XP+PT 6.4 or 98+PT 5.x for an old Dell and Digi 001?

[scoobydoo]

I'm putting together a rig from an old Digi 001 I've got lying around to give to friend and I'm having trouble finding hardware specs for PT 6.x. The PC is a Dell with 1ghz PIII chip with 640megs of ram. I've got 5.x running on it now in Windows 98 and it's humming along but I'm wondering if I should put XP on it and run 6.4. There's a ton of features in 6.4 that I'd like him to have. What do you think?

[TCM]

Xp, to run smoothly, needs at least 512 MB RAM. So what do you think will be left for PT and VIs?

[spkguitar]

6.4 requires P4 or higher to run.

001/6.4 compatibility archive.

[TOM@METRO]

Right, you are topped out for that Dell.

[scoobydoo]

Well It had 98 on it and I got it running fairly stable. No horse power obviously so I figured this box is gonna be relegated to light duty no mater what so I might as well give it 6.4 so at least he can enjoy the much better interface, plugs and features in 6.4. So I reformated and installed XP SP3 and 6.4 and I'll be damned if it doesn't run a little better! Same track count as far as I can tell and the plug count is not great but it'll work if your resourceful. Reminded me of the old box I used to run the 001 on years ago. I'm really surprised it runs better but it seams too. I'm doing some stress tests now. 16 tracks at 24/48 for 20 minutes and then recording 8 more on top for 20 mins.