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| Thread ID: 115743 | 2011-02-01 18:05:00 | Youtube videos slow, old computer | henri09 (16210) | Press F1 |
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| 1174391 | 2011-02-01 18:05:00 | I have a temporary comp., which has 700 Mhz duron processor, SiS chipset and integrated videocard, dxdiag says it's 64 mb, 192 MB of Ram, when watching youtube videos on 240 p(pixels), it's sufferable to watch, but on 360pixels, that the picture would be sharper and really would see something, It makes it rather a slideshow, not a video, even though the picture gets really better in the video, also the macrowave and this kind of games are slowmotion ...I thought somebody would say what would be the biggest issue here, a videocard or processor or somekind of a third party... Thankyou |
henri09 (16210) | ||
| 1174392 | 2011-02-01 19:53:00 | Open the task manager and check your CPU usage while watching a video. I suspect that your CPU will be way to slow to watch .flv or .mp4 that youtube uses and your GPU is very underpowered as well. I'd give up watching anything over 240p until you can get a PC from this century :D |
autechre (266) | ||
| 1174393 | 2011-02-01 20:32:00 | you have a duron which is a cheaper version cpu to the athlon. i have a pentium III - 600 on my older lappie, not the cheaper celeron. it depends what you play. some are fine, some are not, that's probably higher definition .... what games do you play? if you want to upgrade and don't really play games, you might be better off upgrading the cpu which requires the motherboard and ram, can get some for maybe $100 each off some stores, if you are on low budget, could consider used as well. |
Nomad (952) | ||
| 1174394 | 2011-02-02 07:12:00 | A cheap agp card and perhaps some more ram would greatly improve things. are you in auckland? |
urbanguerilla (16164) | ||
| 1174395 | 2011-02-02 18:57:00 | Thankyou for this information, I see almost clearly whats wrong with it now, well I assumed that, but wanted to be sure...but for watching videos on youtube, the 700 mhz processor isn't the weakest point? rather the videocard and ram? as computer usage is like 85 to 100% usage when watching video there. Also what agp card the SiS chipset demands? Nvidia or ATI? A 64 mb Nvidia or ATI card would be really better than the Sis integrated 64 mb right? I'm from Estonia. |
henri09 (16210) | ||
| 1174396 | 2011-02-02 21:01:00 | not sure I'd spend money on this at all, it's never going to be great at video playback. CPU too slow needs more RAM onboard Graphics of that generation is particularly weak. by contrast the cheapest MB /CPU / RAM combo you can get (around $300 for AMD dual core with 4G RAM) would walk all over anything you could do to this machine and onboard graphics are greatly improved these days - except for gaming purposes. |
dugimodo (138) | ||
| 1174397 | 2011-02-02 22:41:00 | I see, yeah, that was my point, wanted to know ,getting a good meat or not. Thankyou for your time everybody who tryed to help : ), I'll see what I do then, thanks again , have a nice time, see you. |
henri09 (16210) | ||
| 1174398 | 2011-02-03 09:33:00 | You could pick up an old AGP card for like 10bucks or less and that would stop the onboard video from hogging the limited amount of ram, and it would also free up more of the CPU. In fact if you're in AKL, and are willing to come pick it up from my work.... I have an old Leadtek WinFast A170 DDR (GeForce 4 MX440 SE) 64MB card you can have. |
urbanguerilla (16164) | ||
| 1174399 | 2011-02-03 10:11:00 | In fact if you're in AKL, and are willing to come pick it up from my work.... I have an old Leadtek WinFast A170 DDR (GeForce 4 MX440 SE) 64MB card you can have. A bit far away I think :waughh: en.wikipedia.org |
feersumendjinn (64) | ||
| 1174400 | 2011-02-03 10:32:00 | A bit far away I think :waughh: en.wikipedia.org rofl i didn't read that "I'm from Estonia" bit :blush: |
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