HD Media Centre Minimum Spec?

[chimaera]

I've just built a new rig which means i've got an old shuttle lying around that i fancy converting into a media centre pc.

Base Spec...

SN95G5 Shuttle
Athlon 64 3500+
2GB ram

My plan was to throw a blu ray drive in there along with a HD GPU like...

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=GX-216-AS&groupid=701&catid=56&subcat=1010

Does anyone know if that setup is capable of playing full HD content?

Thanks.

 

[chipps101]

hi there, i used to use an old compaq presario as my media centre and that had an athlon 64 3500 in it and with an asus 9400gt and a gainward 8400gs it had trouble playing back hd dvd's.
i eventually swapped them for a radeon 4350 and after that it played them fine with no skips or stutters so i would recommend this card - http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=GX-144-XF&groupid=701&catid=56&subcat=1274
that geforce 210 also looks to have the same fan that my 9400gt had on it which was a bit louder than the rest of my machine.