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 ?
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.
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 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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