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flash player hoses my celeron

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dr.kevin

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my cheapy pinto laptop is for web surfing.
it has a 2.4ghz celeron, the old kind. intel integrated graphics. 512mb ram.

when i watch tv episodes online, like at nbc.com and such, their flash movie episodes hose my cpu 100% and run choppy as hell.

wtf? a 2.4ghz celeron can't even handle flash video?
how do i make the videos play smoothly?

my desktop pc has no problem playing anything.
 
i bet something else is holding it back - not the celeron

is it thermal throttling?
did you try to eliminate as many unwanted/unnessesary programs from running at the same time as the object you are trying to play?
do you have the latest version of flash installed?
did you clear the flash player cache?
what internet connection do you have? what do you pull on a speedtest?
etc etc

the fact it pegs 100% doesnt supprise me too much, but it should still play smooth...something is up

i play flash just fine on my p3 600 with 256mb ram and winxp pro junk computer...so i know something isnt right here
 
not all flash hoses my cpu. the simple flash doesn't.
very busy flash advertisements will stress the cpu a bit.

http://www.nbc.com/Video/rewind/full_episodes/heroes.shtml

try watching the eps, and see if your cpu doesn't get hosed.

for me, the video is choppy as hell because the cpu is getting hosed.

out of curiosity, i tried playing those flash videos on my P3 500 with voodoo3 16mb, and it was even worse.

the internet connection is not the issue. the flash vids play fine on my 3000+ box, with only 50% cpu usage.
 
I have a feeling its page thrashing causing the choppiness, its not because of the celeron a northwood celeron at 2.4ghz is PLENTY fast to run any flash video. I'd be suprised if there isnt a memory leak in another program, spyware, etc.
 
i've solved my problem. turns out that nbc put a lot of stupid flash banners on their page.

the northwood celeron is teh suck and can't handle a lot of flash on a single webpage.

i installed flashblock extension for firefox, and disabled all the flash shit except for the flash video.

the video is no longer choppy.
 
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