Running Youtube on an AMD K6-2 computer

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I am messing around w/ a computer of these specs.

475Mhz AMD K6-2
512MB PCI100 SDRAM
20 GB Western Digital HD/
7 GB Quantam Fireball
8 MB Sis 530 Video
ESS Solo Sound Chipset
Windows 98SE W/ all updates[Fresh Install]

Internet runs great but i however have trouble with Youtube. I had the same problem with a 1Ghz Celeron w/ 256MB Memory running Win XP Home. Both motherboards are developed by SiS. Youtube runs on both but it is really jumpy and the audio sucks. [I tried installing an ealier version of Flash Player but still no luck.]

Quote- Please Don`t tell me to buy a new computer. I have also tried running Youtube on a more Supior 16MB NvIDIA TnT 2 Video Card. [No Luck.] I am also sure a 333Mhz Celeron w/ 256MB Memory can`t outbeat this computer when it comes to Youtube.

Something you neglected to mention, which might be a factor:

Are you using a 300 baud modem, gigabit ethernet, or somewhere in between?

And, what, a standard speed DSL connection? Cable? Other?

OK, then I suppose my best guess for a culprit (aside from a less then speedy CPU) would be:

8 MB Sis 530 Video

That is seriously old and slow, particularly for a game freak.

What bus design is it? AGP? If so, I have some surplus cards laying around...

I got the Problem on most Youtube Videos solved by updating my Bios and installing Win ME instead of 98SE. Some of the older youtube videos [Designed for earlier versions of Flash Player.]
however still don`t run that well. My Sound Card is a Sound Blaster
PCI128 [Upgraded from the crappy onboard ESS sound.] With all the proper updates. I have also updated my video card drivers.

Right click the youtube window and set it to low quality.

You might also put in a pci network card, on board network devices may be slowing you down.

Also moving your virtual memory from your main hard drive to the 7gb hard drive and putting it on the secondary
ide bus.


One other suggestion...Ubuntu linux.

The ubuntu takes 700mhz system,

Xubuntu takes 500mhz and 192 memory so 475 with 512mb of memory might work fairly well.
The nice thing about xubuntu is that you can run it off the cd to "test drive it" before you install.

If you have a friend with a cd burner they can burn you a copy.

http://xubuntu.org/

i don't think that cpu can handle youtube video.

Youtube video utlizes the ".flv" format which is quite taxing on a cpu
since the file size is small it''lll take a bit of horse power to decode the information, and to make things worse the AMD k-6 series doesn't have a good floating point in comparison to the duron's and athlons.

When i watch youtube video on an 800mhz pentium 3 my cpu usage jumps up to 70%

The 8mb sis video card in that system won't do wanders either you could always upgrade that card.

The Sis chipset isn't known to perform that well especially older versions The modern chipsets are not to bad though.

But i think you'll benefit more if you upgrade that cpu. If your board is a socket 7 the highest your motherboard would take would be 600mhz. I think.

just my opinion

But i would do is just buy a newer system at least a pentium 4 or equivalent
there dirt cheap now days.