Windows 10 on 2004 PC?

Windows 10 on 2004 PC?

I've been experimenting with my old 2004 Windows XP PC. This has an ASUS A8N-SLI, motherboard (NVidia NForce 4 based), 1.1GHZ AMD CPU, 2GB RAM and a 200GB hard drive. I clean installed Windows 7 Ultimate via a cheap licence and it works quite well.

System Manufacturer/Model Number: Dell Inspiron 7537 Laptop & Home Built PC

OS: Windows 10 Home x64 (Laptop), Windows 10 Pro x64 (Desktop)

CPU: i5-3570K (Desktop) & i7-4500U (Laptop)

Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-Z77X-UD5H (Desktop), Dell (Laptop)

Memory: 16GB (Desktop), 8GB (Laptop)

Graphics Card: Sapphire Toxic R9 280X (Desktop), Intel / Geforce GT750M (Laptop)

Sound Card: Realtek HD

Monitor(s) Displays: Viewsonic VP2770 (Desktop)

Screen Resolution: 2560x1440 (Desktop), 1920x1080 (Laptop)

Keyboard: Microsoft Digital Media Pro

Mouse: Logitech Wireless

PSU: EVGA SuperNova G2 850W (Desktop)

Case: Nanoxia Deep Silence 1

Cooling: Noctua NH-D14 (Desktop)

Hard Drives: Desktop: 180GB Intel 520 SSD, 2T Seagate HDD, 500GB Maxtor HDD, 2T Seagate Expansion external HDD Laptop: 500GB Samsung Evo 850 SSD

Internet Speed: 70Mbps

Browser: Chrome, IE & Edge

Antivirus: Kaspersky Total Security 2018

Other Info: Office 2010 & interested in photography applications - Lightroom etc.

System Manufacturer/Model Number: Self Build

OS: Windows 10 Pro

CPU: Athlon 64 3000

Motherboard: Asus A8N-SLI

Graphics Card: NVidia GTS8800

Sound Card: Realtek

Monitor(s) Displays: Viewsonic VP730

Screen Resolution: 1280x1024

Hard Drives: 200GB

Internet Speed: 70 Mbps

Browser: Chrome & Edge

Other Info: Ancient PC stressed by Windows 10!

My experience is that on lower end machines the improvement gained from Windows 10 over Windows 7 is more noticeable than on higher end machines. I would say try it. What have you got to lose, but a little bit of time?

System Manufacturer/Model Number: HP Pavillion

OS: Windows 10 Pro

Be nice to all, please?!

If that AMD is at least dual core, it could be manageable, otherwise CPU will be constantly on 100%.

If you are just playing with it, try to apply those tweaks, if it is unusable.

System Manufacturer/Model Number: TairikuOkami

OS: Windows 10.4 Home 1709 x64

CPU: AMD FX4100@4,35GHz with Noctua NH-U12S (11/2016)

Motherboard: ASUS M5A97 LE R2.0 2701 (11/2016)

Memory: 4x 4GB ADATA XPG 1.0 DDR3-2133X CL10 (11/2016)

Graphics Card: ASUS STRIX RX460 O4G GAMING (11/2016)

Sound Card: Creative Sound Blaster Z (11/2016)

Monitor(s) Displays: 19.5" Fujitsu L20T-5 LED (11/2016)

Screen Resolution: 1600x900@60Hz (DVI-D)

Keyboard: Logitech K360 (10/2011)

Mouse: Logitech M705 (04/2010)

PSU: Seasonic M12II-520 80 Plus Bronze (11/2016)

Case: Lian Li PC-7NB + 3x Noctua NF-S12A FLX@1000rpm (11/2016) i.imgur.com/vay0x4b.jpg valid.x86.fr/3p2s9b

Hard Drives: 2x Seagate ST1000DM003-1ER162 within 2x Scythe Himuro SCH-1000 (11/2016) + Short-stroked - i.imgur.com/8lVz0Sp.jpg

Internet Speed: 50/50 via TL-WR940N V4 (07/2017) + TCP Optimizer

Browser: Yandex + DuckDuckGo Search + anti-tracking extensions https://browser.yandex.com/security

Antivirus: Windows Firewall + DNS.Watch + OpenDNS Family (DNSCrypt)

Other Info: Headphones: Sennheiser RS170 (09/2010) + ow.ly/g6QL303Wv7d

System Manufacturer/Model Number: Dell Inspiron 7537 Laptop & Home Built PC

OS: Windows 10 Home x64 (Laptop), Windows 10 Pro x64 (Desktop)

CPU: i5-3570K (Desktop) & i7-4500U (Laptop)

Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-Z77X-UD5H (Desktop), Dell (Laptop)

Memory: 16GB (Desktop), 8GB (Laptop)

Graphics Card: Sapphire Toxic R9 280X (Desktop), Intel / Geforce GT750M (Laptop)

Sound Card: Realtek HD

Monitor(s) Displays: Viewsonic VP2770 (Desktop)

Screen Resolution: 2560x1440 (Desktop), 1920x1080 (Laptop)

Keyboard: Microsoft Digital Media Pro

Mouse: Logitech Wireless

PSU: EVGA SuperNova G2 850W (Desktop)

Case: Nanoxia Deep Silence 1

Cooling: Noctua NH-D14 (Desktop)

Hard Drives: Desktop: 180GB Intel 520 SSD, 2T Seagate HDD, 500GB Maxtor HDD, 2T Seagate Expansion external HDD Laptop: 500GB Samsung Evo 850 SSD

Internet Speed: 70Mbps

Browser: Chrome, IE & Edge

Antivirus: Kaspersky Total Security 2018

Other Info: Office 2010 & interested in photography applications - Lightroom etc.

System Manufacturer/Model Number: Self Build

OS: Windows 10 Pro

CPU: Athlon 64 3000

Motherboard: Asus A8N-SLI

Graphics Card: NVidia GTS8800

Sound Card: Realtek

Monitor(s) Displays: Viewsonic VP730

Screen Resolution: 1280x1024

Hard Drives: 200GB

Internet Speed: 70 Mbps

Browser: Chrome & Edge

Other Info: Ancient PC stressed by Windows 10!

Turn that machine into a file server and don't throw any money at it.

System Manufacturer/Model Number: HP DV7 3173nr

My test machine (system two below) is slightly newer vintage, but at 1GB RAM is theoretically below minimum spec* (2GB) for Windows 10. It's now running (x86) Fall Creators Update without a problem - and it's more responsive with any version of 10 than it is when I restore its Win7 image. It's actually quite useable for basic Office tasks and browsing, but as it's main purpose is as a test bed a little thrashing of the swapfile is unimportant to me.

System Manufacturer/Model Number: Toshiba Satellite L750

OS: 10 Home x64 (1709) (10 Pro on 2nd pc)

CPU: Intel Pentium B950 @2.10GHz

System Manufacturer/Model Number: Samsung R519

OS: 10 Pro x86 (1709, 1703, 1607, 1511. 1507), 7 Pro x86

CPU: Intel Celeron T3100 1.9GHz

Other Info: Test/support machine - uses multiple system images to switch OS.

My test machine (system two below) is slightly newer vintage, but at 1GB RAM is theoretically below minimum spec* (2GB) for Windows 10. It's now running (x86) Fall Creators Update without a problem - and it's more responsive with any version of 10 than it is when I restore its Win7 image. It's actually quite useable for basic Office tasks and browsing, but as it's main purpose is as a test bed a little thrashing of the swapfile is unimportant to me.

System Manufacturer/Model Number: Dell Inspiron 7537 Laptop & Home Built PC

OS: Windows 10 Home x64 (Laptop), Windows 10 Pro x64 (Desktop)

CPU: i5-3570K (Desktop) & i7-4500U (Laptop)

Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-Z77X-UD5H (Desktop), Dell (Laptop)

Memory: 16GB (Desktop), 8GB (Laptop)

Graphics Card: Sapphire Toxic R9 280X (Desktop), Intel / Geforce GT750M (Laptop)

Sound Card: Realtek HD

Monitor(s) Displays: Viewsonic VP2770 (Desktop)

Screen Resolution: 2560x1440 (Desktop), 1920x1080 (Laptop)

Keyboard: Microsoft Digital Media Pro

Mouse: Logitech Wireless

PSU: EVGA SuperNova G2 850W (Desktop)

Case: Nanoxia Deep Silence 1

Cooling: Noctua NH-D14 (Desktop)

Hard Drives: Desktop: 180GB Intel 520 SSD, 2T Seagate HDD, 500GB Maxtor HDD, 2T Seagate Expansion external HDD Laptop: 500GB Samsung Evo 850 SSD

Internet Speed: 70Mbps

Browser: Chrome, IE & Edge

Antivirus: Kaspersky Total Security 2018

Other Info: Office 2010 & interested in photography applications - Lightroom etc.

System Manufacturer/Model Number: Self Build

OS: Windows 10 Pro

CPU: Athlon 64 3000

Motherboard: Asus A8N-SLI

Graphics Card: NVidia GTS8800

Sound Card: Realtek

Monitor(s) Displays: Viewsonic VP730

Screen Resolution: 1280x1024

Hard Drives: 200GB

Internet Speed: 70 Mbps

Browser: Chrome & Edge

Other Info: Ancient PC stressed by Windows 10!

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