My athlon xp 2400 chokes hard on HD, my AMD64 3200's never exceed about 40% on any content unless something is wrong. All have 1 gig of ram.<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 3/27/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">
Mitch Gore</b> <<a href="mailto:mitchell.gore@gmail.com">mitchell.gore@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
i would go for CPU. I used to use a Athlon 1800+ @ 1.5ghz and it just barely played hd. I upgraded to a P4 3.4Ghz and used the same old memory and it works GREAT now.<br><br>michell<div><span class="e" id="q_11195b5c2928606a_1">
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On 3/27/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Bill Omer</b> <<a href="mailto:bill.omer@gmail.com" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">bill.omer@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
On 3/27/07, William Munson <<a href="mailto:william_munson@bellsouth.net" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">william_munson@bellsouth.net</a>> wrote:<br>> I currently have a athlonXP 2200+ with 512 meg of 133MHz ram. I am
<br>> having skipping problems on some HD channels, others play fine. My cpu
<br>> usage runs 80-100% on the problem channels. My question is this: Which<br>> is going to give me the most improvement? Going to 266MHz ram and maybe<br>> more ram or going to a faster processor? Say a 2800+ or 3300+? I can
<br>> reconfigure the board for either option. Yes, I understand that<br>> upgrading both will be the best but the budget says no to that option...<br>><br>> Yours thoughts?<br><br><br><br>My old shuttle (my first frontend) was (I believe) an AMD 2200+. Does
<br>it clock at 1.8GHz? If so, i'm kind of surprised you can play HD<br>content at all.<br><br>I jumped up to a 3300+ and I'm able to play HD content just fine, 720p<br>and 1080i, and with only 512MB of ram. So I would suggest upgrading
<br>your CPU<br><br>Just my $0.02<br><br>-Bill<br>_______________________________________________<br>mythtv-users mailing list<br><a href="mailto:mythtv-users@mythtv.org" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">
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