Video Hitching Just Watching Espn Or Hulu

Not a gamer. My system is old Dell XPS Gen 3 Pentium 4 3.6 GHz, 3 GB RAM with Intel 925X Express. Internet is 6 MBaud download speed.

Was using a ATI Radeon x300/x550/x1050 series, 128 MB GPU. Thought that was the problem and installed SAPPHIRE Radeon HD 4670 DirectX 10.1 100295HDMI 512MB 128-Bit GDDR3 PCI Express 2.0 x16 card. Still have hitching and no improvement whatsoever. I think it's installed correctly with Catalyst Control Center, device working properly in Device Manager. Somehow I don't think the GPU is deployed properly.

What could be the problem? No problem with video when watching video on a Centrino laptop or Duo Core desktop.

 

Running Windows XP Pro, service pack 3. I just replaced the card and installed Catalyst driver.

I will try to uninstall old driver and reinstall Catalyst.

Don't think it's the startups, CPU usage max out when loading webpages and watching videos.

 

Yes; but, your antivirus, for example, scans that video as it goes by to make sure its not a virus.
Winpatrol is a great way to manage startup items (right-click and disable) with the strength being you can undo it if you make a mistake: http://www.winpatrol.com/download.html (the free version is fine)
You should also:
go to the Flash player icon in the control panel and delete all the temporary files
use CCleaner to dump the trash ( I just had a PC with 22.7 GB of temp files!)
run the disk defragmenter

What's chewing you up is that the CPU is splitting the stream into audio and video content then converting it into what gets sent to the two subsystems. What would really give the PC a kick in the pants is a dual-core processor; but, the 925X chipset won't run one.

 

I'm using Avira free antivirus and Outpost firewall. I guess I can try to disable Avira real time protection just to test.

I did use CCleaner and it didn't help. I've already disabled most startup items.

Keeping the 925X chipset, is it possible to make it more efficient for video?

 

Sounds more like a software issue to me. But it would be helpful if you posted a focussed, close up, (alt + Prt Sc) screenshot of your start ups. CCleaner > Tools > Startups windows from the first to last, is a good way of showing them.

 

1. How much ram memory do you have?
2. What do you get running something like http://www.speedtest.net/ 's test?