2 GB (for 32-bit platforms) or 4 GB (for 64-bit platforms)
- Hard drive space: Minimum 40 GB free space (Usually when dividing the hard drive, I will leave at least 80GB to install more software and use it for your comfort.)
- Graphics card (VGA): Microsoft DirectX 9 + graphics device with WDDM driver.
3 / Minimum configuration to install Windows 10
According to official information from Microsoft, the minimum configuration to run Windows 10 is equal to the configuration to run Windows 8 and 8.1. This is also easy to understand, MS tries to bundle it up so that users can more conveniently upgrade the operating system. You can refer to here !
I recommend the minimum configuration to run Windows 10 operating system as follows:
- Processor (CPU): 2 GHz or higher, + with support of PAE, NX and SSE2
- RAM: 2 GB (for 32-bit platforms) or 4 GB (for 64-bit platforms)
- Hard drive space: Minimum 50 GB free space.
- Graphics card (VGA): Microsoft DirectX 9 + graphics device with WDDM driver.
In addition, for Windows 10 operating system, you should equip a little more that is:
- Microsoft account for us to connect with computers => helps you download and use applications on the MS Store easily, in addition to also a way to better secure your computer.
- Minimum screen resolution is 1024 x 768.
Epilogue
Yes ! That is the entire minimum configuration of the computer corresponding to the current popular Windows operating system versions that you should know.
Through this article, I believe you have grasped some quite useful information for the job choose the operating system when deciding to reinstall Win for the computer, right ?
Hope this article will be useful to you, wish you success!
Kien Nguyen – techtipsnreview
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