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Oldest PC you have with Windows 7 on it!

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Just wondering what the oldest system you have windows 7 on is!

Ive got an old HP Brio which I upgraded the ram to 512mb and it just about runs...

700mhz P3 (had to buy a PCI (not express) graphics card for it 8400GS) 

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by the way I dont actually ever use it... Well it is occasionally a web server...

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pentium 4 laptop, with 3GB of ram (!!!!) and a slooooow 320GB drive was running it, then i changed to W8.1

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With windows 7 it's a core 2 duo, can't remember the exact serial though.

Don't ask to ask, just ask... please 🤨

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An Inspiron something laptop. Its really old

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both my p4 and athlon 4000+ retro rigs in my sig they're ok for web browsing but yeah, who does just that.

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My grandmother's old laptop from 06 personally upgraded le ram on it to 1GB but there was no helping it when it died lastweek...

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My old PC had windows 7 (now 8.1), before that PC I was using XP

i7 930

gtx 295

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First off, the specs. Intel 0C7018 - Intel Pentium 4 HT @ 2.4GHz SL6WF - Intel Extreme Graphics 2 (64MB allocated) - Stock beefy Dell blower - Maxtor DiamondMax Plus 10 6L160P0 160GB - 1GB DDR 400MHz CL4 - Dell Optiplex 170L Desktop - Dell NPS-210AB - Windows 7 Professional SP1 32-bit -  Built-in speaker

 

Now for the pic.

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Right now it's folding, getting about 302PPD. Yeah... Better than my grandma's computer I think.

 

EDIT: Have to use the default Windows 7 drivers since the onboard graphics don't have drivers for Windows 7. xD

 

EDIT2: Down to 150-200 now. :(

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I managed to trick Windows 7 into working on a Dell Dimension 2400. It wasn't easy, but I got the XP drivers to install in compatability mode and it works perfectly.

As a little side note, I'm sure these are the most common PC ever, I see them everywhere (still).

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My moms computer is from around 2005 and it has Windows 7.

 

I couldn't tell you how many times I had to remove viruses and reinstall windows because of her willingness to be prone to viruses found online.

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My moms computer is from around 2005 and it has Windows 7.

 

I couldn't tell you how many times I had to remove viruses and reinstall windows because of her willingness to be prone to viruses found online.

Screensavers? My grandma gets a ton of crap from them.

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The laptop I'm using right now, It's only about 3 years old, but look at the specs are just not good for me since I got into PC gaming 2 years ago. It has 4 gigs of RAM, a 300 GB hard drive, and a Pentium B950 @2.1GHz with 'Intel HD Graphics Family' integrated graphics.

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I always see acient machines running W7 on craigslist.... the worst thing personally that I used that had W7 was a HP Mini Netbook.... god that thing was slow with Windows 7 Starter.

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An MSI Wind U100. That thing is so horrible slow. 1,6ghz, 1Gb DDR2 ram. Sits on the shelter for no real purpose  :ph34r:

 

http://www.umpcportal.com/products/MSI/Wind/U100

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Pentium III (coppermine 1GHz, 256 KB), 384 MB (SDR PC133) and onboard GPU (intel (xx)815?, 32 MB shared)... bottlenecked by an old 15 GB HDD

I only remember that I only ran Windows experience index and it rated the CPU with 1.4...

Evidently ive got to many old pc's...

(i found a Pentium 2 chip in the attic and im planning on doing a build with it for a laugh! - ill upload photos once ive done! ) 

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I'm boring and only have it on a Core 2 Duo based laptop from 2008. It runs better then my celeron machine from 2010/11.

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My old machine (dead, RIP) had a E5300 and an Intel GMA 3100 as an integrated GPU before I upgraded it to a Q9500.

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I'm boring and only have it on a Core 2 Duo based laptop from 2008. It runs better then my celeron machine from 2010/11.

Not suprised really! Core 2 Duo isnt actually that bad! Well depends what your doing if your just doing a bit of web browsing its not that bad! 

And all the Valve games are fine with it!

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Not suprised really! Core 2 Duo isnt actually that bad! Well depends what your doing if your just doing a bit of web browsing its not that bad! 

And all the Valve games are fine with it!

True. I use it as you said for browsing the web and one note at school. It's brilliant other then the battery life. As for valve games, I haven't tried any. I may have to plop Portal 2 on it and try it.

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some laptop from 2010. I think it had the atom processor. 

atom processor... more likely to be a netbook then??? 

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My moms computer is from around 2005 and it has Windows 7.

 

I couldn't tell you how many times I had to remove viruses and reinstall windows because of her willingness to be prone to viruses found online.

thats impossible win 7 came out in 2009 

 
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Well technically my oldest one is my rig in my signature because I built it 2 years ago and everything else was bought after that... So yeah.

I get 60 frames at 1080p on a dual core APU. Ask me how.

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thats impossible win 7 came out in 2009 

Dependent on whether or not you installed windows 7 after 2009!

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