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<blockquote data-quote="tangmonster" data-source="post: 157689" data-attributes="member: 40621"><p>It's a waste to buy a expensive screencard for beter video playback. A more expensive screencard will make menu eyecandy be faster but video playback is all about cpu , memory , codec's and VERY little graphics card.</p><p></p><p>Video has got nothing to do with vertex shaders and pixel pipelines and all that 3d graphic stuff. </p><p></p><p>I have a 2.4Ghz socket 462 celeron with 512mb ram and a barely dx9 capable fx5200.</p><p></p><p>All compression movies plays fine, dvd's gave jumping problems until I got nvidia pureview codec.</p><p></p><p>If your browsing is too slow search on the forums on how to create a ramdisk and save database files on there for lightning fast browsing.</p><p></p><p>If your GUI is slow , use a lower GPU intensive skin like blackmyst.</p><p></p><p>graphics card = nvidia anything fx5200 and up (mx440 is not dx 9 capable)</p><p>ati anything above 9250 although i once had it installed on a system with that card and it seemed to be ok with blackmyst skin.</p><p></p><p></p><p>an ATI 9550 screen card is a underclocked 9600 gpu.</p><p></p><p>9550 = cpu 250mhz</p><p> ram 200mhz</p><p></p><p>with a simple extra very small fan you can safely put the cpu up to 400 to 450 mhz</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="tangmonster, post: 157689, member: 40621"] It's a waste to buy a expensive screencard for beter video playback. A more expensive screencard will make menu eyecandy be faster but video playback is all about cpu , memory , codec's and VERY little graphics card. Video has got nothing to do with vertex shaders and pixel pipelines and all that 3d graphic stuff. I have a 2.4Ghz socket 462 celeron with 512mb ram and a barely dx9 capable fx5200. All compression movies plays fine, dvd's gave jumping problems until I got nvidia pureview codec. If your browsing is too slow search on the forums on how to create a ramdisk and save database files on there for lightning fast browsing. If your GUI is slow , use a lower GPU intensive skin like blackmyst. graphics card = nvidia anything fx5200 and up (mx440 is not dx 9 capable) ati anything above 9250 although i once had it installed on a system with that card and it seemed to be ok with blackmyst skin. an ATI 9550 screen card is a underclocked 9600 gpu. 9550 = cpu 250mhz ram 200mhz with a simple extra very small fan you can safely put the cpu up to 400 to 450 mhz [/QUOTE]
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