Vista on older hardware.. Posible?

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So i am running windows 7 on Single core 2.66GHz Celeron D 331 and 1.5Gb ram
Can i run Windows Vista? And how much performance i will get? And gaming + virtualbox? I am thinking about core 2 duo E6600 so soon it will be faster.
Or i will just stick with win xp
 
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It's an older processor, but I don't see why not. The Celeron D 331 was released in 2005 so it should be perfectly capable of handling Windows Vista. My current PC (soon to be replaced) runs on a 2006 AMD dual-core processor and it's running Windows 7 quite happily.

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Emanuel Elmo

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the short answer is NO.
 
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It's an older processor, but I don't see why not. The Celeron D 331 was released in 2005 so it should be perfectly capable of handling Windows Vista. My current PC (soon to be replaced) runs on a 2006 AMD dual-core processor and it's running Windows 7 quite happily.

 
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if you actually believe that vista is going to run well on hold hardware you are going to be in for a very big surprise. There was a reason why it was such a hugh flop and one of the problems was that it needed a beast of a machine to run on it.

Vista and only 1.5 GB of ram will barely move since many people could barely get it to operate with only 4GB of memory.

the reason why windows 7 works well is because it was a complete overhaul of the kernel. Vista barely ran in a system that had a dual core processor and 8GB of memory and that was my own system.

Again... the short answer is NO.
 
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I think a bit more ram would help and secondhand DDR2 ram is dirt-cheap these days. I know there was a lot of talk when Vista came out about how it ran very slow and froze-up on some PC's, but I had a PC a couple of years ago that was a pretty old machine with an aging single-core AMD processor and it ran Vista okay. I can't recall if it was 32-bit or 64-bit, but I didn't have any trouble with it.
 
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Oh.. Then i will stick with XP. This is last year in school and i will buy better pc. Laptop for work and small gaming(i want to play Battlefield 3 and 4 and newest releases of need for speed and i want to penetrate my home WiFi:D and i will need pc to hold Kali linux 2(Virtual machine) ...so good pc in budget about 600 Euro
 
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you would be one of the few. Not completely un-heard of... but on of the few.

I could never get Vista to run properly on any maching that didn't have least of 8gb of memory. I can recall all the crap I had to turn off on Vista just to get to to even run well on a laptop with a dual core and 4GB of memory. let along make it fly and still at the end of the day I was waiting ages for thing to load and the experience was, to say the least, unbearable.

Once windows 7 came out... everything work so well. it was going from a boat to a sports car... in terms of OS.

The only machine I had that ran vista well, was my last rig and that had 16GB of ram and a quad core processor in it and it would fly.

I tip my hat to you sir that you have a copy of vista that ran well on old hardware.
 
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I thought you said you were running windows 7 from your original post.

if you are not and you are actually running windows xp and it was just a typo on your part. Windows 7 will run better than Vista on your machine.
 
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