Hi !

I have a Pentium Dual-core T4500 @ 2.30 GHz 2.30 GHz CPU and 4 GB of RAM.

and i wanted to try KDE 5 on this PC, so can this PC handle KDE 5 properly, or at least with some effects disabled ??

In my opinion , if you are not getting a new pc , you should/must get your ram to 8 gb , and if you can use an SSD hope this helps ~

actually im getting a new pc, but im asking to know what to do until i get it

archsiderart wrote:In my opinion , if you are not getting a new pc , you should/must get your ram to 8 gb , and if you can use an SSD hope this helps ~

Of course that helps, but it's absolutely not necessary to run Plasma5.

I'm using it on a Single core 1.8GHz AMD Athlon64 with 2 GiB RAM here and it works fine. (and my hard disk is very old and slow too, definitely no SSD... )
A Pentium Dual-core T4500 @ 2.30 GHz 2.30 GHz CPU and 4 GB of RAM should definitely be "able to handle it properly" IMHO.

What desktop effects are available and how well they work depends more on your graphics card/driver anyway.
OpenGL1 support has been dropped, so if your driver only supports that, you'd have to stick with XRender (with which many desktop effects won't work).

Otherwise I don't think Plasma5 has much heavier resource demands than KDE4's Plasma.

Of course it all depends on your expectations too, and what software you want to run on top of it.