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Can an intel Pentium III Processor with 640 MB of Ram run XP?

If I have a Computer with an Intel Pentium III Processor with 497 MHz, and 640 GB of RAM...Is it enough to run XP?

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  1. The memory is adequate but the processor does seem a little underpowered. I think a 1Ghz processor would be about the lowest acceptable.
  2. I'm assuimg when you mean 640 GB is the hard drive. How much RAM (memory) do you have?
  3. Consulted the tech boyfriend He said can run XP in P2, on your P3 you could do it but you need a DVD drive preferably and it will take hours. But you could do it. Be patient and have lots of brews he says rather you than him LOL De
  4. Yes, XP will run that computer. I've installed XP on 333mhz computers with 128mb of RAM and they work. Are they fast - NO, but they run.
  5. Short answer = Yes, but necessary details follow. First, You mean You have 640 MEGS of RAM, not Gigs. I personally know the minimums for XP are 128Megs of RAM, a 4 gig hard drive, and a CPU at or above 233Mhz - even a Pentium original. The actual XP only takes up about 800 megs of hard drive by itself. A Pentium III will have no trouble running a minimal version of XP either Home or professional as long as the latest updates are applied to it (SP3). I have used it on a laptop running at 350Mhz with a P2 and 196Megs of RAM smoothly (Internet and videos included) after a bit of tweaking. The necessary things to remember are that the hard drive can be formatted as NTFS, but a P3 motherboard will probably have some capacity limitations on it's IDE controller. If you have a new hard drive, create the first partition at just enough to install a couple programs / games onto and the Windows itself. usually anything up to about 40Gigs will be fine, but if it's a REALLY old motherboard, stick with a maximum of 20 Gigs for the primary C drive, and anything extended as a D: or higher letter drive will be "handled" by XP. Also keep in mind that if you're using a Celeron instead of a P3, You'll notice a serious difference in performance at that class of CPU. Although the case may say P3 inside, they may have replaced it once or twice and tried to save a buck during a repair long ago. Good luck!.
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