good ram advice to BURN an old slot A Athlon TB

[Jose]

Hi. Be amazed!

Just runned Quick Bench...

Sequential Speed: Read- 39.2 MB/s
        Write- 33.8 MB/s
...
...
Average CPU- 2%  !!!!!!!

The average CPu was a bit higher when I first launched the program (>10%), lowering right after if I kept idle, but I think that was due to other task having just been terminated. If I kept idle and stoped the test in the middle and restarted again the CPU load would be 2% in the very beginning.

Now what it could be? The DVDROm drive, it's drivers, or the cable...?

[Jose]

BTW, [stupid joke]... seems like I won't need an April fix on this system after all :roll:

I'll check the cable next...

[Jose]

Just a thought before I go out and get an 80 wire cable, even if this cable is not appropriate or it's f**ked up, that wouldn't make CPU load go higher or would it ?

[Jose]

Ok, I'll get a new cable tomorrow and try it out.

Haven't tried a new Gfx card yet, got outbid for a Radeon 9700 right in the end.

"Lacking YUV overlays explains the problems you're having as DIB DRAW incl. conversion is a pain in the a** for the CPU.
The Riva128 should be able to do YUV overlays, but I'm not 100% sure. Maybe I'll check it in a couple of days as we're just revamping an old RC440BX system, it's got a Riva onboard.
What drivers are you using? DirectX in good shape?"

It's supposed to, but didn't pass the PowerDVD tests. I tried getting the more recent drivers I could get from nVidia's site but they seemed to be the same ones on Win2K CD. DirectX 9.x here!