| Video card? [message #67920] |
Mon, 08 May 2006 22:26  |
Chris Lang
Messages: 91
Registered: March 2007
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I posted a while back about a mysterious and constant CPU
load of about 60%. I have tried everything, and yet it
is still there.
One of you suggested changing out my video card. I currently
have an NVIDIA RIVA TNT2. Any suggestions?
I just want it to play nice with Paris, and solve my CPU load
problem. I may have some video soundtrack work in the future,
so that is a consideration, but not crucial.
Thanks so much!
Chris
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| Re: Video card? [message #67922 is a reply to message #67920] |
Mon, 08 May 2006 22:59  |
Aaron Allen
Messages: 1988
Registered: May 2008
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www.txmicro.com is a good place to watch, I've recently found. They carry
older cards, IE ones that are more of the Paris era motherboards. I just
ordered my second video card from them in 2 weeks trying to up my video RAM,
once I get time to stuff 'em in there, I'll post.
Riva is usually a pretty friendly chip though, so I'm not sure why you'd
have troubles with it. What chipset on the mobo you have?
On the other hand, I think I gave like $33 total for this latest vidcard
order.. it's a cheap 'try it dude' fix.
(4F-4214)64MB nVidia GeForce3 Ti 200 8x AGP 1 27.00
when I'm done, I am looking at 4x the video RAM that I have now. Total cost
is some time and about $60-$70. That doesn't suck.
AA
"Chris Lang" <yo@yo.yo> wrote in message news:4460280a$1@linux...
>
> I posted a while back about a mysterious and constant CPU
> load of about 60%. I have tried everything, and yet it
> is still there.
>
> One of you suggested changing out my video card. I currently
> have an NVIDIA RIVA TNT2. Any suggestions?
>
> I just want it to play nice with Paris, and solve my CPU load
> problem. I may have some video soundtrack work in the future,
> so that is a consideration, but not crucial.
>
> Thanks so much!
>
> Chris
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| Re: Video card? [message #67923 is a reply to message #67920] |
Mon, 08 May 2006 23:04 |
Tom Bruhl
Messages: 1368
Registered: June 2007
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Chris,
Try any video card you can lay your hands on just
to see if the CPU load changes. What you describe sounds
like driver or hardware problems. Are you using the best
drivers (not necessarily most current) for the video card?
I had to return a nVidia card because it didn't play nice
with Paris. I would never recommend them for Paris users
although some have had great success with them.=20
=20
Any other audio cards in the computer? That can be
a problem with EDS cards too. If the video card swap doesn't help=20
your problem I'd look at Windows tweaks. Maybe start with the=20
graphics stuff.
Make sure no IRQs are sharing (you probably have done this)
and disable all unused USB/printer ports, onboard sound
anything peripheral that's unneeded. No clock on desktop,
no automatic updates blah, blah, blah. =20
Good luck!
Tom
"Chris Lang" <yo@yo.yo> wrote in message news:4460280a$1@linux...
I posted a while back about a mysterious and constant CPU
load of about 60%. I have tried everything, and yet it
is still there.
One of you suggested changing out my video card. I currently
have an NVIDIA RIVA TNT2. Any suggestions?
I just want it to play nice with Paris, and solve my CPU load
problem. I may have some video soundtrack work in the future,
so that is a consideration, but not crucial.
Thanks so much!
Chris
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<DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>I had to return a nVidia card because =
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<DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>with Paris. I would never =
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Paris users</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>Make sure no IRQs are sharing (you =
probably have=20
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ports, onboard=20
sound</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>no automatic updates blah, blah, =
blah. =20
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<DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>Good luck!</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>Tom</FONT></DIV>
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