Recent content by sidtheduck

Thanks again for your help, lonewolf7

Thanks for the answer, lonewolf7. I totally agree and had actually purchased a Seasonic x650 Gold to replace the old PSU with and an Radeon HD 7770. However, the z200 uses a proprietary psu which is larger than a standard ATX and the motherboard 20-pin connector is non-standard either (I just...

My boss has an HP z200 workstation that he bought about 3-1/2 years ago (now out of warranty) that he runs SketchUp on. Some of our models are running slow and I wanted to upgrade his video card. The only downside is the PSU on the z200 is a 320W proprietary psu (non-standard-ATX). The system...

Yep, flash "Enable hardware acceleration" is checked (and works better, but not awesome when enabled) and I'm sure I have the AGP hotfix drivers installed. But, after confirming, CPU still goes to 100% when watching any flash media (same in XP). Any other thoughts, or am I just stuck with some...

I know, I know ... AGP is seriously old tech. I'm trying an experiment to see if I can repurpose my old rig into an HTPC. It works OK in Windows XP, but was testing out Windows 7 on it to see if I could get hardware acceleration running to reduce the load on the old CPU when watching streaming...