Adam Carter wrote:
Nice link. I didn't even think of looking on that site. I guess
one good thing to go by is the processing power and memory. After
all, that's what makes it all work faster. Looks like I'm still
getting a pretty old card but I don't play any hard core games or
anything. Playing videos is about as much load as the card will
see with me. I do play Kpatience tho. Love my card games.
I would have thought you would have no problems at all with your
current system. IIRC I had no problem with full screen SD video using
mplayer on a Athlon 2200 with a crappy integrated 440MX video...
what's the CPU utilization when you're playing the full screen video?
I'm just thinking changing the card might not make any difference.
The CPU is usually at about 40 or 50% or so. Sometimes it goes higher
but I can usually watch a video while emerge is running as far as CPU
time goes, although emerge takes longer that way.
I'm wondering if the card may be getting hot and slowing down because of
that? i replaced the heat sink a good while back and I got more than
enough cooling on the case. The heat sink has a fan and maybe it is not
turning or something. I did blow out the dust a while back and I do
have filters over the intakes to help some.
Dale
:-) :-)
