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Florian Philipp wrote: |
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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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This particular card I think uses the latest 260.* drivers. That's |
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according to the nvidia site but sometimes that is not correct either. |
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Anyway, I always download the videos off youtube or where ever and then |
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watch them with smplayer locally. It generally works better for the |
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most part. I just have the slow DSL so it skips a bit on some if I |
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don't download it first. I do need a faster CPU but want to get the |
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card first. I do sometimes max out the CPU when watching a video but I |
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think most of the time it is the card that is just getting old and needs |
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a new one that is a little faster at least. For the price, I was going |
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to get a card that is a good bit faster. |
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You are right about the flash thingy. It is a lot slower on this rig. |
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It even slows scrolling down the web pages. It sort of ticks me off |
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sometimes. It is slow on my brothers system to tho. He has windoze XP |
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still. I'm working on putting Linux on there. |
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Work on the CPU next I hope. ;-) |
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Dale |
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:-) :-) |
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