celeron 723(1.2ghz) and 4500M intel is better XP or 7 for gaming?

As per title will my laptop (2GB of ram) play the games better with xp or 7.
Does intel graphic driver work better with xp or 7?

 

XP.

That is all.

 

I would assume for a celeron processor, XP would be the best OS. Although that system is not meant for gaming, It will get annoying over time. I have an X3100 in my XPS. It is not meant for gaming but it is possible.

 

Erh what kind of games do you expect to play? Minesweeper?

 

That is a better graphics card than i have on my xps, you will get better performance, but only slightly considering you have a celeron processor. I played counter-strike, 1.6 i think on basically everything maxed out, but then again, counter-strike runs on every computer . Considering you want to run it on a good OS, you will get better performance. Do not expect the improvement to be massive and do not expect to be playing Crysis with good fps.

 

Thanks for the reply guys.
I know that intel vga sucks.
In fact I previously had to use for few weeks an integrated x3100 on a desktop 2 years ago.
The fact is that when I used it, even games like Zuma (a very light 2d game) didn't work properly (the way the balls were coloured).
I guess the problem was the driver, so what I'm asking is are better the intel vga driver for xp or for 7, given the fact that in both case I wouldn't get the performance I could expect from ati or nvidia integrated?

 

I would expect it to perform better on XP, with the latest driver, as the OS is not likely to integrate new features to the graphics card. If it is big enough hard drive, try experimenting by partitioning it into two different partitons, and install both OS's on each partition, And check it out for yourself. I would highly recommend using XP, as on my smallest system, ASUS 4G with GMA900, it is best on XP, as i have tried windows 7 and windows vista. If you do not have enough space for testing, Install XP as it does not use any graphical features like vista and windows 7

 

XP will be better as it uses less resources and it being limited to DX9 isn't going to hurt anything since you have low end graphics. HL2 and anything of that era is going to run pretty well on it though. Games like Farcry 2 and crysis are not playable.

Being called a celeron doesn't hinder performance. The fact that it is a core 2 solo does.

 

I put Windows 7 on a laptop with a CeleronM 1.4, 2gb ram and an Intel GMA900 igp, and it runs better than XP Home that was on it before. It doesn't have Aero, but that's because the GMA900 is a fail IGP.

My recommendation is to simply try it. If Windows7 doesn't run well (and I honestly don't see why it would run bad), then format and reinstall XP.

 

Well actaully a celeron processor is weaker than another intel processor with the same clock speed. Celeron is usaully aimed for budget users usaully with less cache memory or by disabling a couple of features from the processor it is based on. It will not technically hinder a game that is gpu bound but will hinder other games that are affected by the processor.

 

While some power saving features (only downclocking and undervolting) are removed from most celerons, the lower performance per clockspeed is not always true, as the only difference is reduced cache which often, though not always, can have little to no impact on performance.

 

Cache is a very important feature in a processor, it needs to have the right amount to handle all tasks. On my eee, i notice it lagging while on 630 MHz, but if i increase it to default clockspeed, i can tolerate it but if i increase it to 1GHz, then you seen the real difference.

 

There aren't many often used programs that show much difference between varying amounts of cache. Also I don't know why you are bringing the processor's frequency into it, that has nothing to do with cache. I get the feeling you don't really understand what cache is or how it works. As far as playing any games goes, the OP isn't going to be able to tell between 1 and 6 MB of L2 cache on that processor.

 

I actaully do know what cache is, it is the memory integrated into the cpu to improve perfromance whilst transfering data between the hard disk to the ram an then to the cpu. It is integrated to help speed up the process in between the ram and the cpu. First they used cache and then saw that they needed more cache that was faster between the cache and the cpu, and so they created L1 L2 and L3. I took all of that crap in a computer architecture and assembly language class. I brought frequensy into this because he has 1.2GHz, not that much performance and seeing as he has an integrated graphics card, the cpu is going to be doing lots of processing.

 

I would say Windows 7 since it does run more efficiently and intel driver for it should be better than xp...