Radeon HD4870 X2 2GB DDR5 PCI Express

[ZackDawley]

Are you running Win7 x64? It really uses about twice the ram as Vista x64, but every upgrade to windows has. Win7 does have a lot going on in the background, and you can shut it off, but if you've got the resources available it will run faster. Sure I could turn that all off and be down to probably 700MB, but indexing on a RAID0 does help.

 

[cavemangrinder]

Hmm. Im using the 32bit version of Windows 7 Ultimate on a laptop with 1GB of memory and an old celeron processor, its a smooth operator. I dont see how the 64bit version would need 4X the amount of ram than the 32bit version just to run the OS.

 

[worshipme]

You might say 4GB is plenty, but I'm telling you that if Microsoft is recommending 4GB for Windows 7 you need double that. Just loading Windows takes up 1.7GB.

1GHz processor (32- or 64-bit)
1GB of main memory
16GB of available disk space
Support for DX9 graphics with 128MB of memory (for the Aero interface)
A DVD-R/W drive

http://lifehacker.com/5126291/windows-7-system-requirements-less-hungry-than-vistas-were

 

[sniperviper21]

1GHz processor (32- or 64-bit)
1GB of main memory
16GB of available disk space
Support for DX9 graphics with 128MB of memory (for the Aero interface)
A DVD-R/W drive

http://lifehacker.com/5126291/windows-7-system-requirements-less-hungry-than-vistas-were

*face Palm*

owned, lol

 

[ZackDawley]

or not since the article you quoted was written before RC1 even was announced for download. Those are the BETA requirements.

http://www.tomshardware.com/news/windows-system-requirements-hardware-rc,7701.html

Or any search of a site that has updated information.

But as quoted on Toms Hardware "he only real changes to the system requirements since January are slightly bumped up ones for the 64-bit version, though we suspect anyone who plans to run the x64 build will have a machine that's way beyond the minimum (having at least 4 GB of RAM would be a good starting point)."

That most x64 systems will have at least 4 GB of Ram.

As far as it running on less, because of MS's new service administrator, services are automatically shutoff when not needed to insure maximum performance. So yeah you can run a system with less, but with current prices of ram, why would you?