# Installed Vista on a 4 Year old Comp

**URL:** https://forum.kirupa.com/t/installed-vista-on-a-4-year-old-comp/199355
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**Created:** [September 1, 2006, 4:53pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/installed-vista-on-a-4-year-old-comp/199355 "2006-09-01T16:53:22Z")
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### Author: ![kirupa](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/user_avatar/forum.kirupa.com/kirupa/32/11616_2.png) [@kirupa](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/kirupa)
#### Post date: [September 1, 2006, 4:53pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/installed-vista-on-a-4-year-old-comp/199355/1 "2006-09-01T16:53:22Z")

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I have a fairly old computer that acts as a file/media server for the rest of the computers at home. It’s a P4 2.2, 512MB, 30GB system with a Radeon 9600 graphics card. I decided to take one of my monitors from another comp, hook it up to this computer, and install the recent beta-version of Vista on it.

Surprisingly it works decently, and it even got a higher rating than my primary laptop. It seems like the graphics card really is a big factor in how well a comp runs Vista, since all of the GUI work is offloaded to it. Which might be why I can get away with running all of my apps on 512MB:

[![](http://img356.imageshack.us/img356/8611/sysperformancenn2.th.png)](http://img356.imageshack.us/my.php?image=sysperformancenn2.png)

I’m going to play around with this for a little bit longer before setting IIS7 up and moving it back to the basement where this will hopefully run until I return home for the holidays in a few months.

:sen: