Thoughts Required

[Stringent]

I currently have at home a shuttle PC. Consists of an Intel Pentium 4 3.2ghz (Northwood), 1GB RAM, 6800GT and a 250GB Hard disk.

I have inherited a Intel Core 2 Duo E6600, so will be using that as my mail rig (have ordered an Antec P180 and a larger hard drive fro my needs!). Thing is what to do with my shuttle.

I currently have Vista Ultimate on it, and it runs VERY sluggish. I could stick 2GB of RAM in there, will it run any better? It will probably go into my lounge and be used as a sort of guest/media center PC. I have a copy of WinXP Media Centre. Would that be better or should I stick with Vista and add the extra RAM and use its media capabilities?

Component Details Subscore Base score
Processor Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 3.20GHz 4.3
3.5 Determined by lowest subscore

Memory (RAM) 1.00 GB 4.5
Graphics NVIDIA GeForce 6800 GT 5.9
Gaming graphics 511 MB Total available graphics memory 3.5
Primary hard disk 28GB Free (59GB Total) 5.6
Windows Vista (TM) Ultimate

[staffsMike]

I would deffinatly stick XP on it rather than vista. Vista will work better with 2gb of RAM but I would still use XP.

[vicar]

Second that, vista on new rig and xp on shuttle.

[Stringent]

3rded. Now have WinXP Pro, as I thought it was MCE, dunno why. SP2 and 115 updates later ...