Here are some specs, but not sure if there is further information needed to figure out the issue. Thanks in advance!

AMD Athlon 64 Processor 3500+
2121 GHz 2GB Ram
NVIDIA GE Force 7900 GTX

Noticing chopiness playing any sort of videos, both online and hard drive.

Thank you for any friendly advice!

Here are some specs, but not sure if there is further information needed to figure out the issue. Thanks in advance!

AMD Athlon 64 Processor 3500+
2121 GHz 2GB Ram
NVIDIA GE Force 7900 GTX

Noticing chopiness playing any sort of videos, both online and hard drive.

Thank you for any friendly advice!


If you're playing a game online on someone elses server, it could be they can't handle the traffic and band width is not good.

If you're playing a game online on someone elses server, it could be they can't handle the traffic and band width is not good.

Not the case here, even dvds, Youtube videos, and videos on the hard drive. Thank you, though. :howdy:

Usually caused by one of a couple of things.

1) make sure you've got the latest and greatest driver. Don't just install the new one, de-install the old driver, reboot, then install the updated driver.

2) Processor interrupt, could be malware or another program stealing CPU cycles. Run the Task Manager to see if something is using more CPU that it should.

3) In the Video Properties, Advanced Tab, Troubleshooting, try changing the Acceleration.

I would also add that you run a derfag (with something other than the default Windows - such as Diskeeper) and Disk Cleanup. If you are running out of Disk Space, it could cause video problems.

If you try all of the above it may be your graphics card fixing to bite the dust. Your heat sink could have gone bad and killed your graphics card from what Dell told me on my lappy when it started doing that.

Here are some specs, but not sure if there is further information needed to figure out the issue. Thanks in advance!

Thank you for any friendly advice!


Mine suddenly got bad play games ... the Video Card fan had finally locked up

my GPU was a toasty 65 C

where normally it is 45C @ Idle and 52 - 56 Playing games