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17 Nov 2007, 1:16 pm

Ew... ME? Well, FWIW I had all sorts of A/V trouble back in the day w/ ME. But, it should still be able to run flash if my PIII can run flash, so I'm guessing a better VC may clear things up for ya.



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19 Nov 2007, 2:05 am

yesplease wrote:
Ew... ME? Well, FWIW I had all sorts of A/V trouble back in the day w/ ME. But, it should still be able to run flash if my PIII can run flash, so I'm guessing a better VC may clear things up for ya.


I dug up an old 32MB Nvidia TNT2 video card from a fried computer that my friend threw out. It runs Youtube at a reasonable speed after disabling the drivers to the SiS chipset. Thanks.



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24 Nov 2007, 8:45 pm

gamefreak wrote:
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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.


Well i was able to run Youtube Full Speed on a 333Mhz Celeron System w/ 128MB Ram and a 4MB ATI Rage Card.


really? i can't on mine what is your trick?



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24 Nov 2007, 9:53 pm

I would check your drivers. Youtube really don't take much (its compressed like mad and cruddy quality anyway).


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