Am 19.10.2010 09:45, schrieb Dale: > Hi, > > I am thinking of upgrading from a FX-5200 with 128Mb video card to a > GeForce 6200 with 512MB. It will be AGP since this is a older rig. My > system is something like this: > > Mobo: Abit NF7 2.0 > CPU: AMD 2500+ No overclocking > Memory: 2Gbs of 333Mhz. > Monitor: Gateway 19" running 1280 x 1024 > > I think my memory is fine, it never uses all of it, or even half of it, > except for caching stuff. I may try to get a 3000+ or 3200+ CPU if I > can run up on a good deal. I'm thinking of doing the video card first > because it is cheaper. I have also noticed that playing movies on here > is getting a bit slow if I go full screen or close to full screen. I'm > bad to download from youtube and then play them locally full screen or > as close as it will allow. > > I do use the nvidia drivers. Currently: > > nvidia-drivers-173.14.25 > > I'm on that one because I think I need to upgrade my kernel to use the > latest one that was recently put in the tree. I'm looking at this card: > > http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814133328 > > What kind of improvement can I expect from this video card upgrade? > While I am at it, the CPU upgrade won't make that much difference > right? Maybe 20% or so faster or something like that? >
Hi Dale, first and foremost, a newer card will allow you to use the newest driver series (195.*.*) which is always a good thing ;) It also gives you more texture units. You can use these to transfer more work to your GPU (mostly scaling and such). Take a look at `man mplayer` section '-vo gl' for a list of options. VLC has similar options, I think. I don't know about gstreamer or xine. I could be wrong but I don't think that adobe-flash uses these options. That is probably part of the problem why flash is so much slower on GNU/Linux than on Windows. If my assumption is true, you are better off buying a faster CPU. You could also test how gnash performs. Since it uses ffmpeg (AFAIK) it might be worth a try. Please take my advices with a big dose of salt. While I still run an old desktop with nearly identical specs, I almost never use Youtube and therefore have no experience with that. Hope this helps, Florian Philipp
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