upgrading question

[Vulcan]

motherboard intel d850mv
pentium 1.6
512 rdram
geforce 4 mx

i wanna upgrade to geforce6600..

will i be able to play games at high quality at good speed ??...

and even more important for me ...will i be able to play HDTV movies on my pc with smooth playback ??

with my current configuration it stutters like hell..

[TripleRLtd]

What stutters Vulcan, the movies or games?

[Vulcan]

movies (HDTV)...

[confus-ed]

movies (HDTV)...

I'd have thought what you've got could do it .. certainly at 720p anyway.

What sound card do we have ? hdtv uses ac-3 audio (digital dolby surround sound) & that's quite a 'muncher' of cpu cycles, so if its onboard, you might find just as much improvement buying a $15 s/c to get that 'bit better'.

Have you been through codecs & all that stuff ?

[Vulcan]

i've been through the codecs...
as for 5.1 audio..i also thought that was the problem.
i found a clip in 720p in wma stereo...still stutters - much les but still ..
so it's not the audio..

[Vulcan]

there are many manufacturers for the 6600gt..

is this one recommended ?..

http://www.palit.com.tw/en/products/nv_vga.html

here it seems to be cheaper than others...

[confus-ed]

..i found a clip in 720p in wma stereo...still stutters - much les but still ..

I think a 'good' test is just to turn off your sound device in device manager & then try it - if you get no stutter then your s/c is the culprit 'to at least a certain extent' (both s/c & video performance need to be 'going good' to get optimal performance, as well as any memory handling - but I'd have assumed Rambus was fast enough)

But I've never heard of 'palit' however chipsets are licensed now by both ATI & Nvidia for 'sub production' nowadays, so I guess there's an ever growing army of producers, maybe try them ? .. but watch out for warranty & RMA policy ;)

[Vulcan]

what's rma policy?

[Vulcan]

well i disabled the soundblaster live! value and there was an improvement...

what does it mean ??...

the soundcard is to blame ??

upgrading to a better video card will not solve this problem ?