Re: deciding on a new amd64 system

2007-06-07 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Wed, Jun 06, 2007 at 11:15:06PM +0200, Gilles Sadowski wrote: I'm also inquiring about hardware for a new system. Based on previous posts (with some replacements for parts I didn't readily found in the closest shop), here is my tentative list (with alternative choices): CPU

Re: deciding on a new amd64 system

2007-06-07 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Wed, Jun 06, 2007 at 08:21:53PM -0500, Jaime Ochoa Malag?n wrote: The RAM is very important take care of this... True. So far I have been happy with Corsair, and OCZ. Certainly go for a well known name brand. -- Len Sorensen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Re: deciding on a new amd64 system

2007-06-07 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Thu, Jun 07, 2007 at 06:02:02AM +, Sam Varghese wrote: I have used both Intel and AMD dual-core and find AMD better for my work; I'm basing this on one thing, the speed of processing video files. Which intel? The P4 was a piece of [EMAIL PROTECTED] design wise. The Core 2 is nothing

Re: deciding on a new amd64 system

2007-06-07 Thread Robert Isaac
Of course you can get a stupid little Athlon 64 X2 3600+ system from dell for $399CDN at the moment. Hard to beat that price/performance ratio. Of course it is a Dell, so who knows... :) -- Len Sorensen If you go the Dell route be sure to pick the Ubuntu pre-installed choice. It may be

Re: deciding on a new amd64 system

2007-06-07 Thread Sam Varghese
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, Jun 07, 2007 at 04:09:22PM -0400 Lennart Sorensen said: On Thu, Jun 07, 2007 at 06:02:02AM +, Sam Varghese wrote: I have used both Intel and AMD dual-core and find AMD better for my work; I'm basing this on one thing, the speed of

Ideas why dvd playback is jerky?

2007-06-07 Thread Kenward Vaughan
Is this an issue with the amd64 arch, or something else? I have an AMD 5600+ cpu paired with an Nvidia 7600 GS card, which strikes me as more than adequate to work with a DVD (my older XP 2500+ had no problems...). The video is literally jerky, and poorly sync'd with the audio. It doesn't seem