I'm dealing with an ET1352-01 eMachine with an AMD Athlon II 160u processor (currently only 1 core unlocked). The machine runs Windows 7 x64, with 2 GB of DDR3 RAM and a Western Digital 5000AAKS HDD.
Having tested with numerous desktops and laptops, the best setup I've found is to install CCCP (latest) for the codecs and playing the videos with smplayer (using mplayer2).
I'm trying to get 1080Hi10P video to run smoothly on this machine, but it lags regularly when playing these intensive files. Since this is such an obviously underspec'd machine, I don't really know where to begin trying to optimize it. The cheapest AND SIMPLEST method is always appreciated. Purely software fixes are optimal.
In case using a better hard drive fixes my problem, I could install a SSD, but I'm unsure if the motherboard (a generic ASUS MA061L-D3 uATX) supports SATA 6.0 GB/s. Anything that can confirm or deny it will be greatly appreciated.
Having tested with numerous desktops and laptops, the best setup I've found is to install CCCP (latest) for the codecs and playing the videos with smplayer (using mplayer2).
I'm trying to get 1080Hi10P video to run smoothly on this machine, but it lags regularly when playing these intensive files. Since this is such an obviously underspec'd machine, I don't really know where to begin trying to optimize it. The cheapest AND SIMPLEST method is always appreciated. Purely software fixes are optimal.
In case using a better hard drive fixes my problem, I could install a SSD, but I'm unsure if the motherboard (a generic ASUS MA061L-D3 uATX) supports SATA 6.0 GB/s. Anything that can confirm or deny it will be greatly appreciated.