On October 25, 2004 10:56 am, Kevin Anderson wrote: > I know they're supported, but I was playing with a Dell SFF desktop from > work, and I have to say, the video and sound on the i845 boards totally > suck. They work, but barely. > > The box is a P4 2Ghz w/512Megs RAM, and watching a DVD is too choppy to be > watched. (The display actually doesn't ever show anything except pieces of > an interlaced image, they update about 10 times per minuite). Sound is on > for ~.5 of a second, then off for .5, then on, then off. It never gets > better. > > If it was a server, it'd be great, cause it's nice and fast to do most > things, that aren't video or audio intensive, but as a general purpose > desktop, it sucks. I foresee it becoming a IPcop firewall for us, and > it'll be awesome at that for the foreseeable future. > > With a better video card, it would probably be useable. Shared RAM for > video is a stupid idea, and it's never fast enough to be useful, IME. But > it's cheap to put in... >
My laptop has a GeForce4 64MB in it, with the proprietory drivers in I have full 3D and DVDs are perfect as long as the unit isnt sitting on a surface that reflects heat back at it. If the CPU steps down it starts dropping frames. Other specs... P4 2GHz, 512MB RAM, 40+60GB HDD _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Please remove these lines when replying
