System Hardware Requirements for All Versions Of Windows Desktop OS

System Hardware Requirements for All Versions Of Windows OS

1) Windows 8 System Hardware Requirement

Processor: 1 GHz or faster processor
Hard Disk: 16 GB of available hard disk space (32-bit) or 20 GB (64-bit)
RAM: 1 GB (32-bit) or 2 GB (64-bit)
Graphics: DirectX 9 graphics device with Windows display driver model 1.0 or higher.

 


2) Windows 7 System Hardware Requirement

Processor: 1 GHz or faster processor. 32-bit (x86) or 64-bit (x64)
Hard Disk: 16 GB of available disk space (32-bit)/20 GB (64- bit)
RAM: 1 GB of RAM (32-bit)/2 GB of RAM (64-bit)
Graphics: DirectX 9 graphics device with WDDM 1.0 or higher driver

3) Windows Vista System Hardware Requirement

 

Processor: 1 GHz, 32-bit (x86) or 64-bit (x64) processor
Hard Disk: 15 GB of available space (20 GB for Home Basic)
RAM: 1 GB of system RAM (512 MB for Home Basic)
Graphics: Support for DirectX 9 graphics with WDDM and 128 MB of graphics memory (32 MB for Home Basic)

4) Windows Xp system Hardware Requirement

  

Processor: 233 MHz CPU
Hard Disk: 1.5 GB of available hard disk space
RAM: 64 MB of RAM (limited performance and features)
Graphics: Super VGA (800 x 600) or higher-resolution video adapter and monitor

5) Windows 2000 System Hardware Requirement

Processor: 133 MHz or higher Pentium-compatible CPU
Hard Disk: 2 GB hard disk with a minimum of 1.0 GB free space. (If you are installing over a network, additional free hard disk space is required.)
RAM: 256 MB recommended. [128 MB minimum; 4 GB maximum]
Graphics: VGA or higher resolution (16-bit or 24-bit color SVGA recommended)

6) Windows 98 System Hardware Requirement

  

Processor: 66 MHz or faster processor (Pentium CPU recommended)
Hard Disk: 195 mb of free space
RAM: 16 MB of Ram memory (24 MB recommended)
Graphics: VGA or higher resolution (16-bit or 24-bit color SVGA recommended)

 7) Windows 95 System Hardware Requirement

Processor: 486 (or 386 w/math coprocessor)
RAM: 8 MB (really 16 MB) Hard Disk: min OS is 30 MB (really 500 MB)
Graphics: No special graphics requirements

These are the minimum system requirements for each version of Windows. Installing the right version of windows on your pc can avoid system crashes later on.