I previously had a 754 A64 3200+, 1.5GB RAM and 6800GT AGP, and just recently took a look at the Step into Liquid 1080p video. Yeah I know, thats so last year. Anyways, at the stock settings I would drop about 400 frames a close to 100% CPU. All the drivers were up to date, so I was fairly disgusted. I looked through some of the archived threads and decided to kick up the fsb to see if it would make a difference. Stock clock speed was 2.2Ghz, so I quickly put it up to 2.5Ghz. Now I was only dropping 4 frames at around 97%, and it was 2 at the beginning and 2 at the mafia line. Always at those exact same spots. 4 frames was better than 400.
Now, I went to the AMD event thing and got a 3200 Venice combo with An8 mobo. Its been sitting since the early part of July, so I figured I'd put it to use. The cheapest decent PCIe video card I could find was the X800xl for $250. So I slapped everything together. I was curious how these venice's OC, so I went from 2Ghz to 2.4Ghz no prob, and started running Prime95. Then I remembered the WMV HD stuff and fired it up, while running Prime95, as I figured it would be a good way to check for instability.
F*cking video is not dropping any frames at all!
I haven't seen any topics on this lately, so what's the deal on this? Is the x800xl accelerating the video to the point where pure CPU speed isn't as important anymore, or are the new Venice CPUs better at wmv HD? In the old threads OC'd Bartons weren't dropping frames, but the lower clocked, but faster A64s were dropping ffames like crazy. P4's above 2.6Ghz with HT didn't drop any.
Now, I went to the AMD event thing and got a 3200 Venice combo with An8 mobo. Its been sitting since the early part of July, so I figured I'd put it to use. The cheapest decent PCIe video card I could find was the X800xl for $250. So I slapped everything together. I was curious how these venice's OC, so I went from 2Ghz to 2.4Ghz no prob, and started running Prime95. Then I remembered the WMV HD stuff and fired it up, while running Prime95, as I figured it would be a good way to check for instability.
F*cking video is not dropping any frames at all!
I haven't seen any topics on this lately, so what's the deal on this? Is the x800xl accelerating the video to the point where pure CPU speed isn't as important anymore, or are the new Venice CPUs better at wmv HD? In the old threads OC'd Bartons weren't dropping frames, but the lower clocked, but faster A64s were dropping ffames like crazy. P4's above 2.6Ghz with HT didn't drop any.
