Planning to buy a computer? Have you thought about what chip you will be running on. The days of everything Intel are over. Well now their is another choice “Amd” get into enough forums and you will see that this is the preferred chip of many power users. The main reason for this is that at nearly equall speeds Amd chips can consume upto 20% less power than their intel equals and sometimes providing better performance too. So for some of us who have our machines running for long hours that is definately a great incentive to move over, and even big companies have realised this and are quickly moving over, even dell which did not have AMD chips in it’s computers decided this week it will start putting them in their servers. Another reason is that AMD chips dont run as hot
as Intel’s on same loads cutting down on your cooling needs, AMD architecture is also aimed at crunching large blocks of data at a time making it favourable for gaming and other CPU intensive apps while Intels architecture is aimed more at speed causing it to run hotter.
What is your media player of choice.
Let me guess for 99% of you it’s windows media player. If you answered true to this then you are missing out, for its big size doesn’t match its performance. The most basic video file format found on the internet is AVI, if you are using wmp dont click on it since all you will get is sound and an error message unless you have the proper codecs installed, and dont even think of forwarding while watching a big video clip, when it comes to features well there are none to talk off.
Do you feel like trying something different try VLC it is the only media player to play some rare video formats “off the box”, now if ever there was a versatile player this is it will play nearly everything you throw at it partially dowloaded, damaged, incomplete files just to
mention a few, want to stream something over the network “i love this feature” it will do it, save to different format! done in a click. I could go on all day about it, there is a wiki if you want to read more about it. Needless to say it’s more than a year since the last time i used the windows media player on my system and am thinking of uninstalling it since it’s never used. The ball is in your court.
The VideoLan project.