I had windows 10 installed on my old core 2 E8600 system with 8 gigs of ddr2 1066 and honestly it ran just fine. It wasn't a speed demon or anything but with a SSD it was snappy enough.

But this board support max a E6700 and 4Gb of memory

It'll still run. My wife's older laptop was similar CPU and 4 gigs of RAM. It served her needs fine untill the battery failed

chrismeyer6 wrote on 2024-05-17, 19:07:

It'll still run. My wife's older laptop was similar CPU and 4 gigs of RAM. It served her needs fine untill the battery failed

interesting thanks.. and what about the use of Windows7 in this scenario? about browser availability ecc

If we are just talking about Windows then:
Windows 10 will likely be more memory efficient than 7 but it'll all be gobbled up by the browser so make sure you use pihole,noscript/ublock origin, etc.
You may want to compare 10 32bit vs 64bit as far as memory usage.
There are stripped down versions of Windows 10 out there if you don't want to do so yourself but those can't be mentioned here.

It takes a bit of effort to find an up-to-date browser supporting windows 7.
It's a shame because windows 10's memory usage is bloated and it doesn't really run acceptably with only 4GB, which rules out using windows on machines that are still fairly usable but have a fixed amount of RAM e.g. laptops, compute sticks...

The main hurdle is Windows 10 loading time on mechanical harddrives. 🫤 Else even first gen Core2Duo is just fine for 10 and even hacked 11.

So would a card like the Asus P5L2D be good as a support computer, internet consultation, CD burning, etc? and would the Floppy disk and IDE channels of this card (which has the 945 chipset) work well on win10 even though technically I don't think it has the drivers for these components?

so i move to hardware section to find a proper MB.. thanks for now

jmarsh wrote on 2024-05-17, 19:51:

It takes a bit of effort to find an up-to-date browser supporting windows 7.

hee... no, you have Supermium, and is in Release Announcements forum

https://github.com/win32ss/supermium

jmarsh wrote on 2024-05-17, 19:51:

It's a shame because windows 10's memory usage is bloated and it doesn't really run acceptably with only 4GB, which rules out using windows on machines that are still fairly usable but have a fixed amount of RAM e.g. laptops, compute sticks...

I dont like 10, in fact hate vista+ NTs, but 10 work fine in a laptop i have with 2GB, just not use official releases, use for example tiny10

jmarsh wrote on 2024-05-17, 19:51:

It takes a bit of effort to find an up-to-date browser supporting windows 7.

Firefox LTS it even has 32bit version.

Windows 10 32bit with a 2.0ghz dual core P6100? 4gb of ram and a 250gb SSD isn't really bad. In my experience there was usually 200mb roughly of memory free. As long as you stuck to 2-3 tabs in Firefox.

I haven't seen any problems with Core 2 and Win10. 4GB is a bit tight but it's adequate for web, email, and a basic office suite. You want an SSD though and a discrete GPU with Win10 drivers, so you aren't sharing system RAM and you aren't on video drivers meant for Vista as the IGP would be.

swaaye wrote on 2024-05-19, 04:16:

I haven't seen any problems with Core 2 and Win10. 4GB is a bit tight but it's adequate for web, email, and a basic office suite. You want an SSD though and a discrete GPU with Win10 drivers, so you aren't sharing system RAM and you aren't on video drivers meant for Vista as the IGP would be.

and an Athlon II X2 250 can be right for Win10??

That should be fine for windows 10 it's a similar era as Core 2