Youtube and Core2Duo
 

A friend of mine is using a Intel E8400 with 3gb ram running some stupidly old video card (GTX430 or something). She is complaining about videos will lag badly when watching 2 or more youtube (facebook, vimeo) videos simultaneously. She has no plan to buy a brand new PC, just wonder will a newer video card fix the problem completely or a faster CPU will take care the lag?

that computer is perfectly fine to run youtube videos

I ran 1080p on that type of processor before

reformat computer probably because it is filled with junk and viruses

edit:

I even remember that net cafe near tim hortons on 3 road first had E8400. They ran modern warefare 2 and starcraft 2 easily.....

Who watches 2 videos at the same time?

Anywho, install latest video drivers. Also, if you're using Chrome try Firefox. Chrome does weird stuff with resource management sometimes.

sometimes 1 video just doesn't cut it

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Which browser is she using?

I had a similar problem using Chrome. I disabled hardware acceleration in Chrome and problem was solved. It uses CPU much more so the fan will go off moreso than usual.

lol will try to type in her browser..."po" and see what pops up

anyway, I recall she is using Chrome latest version and win8 or 10. Not sure the setting, should be everything by default. Also, the motherboard is the low end G41 or something which cannot be overclocked a lot. I'll try disable the hardware acceleration first, and see what will happen.

my pc is older and htlm5 usually runs like dog shit on it.
firefox has add ons to force youtube to use flash again.
as far as i know html5 doesn't utilize hardware acceleration so i don't think it matters what vid card she has

which operating system do she use?

win10 home.

getting her Xeon E5450 (mod to fit socket 775 + bios)