“I got an older PC lying around and was thinking of putting Windows 7 on it. What are the Windows 7 system requirements? ”
Here’s what it takes to run Windows 7 on a PC:
- 1 gigahertz (GHz) or faster 32-bit (x86) or 64-bit (x64) processor
- 1 gigabyte (GB) RAM (32-bit) or 2 GB RAM (64-bit)
- 16 GB available hard disk space (32-bit) or 20 GB (64-bit)
- DirectX 9 graphics device with WDDM 1.0 or higher driver
Those are just the basics for more details check out Microsoft’s’ page here http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows7/products/system-requirements.