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If you have a Pentium Processor ... answer this..

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Cybordolphin

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If you have a newer Pent. Processor....

Can you watch a DVD (without an add-on card - like H.PLUS), AND scan using a program like "Adaware", without any freezing (even momentary) of the DVD movie?

I am just curious.

And if you are able to do the above without any minor freezing..... which Pent processor are you using?

Thanks.
 
Do you mean Pentium as in Pentium 1's??? or just pentium class CPU's in general.... ??

The only time I had some skipping was on a P2 450, but I added some RAM and fixed it right away.... Are you using software or hardware DVD decoding??

And you might want to ask this in General Hardware, as it's not really a CPU/OC'ing question... 😛
 
I have been running AMD processors for about the last year or so... always PENT prior to that. But... I am surprised to find that the 2100+ processors don't seem to have enough Umph to take care of playing a DVD without minor freezing while doing other task (using Morpheous, etc). I just would have thought that the newer CPU's would not even hickup. Only running 256 Ram.... but as I recall my PENT processors handled the task(s) much better.

Sort of feel like I am experiencing the same performance as I did with the Old PENT II processors. I am using software dvd playback, (I have hardware/not currently using.... but thought that by now... hardware playback would not be needed). Running at about 1.85 gHz. But like I said only 256mb Ram.

Asked here.... as I was curious with regard to "processors", and if PENT is superior in this respect. We're not talking heavy video processing here...

Anyway... just curious.

 
that really has nothing to do with it. I wouldn't blame it on your processor. Watching a dvd movie while multitasking is a somewhat intensive thing for your computer. That shouldn't happen though. Are u sure ur just running morpheus? or more stuff?
 
Some issues I have seen definitely seem to be related to microsuck....I can watch a dvd on my system and only take 8-12% cpu utilization yet just the right program that may have priority set differently cause a slight vdeo speed up effect on the DVD and yet never hit 100% utilization...That being said I believe most of it is a software issue and once again Microsuck is likley the cause.
 
Try this: reinstall the nForce2 driver package but when it asks if you want to install the "SW" performance IDE drivers, say No. I have it on reliable authority that this causes the WHQL-certified IDE drivers to be installed in place of the "performance" IDE drivers. The difference is that Windows regards the "SW" drivers as SCSI, but the others as IDE. You may need to enable DMA and force it in Device Manager. I have an 8RDA+ arriving tomorrow and will have a better firsthand look at this myself.
 
Hard drives are the slowest link... so I'd look there first. With 256 MB of RAM, if you're running Windows XP, it's probably swapping a ton of stuff out of RAM and to the hard drive if you're doing a lot of things at once. My "XP2000" with 512 MB of RAM doesn't even hiccup when I'm downloading at 150 KB/s and playing a DVD (I just tried it to see if I experienced the same thin you did)

I've had the opposite experience as you have in the past... Intel has seemed sluggish multi-tasking and AMD has seemed not to stumble at all when multi-tasking. Even with my old Duron 700 I never had a problem like that.
 
It sounds like you need a memory upgrade. I noticed slowdown when I burned out a 256 MB stick of Crucial PC2100. Now I am only running with 256 MB and it's obvious when there is HD swapping.
 
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