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On Wed, Oct 04, 2006 at 04:55:52PM +0000, Oliver M A Wilson wrote: |
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> What is the clock speed on the cpu? I have never tried DVD/TV on my |
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> 333Mhz Ultra5 but DivX playback was awful, it can just almost cope with |
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> full screen mpeg playback. I think these machines just aren't powerful |
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> enough to cope with modern media apps. |
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333 here as well. Was that with the onboard video? I'm wondering if with |
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a more modern card it can offload more work from the CPU (also I think MPEG-4 |
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is more CPU intensive than MPEG-2, though I'm sure even that will be a strain |
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for this old thing). |
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> By the way, is it the IDE controller that sucks? I always put the crap |
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> hard drive performance down the fact they are 5400rpm disk. |
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Yeah, the driver has a comment describing the chipset as "broken by |
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design". No DMA! I've got a 7200 RPM ATA/66 drive in there now and |
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it's only marginally better. Guess Sun didn't want to canabalize sales |
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of the Ultra2 by giving the 5 decent I/O throughput. |
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-Jack |
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