MrWizard wrote:
Assuming that PCI video card goes to an External monitor
This great info for the desktop crowd
But does absolutely nothing to help the OP ...Mexi
I was working on a desktop PC.
Of course a PCI video card would not fit into a laptop..
My comparison was to show that folks are making outlandish "assumptions" that a newer OS can not run on a "lesser" PC..
BUT, as I mentioned, even if Win7 does not "support" drivers for some older video hardware then the GENERIC DEFAULT WINDOWS BASIC video driver is used by Win7.. The downside to that is you lose the crappy "Aereo" themes (useless garbage that wastes resources) and you will have a limited set of screen resolutions to work with..
In my case, I was working on a backoffice PC for my Church, they have limited resources and the PC was failing (blown caps on the system board).. I put a slightly newer used system board and processor that I had laying around and loaded a legally licensed OEM Win7 Pro OS on the PC for them.. They didn't have the budget to spend an extra $200 for a faster dual core processor, system board and memory.. Fixed them up for the cost of the OEM license ($135).
While my comparison my not "help" Mexi it is to show folks that Win7 is not as bloated as older OS versions and as long as the system board is SUPPORTED it IS possible to run Win7 on a slower PC than a "dual core" and be reasonably fast.
