How well can E2200 handle 1080p Bluray 30fps

wam7 · 7 Jan 2010 at 17:50

My brother needs to upgrade his CPU to handle 1080p Bluray. Will an E2200 running at stock be able to play it smoothly?

His current system:
P4 3.0 Ghz (775)
Abit IG-80
Nvidia 7600GS (No hardware aceleration)
1 gig 3200 DDR

neil_g · 7 Jan 2010 at 17:54

you can download a blu-ray advisor util from the cyberlink website if that helps.. ive got a feeling the graphics card will need hardware acceleration..

jellybeard999 · 7 Jan 2010 at 18:30

The current system should be absolutely fine I'd have thought. Have you tried it?

marscay · 7 Jan 2010 at 18:58

Clocked to 3ghz+ the 2200 would just handle ok @ 1080p (you might see the odd dropped frame here and there?!?!?) but forget it at stock, the small L2 cache really cripples these processors.

I actually have a E2180 @ 3.1 in my htpc atm but i use my 4850 for all decoding, from memory with CoreAVC it was up around 80-90% with 1080p but that was ages ago.

Chris1712 · 7 Jan 2010 at 19:05

No chance without clocking and coreavc.

wam7 · 8 Jan 2010 at 23:32

Thanks for the insight. Next question then is how easy does a 2200 go to 3.00Ghz?

AbsenceJam · 9 Jan 2010 at 00:27

Just buy a cheap nVidia 9400 or better which will do it will perfectly.

bobert50 · 9 Jan 2010 at 01:42

wam7 said:
Thanks for the insight. Next question then is how easy does a 2200 go to 3.00Ghz?

Very tbh! unless your motherboard is really crap.

Holwill · 9 Jan 2010 at 07:05

I have been using a E4600 for about 18 months, it was fine for 1080P @ stock 2.4 and I saw no difference when clocked @3.0. I am really not sure if the 2mb cache over the 1mb cache would make that much difference.

SiD the Turtle · 9 Jan 2010 at 11:23

Until recently I had an E2200 based HTPC, though I bought a cheap graphics card with HW decoding. Using software rendering it was okay unless you were watching action films, then it got super choppy.

Why not just pick up a really cheap graphics card with HW decoding?

cokecan · 9 Jan 2010 at 14:22

SiD the Turtle said:
Until recently I had an E2200 based HTPC, though I bought a cheap graphics card with HW decoding. Using software rendering it was okay unless you were watching action films, then it got super choppy.

Why not just pick up a really cheap graphics card with HW decoding?

This, I would have said go for a budget card with HW decoding instead, it would take a lot more strain off the CPU. Maybe even look at some 2nd hand cards on the MM or egay or something?

Kenai · 9 Jan 2010 at 15:07

I'd just swap the 7600GS for something like this GeForce 210, it has pretty much the latest iteration of nVidias PureVideo HD tech (until the new DX11 parts arrive) and will breeze through 1080p video be it x264 MKV or BluRay discs.

james.miller · 9 Jan 2010 at 18:02

Kenai said:
I'd just swap the 7600GS for something like this GeForce 210, it has pretty much the latest iteration of nVidias PureVideo HD tech (until the new DX11 parts arrive) and will breeze through 1080p video be it x264 MKV or BluRay discs.

yeah, get a decoding card and just about anything will work. my laptop plays bluray faultlessly and the cpu (p8400 c2d) stays at 1.6hgz when doing so