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Re:The Old Computer Challenge by swiley on Thursday July 08, 2021 @07:51AM (#27770752)
I wasn't running any hardware accelerated stuff except for video games. That would (I guess unintuitively) take up more memory.
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Re:The Old Computer Challenge by geocrasher on Friday July 09, 2021 @07:09AM (#27782465)
OH I don't mean GPU accelerated, I mean that there are video codecs built into the CPU so they don't have to be done in software. That was the killer for my Phenom II.
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