Can I install 64 bit version Windows 10 operating sistem on this computer?

[Lord Jon25]

Hello everyone, I have a very old computer that has the following components:

 

CPU: Intel® Core™2 Duo Processor E6550

RAM: 2 GB DDR 2

Motherboard: Asus P5KR

GPU: Nvidia 8800 GT ( planning to uppgrade this component)

OS (current): Windows Xp (32 bit)

 

So I want to know if it is possible to upgrade operating system to Windows 10 64 bit version? Wikipedia says that my CPU is a 64 bit one but will it actually work?

[porina]

I have Win10 installed on a system with E6400 CPU so it will work. Do you have a SSD in that, or HD? It will be painfully slow if it will still have a HD.

[kelvinhall05]

It'll work.

[ProjectBox153]

It will work. If you're using Windows 10, I'd recommend getting an SSD. A mechanical drive is very slow with 10. If you can, use Windows 8.1 as it's a lot faster on this kind of hardware (I know from experience).

[Lord Jon25]

Thank you all so much,

currently I have an hdd, but I could just buy a cheap ssd as you said to speed things up a little bit. 

 

[Awesomeness2435]

5 hours ago, Lord Jon25 said:

Hello everyone, I have a very old computer that has the following components:

 

CPU: Intel® Core™2 Duo Processor E6550

RAM: 2 GB DDR 2

Motherboard: Asus P5KR

GPU: Nvidia 8800 GT ( planning to uppgrade this component)

OS (current): Windows Xp (32 bit)

 

So I want to know if it is possible to upgrade operating system to Windows 10 64 bit version? Wikipedia says that my CPU is a 64 bit one but will it actually work?

A few things

1. Dual Core will suck with it but is possible. 

2. I'd recommend upgrading ram at some point 

AND

3. You may not be able to get a 64-bit version, and be limited to 32 as your previous system was 32 bit. Although if your processor supports 64 but then definitely try it

4. I do agree with others I do recommend either an SSD or Hard Drive, and maybe use part of your hard drive, or a Flash drive for ReadyBoost

 

[LogicalDrm]

I've had both 64bit Vista and 7 on E8400. I would recommend that you look for used Quad Core upgrade.

[GoodBytes]

Yup, like everyone is saying it will work perfectly fine. That is about the computer that my mother uses.

I would look in getting an SSD and upgrade the system with 3-4GB of RAM to have a better experience if you plan to use or have someone use the computer for a few years. The SSD helps a lot in making the computer more bearable to use (the CPU will be the bottleneck). The extra RAM is needed mostly because more programs are fancier and 64-bit by nature consume more RAM, so 2GB would be OK, but at the limit, I think. Windows 10 will adapt, if you wonder, but expect the possibility of having the OS RAM compression process (new to WIn10) to kick-in.