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hey dream tooks a lot of cpu usage. it takes 60% on my pentium 4 506 2.66ghz
cpu.
my pc is vista capable . but cant understand this problem. my graphice
adapter is ATI X200 series 256mb. all other thinks run awesome like aero,
media center etc. will some budy suggest me what to do?
 
Your card is pretty much the bottom of the line as far as 3d capable cards
go with Areo. I have exactly the same card in my laptop, and while it's
acceptable (for a lappy) I wouldn't have one in my desktop.
Aero is probably taxing your card to the point where it offloads the rest of
the 3d decoding operations to the CPU and you are then seeing the high cpu
load.
The amount of memory on a card has a point of diminishing returns, with a
card like the x200 and the x300, 256 megs is just a waste. it can't process
fast enough to use that amount of memory effectivly. Without going into
great detail about pixel piplines and shaders, just suffice it to say that
your card is barely suitable.
In Geforce terms, your card is about equal to a geforce fx 5200
 
I am looking to upgrade my geforce 5200 principally for video editing
purposes. Could you make a suggestion please?
 
Video editing is a CPU intensive task, not a GPU intensive task.
So, the answer to your question is simple, whichever card you are happy
with, and can afford.
I'd personally point you to an nVidia based solution. In particular, the
8800 gts 320 meg if you have a pci-e slot.
you don't need the rendering capabilities, but with Vista and directx 10
and aero, all the rendering is off loaded to the DX10 capable card leaving
the CPU to focus on whatever tasked assigned to it.
Don't confuse rendering with editing, they are two totally seperate
functions.
 
Elven <[email protected]>'s wild thoughts were
released on Wed, 7 Mar 2007 04:01:19 -0800 bearing the
following fruit:
hey dream tooks a lot of cpu usage. it takes 60% on my pentium 4 506 2.66ghz
cpu.
my pc is vista capable . but cant understand this problem. my graphice
adapter is ATI X200 series 256mb. all other thinks run awesome like aero,
media center etc. will some budy suggest me what to do?
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I have the same issue but I've yet to see it cause any
problems. I've not seen any slowdown in the use of my PC.
 
Thanks to C.Skaggs.
As you can see I'm no computer-geek. All considered (like cost etc) would
you think I have anything to gain by going your suggested route?
 
Personally, I wouldn't upgrade a box with AGP, only pci-express. AGP is
dead.
So if you have a pci-e slot, by all means, upgrade. if you don't have a
pci-e slot, it's time for a new computer.
Things to consider; dual core CPU's handles video processing much better
than single core CPU's. Pick a brand, the dual core offerings from both AMD
and Intel are a vast improvement over the old single core's for almost
everything.
PCI-E is twice as fast as AGP for graphics. PCI-E cards are also cheaper
than AGP cards.
 
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