can a 8600 gt run blu ray content at 1080p smoothly ?

[Mr. May]

i was wondering if i could use my old pc as htpc if i slotted in a blu ray player or would it struggle ?

current specs are

939 3700 single core
Asus a8n sli
4gb geil ddr 400
8600gt 512
creative x-fi music xtreme

thanks in advance

 

[shinester184]

Yes it will be ok - people use integrated graphics on intel atom boards for smooth blu-ray play back.

 

[Meaker]

Errr I doubt it shinester, you need a dual core atom with Nvidia's ion for smooth blueray playback. At least official dvds with encryption.

 

[shinester184]

Errr I doubt it shinester, you need a dual core atom with Nvidia's ion for smooth blueray playback. At least official dvds with encryption.

I'm answering the original question to the thread - he has a seperate thread in the CPU section for whether or not his CPU is appropriate.

 

[coupe69]

Should be fine

 

[Meaker]

I'm answering the original question to the thread - he has a seperate thread in the CPU section for whether or not his CPU is appropriate.

And other people reading this may be mislead:

http://www.anandtech.com/video/showdoc.aspx?i=3509&p=2

A standard Atom platform with the 945G chipset couldn’t even attempt to play a Blu-ray movie.

But yes the OP should be fine.

 

[Mr. May]

iam not keen on the atom thing cant even get my head round micro atx lol would going sli with two off this cards improve things or is that just limiteded to rendering ie games ?

 

[DIABLO]

The original atom can just about play 720i with the right codec it's not perfect though.

 

[wakayoda]

you can run blue ray off a powerfull cpu with no gpu

 

[Jynmagic]

You should be able to.

 

[coupe69]

Will be fine

I'll change it to "will be fine" then as some people seem to have missed my subtle underlined link The 8600GT will be fine to play bluray, The quote below is taken from this Nvidia FAQ.

Q. Do the GeForce 8800 series GPUs include the same video processing capabilities as the new GeForce 8400, GeForce 8500 and GeForce 8600 GPUs?
No. The GeForce 8800 uses the previous generation of PureVideo HD. This is because the GeForce 8800 is usually paired with more powerful dual-core CPUs and our goal is to achieve balanced use of all the processing power in your machine. With the GeForce 8800, it makes sense to let these powerful CPU cores handle functions they do well. But with the lower-end GPUs, which are usually paired with less-powerful, single-core CPUs, it is better for the GPU to take on the entire video decoding and processing task and the new PureVideo HD engine has been enhanced with these chips in mind.

Q. Does PureVideo HD support both Blu-ray and HD DVD?
Yes. PureVideo HD provides hardware acceleration for decoding the compression routines used on both Blu-ray and HD DVD movies: H.264, VC-1, and MPEG-2.

you can run blue ray off a powerfull cpu with no gpu

Pretty pointless if you've got nothing to output the bluray