gate1975mlm
Premium
join:2001-09-30
Philadelphia, PA
1 edit | AMD Athlon 64 3700+ Single Core Need more power?
Right now I have a AMD Athlon 64 3700+ Single Core 939 chip.
And the 1080P Quicktime trailers play choppy in the Quicktime player. How much more powerful CPU would I need to play them at the full 24 frames with no slow down or anything?
Would an Athlon X2 4200+ be any better? |
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CylonRed
Premium,MVM
join:2000-07-06
Bloom County
 ·Speakeasy
| I have never found a CPU to play Quicktime without stuttering - no matter what CPU I have ever had (every 3-5 years I rebuild my PC with a upper level CPU).
My guess it would be a setting that causes this in Quicktime or the OS and not the CPU, as mine can run WMP or Real Player just fine... |
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gate1975mlm
Premium
join:2001-09-30
Philadelphia, PA
2 edits | Not really true I am able to play every Quicktime file upto 720P perfect just not 1080P. |
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Smoove910
Premium
join:2005-08-01
Nampa, ID
| Ever think it might be your videocard as opposed to the CPU? If you have a crappy videocard, you will probably have crappy framerates, regardless of what you are doing (i.e. quicktime, games, winamp, etc...).
Could you post the rest of your system specs? It could also be a ram limitation too, how much ram do you have? |
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gate1975mlm
Premium
join:2001-09-30
Philadelphia, PA
1 edit | my video card is a geforce 6600.
And I have 2gb of ram. |
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elios
join:2005-11-15
Springfield, MO | reply to gate1975mlm
hmm some thing else is wrong you should play 1080 clips just fine with that setup...
checked for spyware/virus lately? |
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gate1975mlm
Premium
join:2001-09-30
Philadelphia, PA
| said by elios  :hmm some thing else is wrong you should play 1080 clips just fine with that setup... checked for spyware/virus lately? Yep everyday. |
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elios
join:2005-11-15
Springfield, MO
1 edit | reply to gate1975mlm
EDIT
what drivers are you using on your 6600GT?
can you link me to the clip your trying to play
might as well try it on my end may be just qucktime sucks at 1080 |
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Octavean
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join:2001-03-31
New York, NY | said by elios :
what drivers are you using on your 6600GT?
He said “geforce 6600”, he didn’t specify 6600GT,… |
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Vamp
5c077
Premium
join:2003-01-28
MD
 ·Verizon FIOS
| reply to gate1975mlm
Yes it may be the video card, new video cards have HD acceleration that works with MPEG4 (H.264, etc).. Which I believe is enabled with the latest drivers by ATI or Nvidia if you have a supported card.
It may just be your drivers causing it to not play correctly... Also try updating your codecs. |
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gate1975mlm
Premium
join:2001-09-30
Philadelphia, PA
| said by Vamp :Yes it may be the video card, new video cards have HD acceleration that works with MPEG4 (H.264, etc).. Which I believe is enabled with the latest drivers by ATI or Nvidia if you have a supported card. It may just be your drivers causing it to not play correctly... Also try updating your codecs. Its not the drivers I have tried lots of them. Its the CPU just me. |
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Vamp
5c077
Premium
join:2003-01-28
MD | Yes it could be the CPU, but it is a direct result of the Video Card.. New video cards have H.264 Hardware acceleration, this takes much stress off the CPU.
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dcsos
@rcn.com
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My MAC MINI at 1.66GHZ has no problem what soever, as does my HyperThreading P4 at 2.8GHZ on a SHUTTLE machine both play test clips of 1080p quality without stuttering .
Also tried 720p, which I can get on my 22" CRT more easily without messing with my default resolution of 1024x768 on both 4x3 aspected displays.
SO when I play the HI-DEF content, I have to enlarge the desktop so the material is all viewable and not hanging off the right end of the screen
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I suspect a bottleneck somewhere
SOUND CARD?
PCI BUS INTERRUPTS?
or
maybe AMD is the PROBLEM>? |
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elios
join:2005-11-15
Springfield, MO
 ·Mediacom
1 edit | reply to Vamp
said by Vamp :Yes it could be the CPU, but it is a direct result of the Video Card.. New video cards have H.264 Hardware acceleration, this takes much stress off the CPU. the 6600 can do h.264 sine the 71.xx drivers thats not it |
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elios
join:2005-11-15
Springfield, MO | reply to dcsos
AMD is not it have played 1080 stuff on a 3000+ A64 hardware is not the issue here my guess is old drivers |
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maint man
@205.241.x.x
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Try running CHKDSK on your drive, then do a defrag. Also, how much swap file do you have set up?
IF you are thinking about a better cpu, you might think about a dual core cpu. Newegg has a X2 4200+ for the 939 socket, priced at $181.
But I would first try doing some maint. and eliminate all other possibilities first. |
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smajchrz
join:2003-10-11
Chantilly, VA | reply to gate1975mlm
If this is a downloaded file, defragging the hard drive might help to some extent. I am not aware if it tries to load completely into memory first before playing. If so, this would not help at all. |
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Octavean
Premium,MVM
join:2001-03-31
New York, NY
| reply to gate1975mlm
If you are referring to downloadable quicktime 1080p trailers files, are you downloading the files fully before playing?
These are typically large files and stutter can occur during the download.
What are your system specs in full?
I have two similarly configured systems with the following:
quote:
ViewSonic N3250W 32" 16:9 8ms HD Ready LCD TV With HDMI
AMD Athlon 64 X2 4800+ (Athlon 64 X2 3800+ on the other)
1GB TwinMOS Speed Premium PC3200 RAM
ASUS A8N-SLI Deluxe
16 Pipe Mod Sapphire X800GTO2 @ X850XT PE Speed (X800XL on the other)
ATI HDTV Wonder
Sapphire T550P Tuner
Maddog BTX/ATX 500W PSU
Modified Castek CK-1018-1A Tower Case
Vista Beta 2 (MCE 2K5 SP-2 RU2 on the other)
XBox 360 MCE Extender
No stutter on this end with either system on 1080p quicktime as long as it has been downloaded to the HDD first.
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NOCMan
Verizon Fios User
Premium
join:2004-09-30
Flower Mound, TX | reply to gate1975mlm
What's your CPU usage when playing it. |
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Lysis
join:2005-03-30
Brooklyn, NY
| reply to gate1975mlm
my 17" monitor is @ 1152x864 and i clicked a quicktime 1080p trailer and it is much larger than my screen. Isn't 1080p for like 40+ inch tv's? What are you watching 1080p on?
Here are the system requirements:
»www.apple.com/quicktime/guide/hd···ons.html
"For 1920x1080 (1080p) video at 24 frames per second
3.0 Ghz Intel Pentium D (dual-core) or faster processor
At least 1GB of RAM
64MB or greater video card
Windows 2000 or XP "
ram and video card probably not the problem
hidef playback very cpu intensive
3700+ a pretty fast processor though, shame to upgrade when you already have a fast processor because you spend a lot and only can get so much faster.
Maybe dual cores are good for video playback though? |
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