Check 1080 and 4K bitrates and transfer speeds

[desvest]

Good morning, I hope you are well. I decided to write this topic because I could not find concise information on the web about it. I have several questions and I would like to gather them in a single post, because they are all about video.
The first question is, what equipment is necessary to watch 1080 content on YouTube? I have a Core 2 Quad Q9550, 6GB of DDR2 800Mhz RAM and a GTX 750i. The connection I have from Movistar is fiber at 600Mb, but with all this, the videos are cutting off and are not seen fluidly.
The second question is, what equipment is necessary to watch movies in 4K, since mine does not support them either, and they are seen with cuts. The only thing I have been able to find is that because of PlayReady 3.0 DRM, old equipment cannot play 4K videos on Windows 10.
And the third and last question is, I store videos in 4K on HDD, will a 5,400RPM disk be enough to watch them comfortably or will it create a bottleneck?
Thank you very much and I apologize if some of these questions are well known.
Regards!

[Sylver]

Hello,

Have you tried manually optimizing the performance settings? In system settings.

If it doesn't work, I would check the disk, sometimes it's the culprit when performance issues/stuttering in some tasks appear.

Best regards

[desvest]

Perfect **Sylver**! thank you very much! I have solved the first problem which was the YouTube viewing. By modifying the performance and unchecking some options so that it does not remain completely ugly (and the Windows typography is almost illegible) I have solved the hangs in videos at 1080 and 60 Hz. Even disabling all options and setting it for higher performance, the 4K videos are not displayed correctly.
Regarding the local videos that I have, I have done a test after having touched these performance options and I still have problems.
I have tried the 4K video from my SSD and I still have stutters, and from the HDD they are more evident. So regarding the video from the computer, is a more powerful machine necessary?

[Sylver]

@desvest For 4K, you may need a slightly more powerful setup, although the one you have is good, you may have a small bottleneck somewhere.

It also happens (if I'm not mistaken) that due to the platform you use, you don't have speed beyond SATA2 on the board, which could be a relevant factor for the SSD, which goes up to SATA3. I have personally tested SSDs on decent 775 boards and that factor made the system not as smooth and fast as it should be, although I suppose the difference with an HDD still exists of course.

With local videos, I wouldn't know the reason for what happens to you, unless the communication between the disk and the rest of the equipment is not entirely good, or the system is not well optimized. I personally use Windows 7 64 bits and I don't have that problem on a 775 platform, with a Q6600 specifically and a graphics card much inferior to yours. You could try the operation under Windows 7 64 bits if you have a hard drive handy, to confirm that it's not a hardware problem.

It's obvious but just in case I mention it, that I suppose that to be able to see the 4K video well, you will have a monitor with 4K resolution.

Regards

[desvest]

Well Sylver, thank you very much for your advice. This only speeds up my plans to upgrade my equipment. I'm waiting for the new AMD graphics cards to come out to make the upgrade. If I told you that I got this computer I have now from the trash... we would realize that it's a joke jajajaa
Thanks again for your help!

[Sylver]

@desvest No problem, I already told you, I also have a lower 775 at home and with Windows 7 the videos look good, both local and online. In case you want to try before buying something new.

Regards