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