In Forum: Microsoft Operating Systems
By User: Wheatley
In addition to your comment, I myself installed the very earliest builds of Windows 8 available here on an older Dell Dimension system with a Pentium 4 processor, which had only 512 MB of RAM, and they worked just fine.
However, that was back before Microsoft removed support for the earlier Pentium 4 processors due to the NX bit requirement in Windows 8 since the Release Candidate/Release Preview. I mean, it was an unfortunate decision that they had to come to, but I can certainly understand why they did it. And by that point, the only system that I was really using Windows 8 on was my current system, since I had stopped updating the other system's Windows 8 installation anyway.
I had some leaks running on my test rig as not too long ago actually.
I got rid of 8 in favor of XP x64 edition, as it had problems with my GeForce 6800 ultra. I also added back the 3.5 gigs of ram that I removed for the tests back so it is not a slow machine anymore. I still fail to understand why MS added the nx-bit requirement though.
By User: Wheatley
In addition to your comment, I myself installed the very earliest builds of Windows 8 available here on an older Dell Dimension system with a Pentium 4 processor, which had only 512 MB of RAM, and they worked just fine.
However, that was back before Microsoft removed support for the earlier Pentium 4 processors due to the NX bit requirement in Windows 8 since the Release Candidate/Release Preview. I mean, it was an unfortunate decision that they had to come to, but I can certainly understand why they did it. And by that point, the only system that I was really using Windows 8 on was my current system, since I had stopped updating the other system's Windows 8 installation anyway.
I had some leaks running on my test rig as not too long ago actually.
I got rid of 8 in favor of XP x64 edition, as it had problems with my GeForce 6800 ultra. I also added back the 3.5 gigs of ram that I removed for the tests back so it is not a slow machine anymore. I still fail to understand why MS added the nx-bit requirement though.