Jerry Geis spake the following on 5/18/2007 12:28 PM: > Hi All, > > I had a box centos5 AMD64 X2 4200+, Asus motherboard, Nvidia 7100 video > card, 512M, > when playing a video at 1080p it did well but had a couple times went > out of sync. > > So amd dropped its price and I got a 5200+, gigabyte motherboard, Nvidia > 7100 video card, 512M. > This FASTER system is actually slower. The video is WAY behind on sync. > > I have looked at the X config they are the same. > I have the same mplayer version > I have the same centos 5 version > The CPU usage is actuall below 60. > I ran "cpuspeed -C &" on both boxes > > /proc/cpuinfo on both boxes report the correct values. > 4200+, 512cache, clocked at 2200 > 5200+ 1024 cache, clocked at 2600 > > What can be causing the faster machine to SUCK so bad at playing the > video back? > THanks, > > Jerry It could be the interaction between processor, memory, bios (motherboard), chipset, and a host of other things. The best test would be only changing ONE component at a time. Are both chips socket AM2? If so, try the 5200+ in the Asus board, or the 4200+ in the Gigabyte board. Are both boards using a pair of ram sticks in the proper slots to get memory interleaving properly? There are so many variables to look at. -- MailScanner is like deodorant... You hope everybody uses it, and you notice quickly if they don't!!!!