FalseChristian
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I know a guy who's running a cruddy I7 920 at 4.2GHz with 6GB of G. Skill Ripjaws DDR3-1600 and 2 GTX 480's in SLI. He only has 6TB of storage. What a piece of shit!
I know a guy who's running a cruddy I7 920 at 4.2GHz with 6GB of G. Skill Ripjaws DDR3-1600 and 2 GTX 480's in SLI. He only has 6TB of storage. What a piece of shit!
It is specifically this laptop:
Inspiron 1525, Intel Pentium Dual Core T2390 (1.86GHz 533Mhz, 1M L2 Cache)
Addies: 3GB, DDR2, 667MHz 2 Dimm
15.4 inch Wide Screen WXGA+ LCD
Intel Graphics Media Accelerator X3100
Microsoft Windows Vista SP1 Home Basic
IE8
Latest "DELL" drivers installed, etc.
I can watch youtube videos up to 480 just fine. 720HD and it will stutter/skip frames a couple times per second. (it is not a streaming issue either, plenty of buffer and it does it even when replaying an already downloaded stream)
I "upgraded" to this lappy from a DELL X200 that was a 12" w/800MHz P3. TBH if it weren't for the fact I got a much larger screen and the price was $550 for the Insp1525 versus $2k for the X200 I would have felt like I had just made a side-grade.
My laptop computing experience was not dramatically improved. I only use it for web browsing and some light mathematica stuff.
But it does help me feel like my Q6600 @ 2.4GHz (stock!) main rig is plenty fast :biggrin:
Ah, the Intel video decelerator.
Have you tried disabling "hardware acceleration" in the video driver?
It seems to me that you should be able to play 720p pretty smoothly.
It is specifically this laptop:
Inspiron 1525, Intel Pentium Dual Core T2390 (1.86GHz 533Mhz, 1M L2 Cache)
Addies: 3GB, DDR2, 667MHz 2 Dimm
15.4 inch Wide Screen WXGA+ LCD
Intel Graphics Media Accelerator X3100
Microsoft Windows Vista SP1 Home Basic
IE8
you're laptop should be able to do 720p. my tablet has a 1.2ghz ULV c2d and it handles 720p perfectly fine.
I had a dual P.Pro (so 200MHz), 256 MB RAM, and Matrox Millenium I up to 2005. W2K and Linux. It was just fine, "multi-core" and all.Pentium II w/MMX
128.0MB Ram
Win98
Actually does basic forum/internet stuff ok. Just no big flash and forget YouTube!
Yes, currently shopping for a new box. I'd at least like to get up to 2005.
Reallly? How does a 1.8GHz Core 2 stutter on Youtube HD? The CPU should be powerful enough just to handle it by itself. On my 2.4GHz Core 2 it was using 20% CPU running 1080p Youtube.
The culvs are actually much more faster than the core duos, even while only clocked at "1.2GHz".
Pentium II w/MMX
128.0MB Ram
Win98...
Jesus, that's your main box?
You have my sincerest condolences if that is a rig you use daily...
All you guys need is like 400 dollars for a major upgrade. You keep your monitor and drives and keyboar and mouse...
Mobo 70 dollar
CPU 120 dollar
RAM 90 dollar
VC 100 dollar.
save up and do it!
You know, I went from PS2 keyboard and mouse to USB only this year (and I still need the old keyb occasionally). Have you noticed the disappearance of double PS2 connectors from boards lately? (During the previous shift one at least could have used an AT-to-PS2 adapter for the good old keyboards.)All you guys need is like 400 dollars for a major upgrade. You keep your monitor and drives and keyboar and mouse...
All you guys need is like 400 dollars for a major upgrade. You keep your monitor and drives and keyboar and mouse...
Mobo 70 dollar
CPU 120 dollar
RAM 90 dollar
VC 100 dollar.
save up and do it!
All you guys need is like 400 dollars for a major upgrade. You keep your monitor and drives and keyboar and mouse...
Mobo 70 dollar
CPU 120 dollar
RAM 90 dollar
VC 100 dollar.
save up and do it!
The culvs are actually much more faster than the core duos, even while only clocked at "1.2GHz".