|  | Minimum: | Recommended: | 
  
    | CPU | Intel Pentium 133 MHz CPU or higher: such as Intel Celeron, PIII, P4, AMD K6, Athlon, Duron; | any modern CPU: the higher the frequency the better performance;
          NOTE: eComStation may not detect Intel P4 HT as a dual CPU setup in all cases; | 
  
    | RAM | 48 MB of RAM is an absolute minimum required to install eCS from CD. When starting the installation from boot floppy, the minimum required amount of RAM is 32 MB; | 64 MB of RAM is a practical minimum, 4 GB is maximum supported amount. Install as much RAM as you need; | 
  
    | Video adapter | PCI VGA video card with at least 512 kB memory; | AGP video card supported by SciTech Display Doctor (see compatible hardware list at http://www.ecomstation.com/ ); | 
  
    | Harddrive | 500 MB of free hard drive space; | 1 GB of hard drive space (that's reasonable for everyday use); | 
  
    | Mouse | PS/2, serial or USB mouse; | PS/2 mouse is recommended to free the USB ports; | 
  
    | CD-ROM | IDE or SCSI optical drive. | any IDE or SCSI CD/DVD drive capable of booting; | 
  
    | Network adapter | an Ethernet network adapter. | Ethernet, WiFi adapters |