Flash Video -- help!

[William Park]

I'm using binary driver from nvidia.com.  I'm told that my GeForce 8500GT may be 
suspect, so I'll upgrade to GeForce GTS450 and see.  Anything more will require 
new power supply, motherboard, and ram, which I want to reserve for SandyBridge.
-- 
William


>
>From: Ijaaz A. Ullah <ijaaz-UwkSZrAjFfdkDLQDXwjzI9BPR1lH4CV8 at public.gmane.org>
>To: tlug-lxSQFCZeNF4 at public.gmane.org
>Sent: Tue, February 8, 2011 7:59:06 AM
>Subject: Re: [TLUG]: Flash Video -- help!
>
>
>Are you using the NV or nvidia drivers?  I find that the stock NV driver isn't 
>very good.  Use the one from nvidia.com or if you are on fedora or CentOS, grab 
>it from atrpms.
>On Feb 7, 2011 3:31 PM, "William Park" <opengeometry-FFYn/CNdgSA at public.gmane.org> wrote:
>> To those who are watching Flash Video without any problem, I'd appreciate some 
>
>> insights and pointers!
>> 
>> My problem:
>> 
>>         Flash Video is slightly choppy at full screen.  My monitor is 
>>1600x1200, 
>>
>> so I guess the  full screen video is 1600x900.
>> 
>> What I have:
>> 
>>         - Athlon II X2 260 (dual-core, 3.2GHz, 2MB)
>>         - nVidia GeForce 8500
>>         - Firefox 4 (beta)
>>         - Adobe Flash Player 64-bit "square" preview version
>>         - kernel 2.6.37 (x86_64, SMP, preemptive)
>> 
>> What I want:
>> 
>>         Smooth Flash Video at full screen.
>> 
>> What should I do?
>> 
>>         1. Should I upgrade the video card to GeForce 430 ?  I borrowed GeForce 
>>
>> 250, and did see some improvement but not that much.  GeForce 430 is advertised 
>>
>> to be better at "multimedia" things.
>> 
>>         2. Should I get a whole new computer?  Eg. i7-870 quad-core which goes 
>
>> up to 3.6GHz, assuming Turbo Boost works.  My current computer is already 
>>3.2GHz 
>>
>> dual-core, so I don't think similar i3/i5 will bring a substantial speedup. 
>> Then, again, may be they might.  I don't know.
>> 
>> Any advice will be appreciated.
>> -- 
>> William
>> 
>> 
>> 
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