At 1:54 PM -0500 2/5/2012, JohnV wrote:
When a wonderful 2.0GHz G5 (8G mem) failed. I moved the drives into a 1.8GHz G5 (2G mem)
Did you clear and rebuild the kernel and system caches after you moved the drives?
and am really surprised at what seems to be its lack of performance... just doing youtube stuff, even without enlarging the playback, it stutters every 3sec or so on playback.
Neither the regular flash player nor perian are memory pigs. And anything over .8 GHz should have no problemo playing YouTube stuff, regardless of the video card.
That the stutter is happening every 3 sec tells me there is something else going on. Something else is running on that cycle, or your network connection is having issues. Errant spotlight indexing is a prime candidate. Use Activity Monitor to check things.
Use a tool such as AppleJack or OnyX to clear and rebuild your kernel and system caches. Then clear out the user caches. Make sure whatever app(s) you're using to play the videos are up-to-date, ditto the codecs. Then do some speed tests and then some traceroutes to youtube...
In the future please provide basic hardware and software configuration information in your FIRST posting. At this point, there are 4 messages from you in this thread and you still haven't said anything about the software environment! We donno what OS is involved, whether it's up to date, what apps, what specific videos, etc... so suggestions that you replace the video card or add memory are totally premature. It makes no sense to recommend expanding memory until you check to see if the memory have is even being used, etc.
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