RE: Cheap Linux compatible video cards

OK, like I said the more info you give us the better, So far what I can
gleam is that you have an 8x AGP card. with maybe 128MB vid memory

My system
ASUS M4A78 Pro MB
AMD Athlon 64 X2 5000 2.6 Ghz cpu
4GB Mem
ATI 3870 512MB PCI-Express 2.0 video card.

I do see some agp cards with 1GB mem, but because agp tech is old you pay
more for agp then you would for the pci-e equivalent.

your cpu should handle video ok, but you don't say how much memory you have,
could you be disk swapping ?

so It's hard to determine where your bottleneck is.

PCI Express is like 8 times faster than AGP, so you'll never get video
processing power like we have today.

It also depends on the codec, so codecs require more cpu ( don't think this
is the issue, but it's something to think about)

Also you're talking about streaming video from espn, are you sure it's not
your connection ?






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From: plug-discuss-bounces@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us
[mailto:plug-discuss-bounces@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us] On Behalf Of Lyle
Tuttle
Sent: Monday, November 09, 2009 12:11 PM
To: Main PLUG discussion list
Subject: RE: Cheap Linux compatible video cards


At 11:11 AM 11/9/2009, you wrote:


What are your system specs ?


2.53 Intel P4
133 meg buss




I had video lag issues at one time, even after I got a better video card, it
turned out it was the cpu, went to X2 2.6 from x1 2.0 and things were fine
after that.

What do you want to upgrade, the card, the card and power supply, or the
whole computer ?


Just the card, if it is worth the time/money -- I have a hard time watching
football on espn360.com.......<G>...too jerky




What do you want to do on the upgraded system ?


Only want better video.....all else is ok...




The more input we have the better we can help.




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<mailto:plug-discuss-bounces@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us>
mailto:plug-discuss-bounces@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us] On Behalf Of Lyle
Tuttle
Sent: Monday, November 09, 2009 11:03 AM
To: Main PLUG discussion list
Subject: RE: Cheap Linux compatible video cards

So, I have an older system, 250 Watt Power supply, with a NVIDIA Gforce4 Ti
4200 card.....and I get some "herky-jerky" video out......

Seems like all the newer, faster cards want 300 watt power...... I would
like to upgrade.

Any suggestions..............?

lyle


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