Hi,
I'm just wondering if the AMD Sempron LE-1250 2.20GHz CPU will be OK with Windows 7 Home Premium coupled with 4GB of DDR2 RAM?
Thanks
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Funny you should ask that...
This weekend I built the cheapest PC box I've ever had... took apart an old one (Duron 1200, 256Mb, 80Gb) and added a cheap mATX motherboard with onboard graphics (ASUS), a Sempron LE-1300 and 1Gb RAM. Total cost, £77 ($115?).
Then added a clean install of Windows 7 (RC1). During set up, I ignored it, and it chose to install "Ultimate" It's running absolutely fine with no issues, including Aero. Windows 7 looks good to me, not a huge change from Vista to look at, but seems more efficient. The Windows rating system only gives me a 3.0 overall, but it's mostly falling down on graphics performance. I'm sure that with your 4Gb RAM and a decent graphics card it would be a lot better.
I'm not going to be playing any games, this PC is for office functions, websurfing and a print-server. It'll do everything I want it to.
Today I spent another £45 pre-ordering Windows 7 Home Premium ... to make sure it keeps doing it.
Stu
This weekend I built the cheapest PC box I've ever had... took apart an old one (Duron 1200, 256Mb, 80Gb) and added a cheap mATX motherboard with onboard graphics (ASUS), a Sempron LE-1300 and 1Gb RAM. Total cost, £77 ($115?).
Then added a clean install of Windows 7 (RC1). During set up, I ignored it, and it chose to install "Ultimate" It's running absolutely fine with no issues, including Aero. Windows 7 looks good to me, not a huge change from Vista to look at, but seems more efficient. The Windows rating system only gives me a 3.0 overall, but it's mostly falling down on graphics performance. I'm sure that with your 4Gb RAM and a decent graphics card it would be a lot better.
I'm not going to be playing any games, this PC is for office functions, websurfing and a print-server. It'll do everything I want it to.
Today I spent another £45 pre-ordering Windows 7 Home Premium ... to make sure it keeps doing it.
Stu
QUOTE (Stu23 @ Jul 20 2009, 04:33 PM) 
Funny you should ask that...
This weekend I built the cheapest PC box I've ever had... took apart an old one (Duron 1200, 256Mb, 80Gb) and added a cheap mATX motherboard with onboard graphics (ASUS), a Sempron LE-1300 and 1Gb RAM. Total cost, £77 ($115?).
Then added a clean install of Windows 7 (RC1). During set up, I ignored it, and it chose to install "Ultimate" It's running absolutely fine with no issues, including Aero. Windows 7 looks good to me, not a huge change from Vista to look at, but seems more efficient. The Windows rating system only gives me a 3.0 overall, but it's mostly falling down on graphics performance. I'm sure that with your 4Gb RAM and a decent graphics card it would be a lot better.
I'm not going to be playing any games, this PC is for office functions, websurfing and a print-server. It'll do everything I want it to.
Today I spent another £45 pre-ordering Windows 7 Home Premium ... to make sure it keeps doing it.
Stu
This weekend I built the cheapest PC box I've ever had... took apart an old one (Duron 1200, 256Mb, 80Gb) and added a cheap mATX motherboard with onboard graphics (ASUS), a Sempron LE-1300 and 1Gb RAM. Total cost, £77 ($115?).
Then added a clean install of Windows 7 (RC1). During set up, I ignored it, and it chose to install "Ultimate" It's running absolutely fine with no issues, including Aero. Windows 7 looks good to me, not a huge change from Vista to look at, but seems more efficient. The Windows rating system only gives me a 3.0 overall, but it's mostly falling down on graphics performance. I'm sure that with your 4Gb RAM and a decent graphics card it would be a lot better.
I'm not going to be playing any games, this PC is for office functions, websurfing and a print-server. It'll do everything I want it to.
Today I spent another £45 pre-ordering Windows 7 Home Premium ... to make sure it keeps doing it.
Stu
Yep, it's a budget system here that I'm wanting to build too. I already have some spare parts that I would like to use in it like a cheap 128MB PCI-E graphics card and 2GB of the planned 4GB of RAM.
Also the reason why I want to run Windows 7 on it is because I'm also planning on pre-ordering the discounted £45 Windows 7 Home Premium aswell.
QUOTE (LEEnoble @ Jul 20 2009, 03:42 PM)
Yep, it's a budget system here that I'm wanting to build too. I already have some spare parts that I would like to use in it like a cheap 128MB PCI-E graphics card and 2GB of the planned 4GB of RAM.
Also the reason why I want to run Windows 7 on it is because I'm also planning on pre-ordering the discounted £45 Windows 7 Home Premium aswell.
Also the reason why I want to run Windows 7 on it is because I'm also planning on pre-ordering the discounted £45 Windows 7 Home Premium aswell.
If you're on a budget I'd save yourself £20 and not bother with another 2Gb... it's running fine on 1Gb here. Plenty of stuff on the web to suggest it runs OK on 512Mb too. It's less of a hog than Vista.
I went onto Comet yesterday to pre-order 7 and their price had jumped to £80! PC World (hack, spit) still had it at £45, so I ordered it from them. What was nice as well was they say they won't charge you until it's despatched... I was expecting to have to pay now.
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