From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1P8Q3E-0006vu-2D for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 20 Oct 2010 04:13:20 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id ACA76E0824; Wed, 20 Oct 2010 04:12:37 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-gy0-f181.google.com (mail-gy0-f181.google.com [209.85.160.181]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8F8E8E0824 for ; Wed, 20 Oct 2010 04:12:37 +0000 (UTC) Received: by gyg8 with SMTP id 8so2985998gyg.40 for ; Tue, 19 Oct 2010 21:12:37 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from :user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references:in-reply-to :content-type; bh=chIMSH1FH6k5zLUSTInMweZlghQLgIAIuk1wZjjLmTo=; b=Ca25ZWfQGvxu1MFPYHuhGrhn4Ww4zn5PuJLGXYS1M8VBfPVHVWqX51hboSv6YSFX0S PlPh1pRwcn80mGB8ZJnL8NSfbjgmZdawr6YXH76cqehkaEZGKGDO0Lx3iwvvN87nMKFG 82KXrYcKAMo2HRw2xCDZyn/ro6Dgv2doT+i3M= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references :in-reply-to:content-type; b=RHpn5wD/1y9xfvqA3vOgbCz5j21Tdq25QIrIrJWdFwvtmwNvY0Jv490HjiK+LaiZ0y Tv87voOf3Ced5szDReKgp+pfjM/2ql86ljto38UM0OXgD1gHKpKFFUsy7HZlXAjULGe2 XEfnrC+RfevQgel4wx4gacty3Hri/GynxIejc= Received: by 10.101.67.8 with SMTP id u8mr4818178ank.40.1287547956901; Tue, 19 Oct 2010 21:12:36 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [192.168.1.2] (adsl-95-109-148.jan.bellsouth.net [98.95.109.148]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id g6sm24882025anh.31.2010.10.19.21.12.34 (version=SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Tue, 19 Oct 2010 21:12:35 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4CBE6C31.9050607@gmail.com> Date: Tue, 19 Oct 2010 23:12:33 -0500 From: Dale User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.1.13) Gecko/20101006 Gentoo/2.0.8-r1 SeaMonkey/2.0.8 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Upgrading from FX-5200 to a GeForce 6200 512MB References: <4CBD4C85.2010500@gmail.com> <4CBDFF4F.3000907@gmail.com> <4CBE33B6.8020405@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="------------050408060104010009010906" X-Archives-Salt: dc475fcc-e8c2-469e-8a23-1569401314f4 X-Archives-Hash: 1be6b6cc864cf2514604ba9408b394dc This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --------------050408060104010009010906 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Adam Carter wrote: > > Nice link. I didn't even think of looking on that site. I guess > one good thing to go by is the processing power and memory. After > all, that's what makes it all work faster. Looks like I'm still > getting a pretty old card but I don't play any hard core games or > anything. Playing videos is about as much load as the card will > see with me. I do play Kpatience tho. Love my card games. > > > I would have thought you would have no problems at all with your > current system. IIRC I had no problem with full screen SD video using > mplayer on a Athlon 2200 with a crappy integrated 440MX video... > what's the CPU utilization when you're playing the full screen video? > > I'm just thinking changing the card might not make any difference. The CPU is usually at about 40 or 50% or so. Sometimes it goes higher but I can usually watch a video while emerge is running as far as CPU time goes, although emerge takes longer that way. I'm wondering if the card may be getting hot and slowing down because of that? i replaced the heat sink a good while back and I got more than enough cooling on the case. The heat sink has a fan and maybe it is not turning or something. I did blow out the dust a while back and I do have filters over the intakes to help some. Dale :-) :-) --------------050408060104010009010906 Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Adam Carter wrote:

Nice link.  I didn't even think of looking on that site.  I guess one good thing to go by is the processing power and memory.  After all, that's what makes it all work faster.  Looks like I'm still getting a pretty old card but I don't play any hard core games or anything.  Playing videos is about as much load as the card will see with me.  I do play Kpatience tho.  Love my card games. 


I would have thought you would have no problems at all with your current system. IIRC I had no problem with full screen SD video using mplayer on a Athlon 2200 with a crappy integrated 440MX video... what's the CPU utilization when you're playing the full screen video?

I'm just thinking changing the card might not make any difference.

The CPU is usually at about 40 or 50% or so.  Sometimes it goes higher but I can usually watch a video while emerge is running as far as CPU time goes, although emerge takes longer that way. 

I'm wondering if the card may be getting hot and slowing down because of that?  i replaced the heat sink a good while back and I got more than enough cooling on the case.  The heat sink has a fan and maybe it is not turning or something.  I did blow out the dust a while back and I do have filters over the intakes to help some.

Dale

:-)  :-) 
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