sort of...

and the best thing is, just push the Turbo button on ur chasis, and there u go, CPU in Turbo mode... no BIOS, no tweaking, no trial and error...

wonders y no such function on the CPU now...

after a while, i left the TURBO ON all the time

100mhz to 133mhz

lol and i stil have that machine, with 1.3GB hard disk with it

it was legendary Windows 98

i think the few frames lag of ur 720p viewing is cause by ur GC. i'm on p4 2.8e @stock pair with x1950pro didn't have frame lag issue. the only down side is when i'm on 720p viewing, i need to disable all unwanted program & processes to make 720p running smoother. if not, the cpu usage can easily go as high as 95%+

I bought when Pentium D was newly launched to the market. Think of it as people now getting Core i7 or Core 2 Duo when it was first launched. P4 can watch 720p movies fine without any lag as it uses the CPU. What I am talking is that use of GPU , Graphics card that has AVIVO HD or PureVideo 2 and above can be used to offload calculations to the GPU , hence the CPU can remain idle and you can do other task.

You need a good graphics card for it. At least the latest low-end graphics card would do the trick anyway

Yeah , its something like that. Think of it as automatic oc'ing. You enable it when you need the extra performance. Hit the turbo button (there is a button for it) and voila you get a bit of faster speed. Turn it off when you're not using it to run "demanding" applications. When I say demanding i meant games such as Quake back then , it was fun

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It is P35-DS3R! Lol.. This mobo cames with on board RAID. Anyways, it still on Nicolasteoh hand and waiting for its return.

Not sure with the GC although,sees like good gpu is helping in HD movies. My CPU also easily use up to 95% of the resources during the complex scenes.

Thanks for sharing the Turbo mode feature. Guess to play HD movies smoothly,GPU is playing an important role here. Low end like 8600GT is able to do the job easily i guess.

Seems like > 2 months already your mobo went for RMA. What fails you on the mobo?

i think its the player u use when playing 720P movies as well

its about CPU , yes , but the player & codecs play an important role

mkv files or h264 files have their prefered player that reduces lag, or rather no lag at all on our machines

Yea. since now all the 720p in mkv encoded h264, mind sharing which codec & player is the best suit for our p4?(less cpu usage) currenty using k-lite full pack & divx.

The best codec for encoding HD will be coreAVC thou. Highly recommended! But ofcause it ain't free.. But it always a way to get it for F*EE.

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PC on overnight for torrenting and got visited & kissed by Zues. Haha.. Yea. Near 2 months already. Guess will arriving kch by next week or a week before xmas. Well.. ScanArt distri always slow in RMA.

i think u can try a pack called CCCP (community codec sth pack)...

it's free...

CoerAVC is the way to go

The codec plays a bigger role than the player

and another thing will be your GPU, get a better GPU and they will not be much of a lag or high CPU usage when playing HD h264 files. Due to GPU architecture + VRAM (higher the better, minimum 128MB at least for me)

Because I did comparison b4 3.4Ghz P4 with a 64MB GF4 MX440 and same CPU speed with 128MB 5900XT, CPU usage down by half

Seems like Core AVC is the best choice among codecs. I might try out and see cause i'm using klite codec.

if your PC is a dual core, you don't need CoreAVC anymore, ffdshow's h264 decoder can do the job already

im stuck with 720i (i think..)..coz i has p4 1.6ghz. any advantages if im using such as ati radeon 2600 (in playing HD movie)..coz now im just using nvidia 6200.

im using klite, so what do i do with it if i put in core AVC?

if u are decoding it with ffdshow and you installed CoreAVC
U need to disable the H264 decoding in ffdshow, then only CoreAVC will take place

This post has been edited by shinjite: Dec 2 2008, 07:18 PM

i can't find any "disable" k-lite h264. i can only c "disable" h264/AVC decoder (CoreAVC)

but after installed CoreAVC, the cpu usage no longer as high as 90%+ now it stay at 50-60% this CoreAVC really can reduce cpu usage.

thx for sharing

looks like better reviews regarding coreAVC

i will give it a try because my movies tend to lag out of sync, especially audio

CoreAVC can lessen the load on the processor itself

Your X800 PRO have Avivo right? You also can se it to decode H264 videos

Guys,just went to PC fair,8GB flash drive only RM48. Corsair DDR1 400 1GB is RM97.