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On 15:50 Mon 09 Oct , Jack Lloyd wrote: |
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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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Jack, |
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That was with the onboard video (less than brilliant). I don't think |
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much video decompression would be done on the graphics card. An upgrade |
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(more video ram) would mean that you could run it at higher resolutions |
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with higher colour depths and refresh rates though. Another thing I never |
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figured out (didn't spend much time trying to admitedly) was the sound |
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output at the back? If you go ahead with this and it works do let me know |
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as I have got 2 of these things and I am struggling to find a use for them. |
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Regards, |
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Oliver Wilson |
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