Does Zoom/Google Meet run on old-school Pentium Dual Core + 1 GB RAM?

[TukangUsapEmenq]

Laptop went died all of sudden (which I assumed the PCB power line's f up), still trying to get it fixed (I know it won't be as reliable as before, at least I gave the laptop more usable time to use it). 

 

Got an old PC, Pentium Dual Core 1.8 GHz, 1 GB of RAM. College starts next week, which includes lots of Zoom/Google Meet. Getting another laptop's not an option for now. 

 

It will run, or not? As long as I can attend the courses.

[BondiBlue]

Maybe, but 1GB of RAM is quite a large bottleneck for basically anything. 

[fanman1980]

Yes I used to use a system like this but upgrade to 4 or 8 gb for ram it probobly used ddr2

[StDragon]

You need at least 4GB RAM just to run the OS, an app or two without it having to thrash the disk from paging memory in and out.

[fanman1980]

I would also recommend using windows 7

[StDragon]

1 minute ago, Grand Admiral Thrawn said:

I suppose some lightweight Linux distribution could handle this.

Can try CloudReady, but it requires at least 2GB of RAM.

https://www.neverware.com/freedownload#intro-text

[Somerandomtechyboi]

30 minutes ago, dhannemon13 said:

Laptop went died all of sudden (which I assumed the PCB power line's f up), still trying to get it fixed (I know it won't be as reliable as before, at least I gave the laptop more usable time to use it). 

 

Got an old PC, Pentium Dual Core 1.8 GHz, 1 GB of RAM. College starts next week, which includes lots of Zoom/Google Meet. Getting another laptop's not an option for now. 

 

It will run, or not? As long as I can attend the courses.

Full system specs?

 

1.8ghz suggests a pentium e2160, great overclocker cpu btw, i suggest bsel modding to 266mhz fsb for 2.4ghz, maybe even try bsel to 333mhz but youll prob need to voltmod which is prob gonna be a pain in the ass

 

And what is your mobo model and chipset? Cause if you got a good mobo with a good chipset you can do some pretty decent ocing for better performance, and if you say you are not willing to oc i will laugh at you, 45nm core cpus will handle around 1.6v daily just fine, upto 2v even but thats basically a death zone voltage, 65nm i think handles around 1.7v daily 2.1v death zone, although you will prob not have the cooling to even reach anywhere near these voltages

 

And yes, i do suggest upgrading your ram to 4gb ddr2 or if you have a chipset thats g31 or newer and if you can find 4gb ddr2 ram stick, you can upgrade to 8 or for some mobos with 4 slots even 16gb ddr2, though these 4gb ddr2 rams are usually marketed towards amd which is bs unless you are running a chipset older than g31 such as 945 or 965

[LogicalDrm]

Do you have phone? It wil lwork, better than PC. And you might even be bit better using phone for classes while making notes on PC.

[TukangUsapEmenq]

On 8/25/2021 at 11:06 PM, BondiBlue said:

Maybe, but 1GB of RAM is quite a large bottleneck for basically anything. 

 

On 8/25/2021 at 11:12 PM, StDragon said:

You need at least 4GB RAM just to run the OS, an app or two without it having to thrash the disk from paging memory in and out.

Yeah, hate the fact that RAM needs to be bigger nowadays. 

 

 

On 8/25/2021 at 11:12 PM, Grand Admiral Thrawn said:

I suppose some lightweight Linux distribution could handle this.

Actually got Linux Mint installed there already.

 

On 8/25/2021 at 11:37 PM, Somerandomtechyboi said:

Full system specs?

 

1.8ghz suggests a pentium e2160, great overclocker cpu btw, i suggest bsel modding to 266mhz fsb for 2.4ghz, maybe even try bsel to 333mhz but youll prob need to voltmod which is prob gonna be a pain in the ass

 

And what is your mobo model and chipset? Cause if you got a good mobo with a good chipset you can do some pretty decent ocing for better performance, and if you say you are not willing to oc i will laugh at you, 45nm core cpus will handle around 1.6v daily just fine, upto 2v even but thats basically a death zone voltage, 65nm i think handles around 1.7v daily 2.1v death zone, although you will prob not have the cooling to even reach anywhere near these voltages

 

And yes, i do suggest upgrading your ram to 4gb ddr2 or if you have a chipset thats g31 or newer and if you can find 4gb ddr2 ram stick, you can upgrade to 8 or for some mobos with 4 slots even 16gb ddr2, though these 4gb ddr2 rams are usually marketed towards amd which is bs unless you are running a chipset older than g31 such as 945 or 965

Hell of a detailed answer, and yes, if I remember correctly, it's E2160, no GPU (welp it has 'fake' NVIDIA GPU that I can't even install its driver). Forgot what's the chipset tho.

 

Overclocking would be a problem, as it's got '500W' PSU that I wouldn't trust much for even standard usage with discrete GPU, and... I don't think it would work with OEM Intel cooler. 

 

Noted tho for future, as I think I can have a decent gaming machine (well, at least for Dota) with that OC tip of yours if I can get a e decent GPU and monitor. Thanks! 

 

On 8/26/2021 at 1:20 AM, LogicalDrm said:

Do you have phone? It wil lwork, better than PC. And you might even be bit better using phone for classes while making notes on PC.

As the days pass, realized that way would be actually the most efficient way to do it.

 

Hate the strain on my phone that have to Zoom + hotspot tethering (welp everyone loves my data plan) all the day tho. 

[LogicalDrm]

2 hours ago, dhannemon13 said:

Hate the strain on my phone that have to Zoom + hotspot tethering (welp everyone loves my data plan) all the day tho. 

Getting second device for that would be cheaper than new pc/laptop. Well, almost. Good used laptop is about $300, and good deal gets new for same price.
Used phones and tablets are maybe half of that.

[TukangUsapEmenq]

6 hours ago, LogicalDrm said:

Getting second device for that would be cheaper than new pc/laptop. Well, almost. Good used laptop is about $300, and good deal gets new for same price.
Used phones and tablets are maybe half of that.

Perhaps I can even get it cheaper than $300 if chosen right.

 

Perhaps a secondhand X260 (so I can reuse my RAM and SSDs) would be a choice for later on.