would a 939 athlon 64 3700 be good enuff for blu ray ?

[Mr. May]

hello all i was wondering if a socket 939 3700 san diego cpu with 2gb ddr 400 ram and a 8600gt 512 be enuff to run blu ray films to my tv if i bought a new blu ray drive


if not would a x2 3800 939 ? i dont wont to go mad on up grading my pc bare in mind

thanks in advance

 

[bigjimmyauk]

hello all i was wondering if a socket 939 3700 san diego cpu with 2gb ddr 400 ram and a 8600gt 512 be enuff to run blu ray films to my tv if i bought a new blu ray drive


if not would a x2 3800 939 ? i dont wont to go mad on up grading my pc bare in mind

thanks in advance

that cpu would definately proccess enough data it's all about the graphics card
plenty of info on google most reccommend 2ghz upwards but with a meaty video card

 

[Mr. May]

which one the 3700 ? and ive got a 8600gt 512 just changed my x1800xt 256mb for it as i didnf think it had enuff ram and was too loud lol

 

[redballoon]

Most 8600GT cards don't have HDCP and you do need that for blu-ray.

 

[clv101]

Try the PowerDVD's bluray advisor:
http://www.cyberlink.com/stat/bd-support/enu/index.jsp

 

[Mr. May]

it says it has HDCP though what card would you advise me on ?

 

[redballoon]

it says it has HDCP though what card would you advise me on ?

The 8600GT should be a good enough card then

 

[Mr. May]

ive looked through that cyberlink requirments and says i should have a 3800 x2 as minimum so i think that might be the problem or is that a load BS ?

 

[cmndr_andi]

If you have a 8600GT then if you play a blu ray, the heavy lifting will be done by the graphics card. The CPU doesn't do much at all - so you will be fine.

For example, the ION boards use a puny atom processor - but they can play Blu Rays fine as the real computing is done by the integrated graphics, not the CPU.

 

[DireEmblem]

Hang on a sec... you dont want to go mad upgrading your pc, and yet you have an i7 rig?

I assume your san diego powers some media box then?

 

[ChrisLandin]

My old rig was a good old opty 185 on a 939 motherboard and it played blu ray fine on my asus 8600gt.

 

[Mr. May]

yer ive got a i7 rig kicks ass too but it annoys me having to run 4 screens off it as it spilts sli between my 50 and 22 so i lose half the fps just to clone the picture ??? (nvidia get your act together) i have got an old pc which also go to my tv through vga lead and has my gigaworks pluged into for films as my main rig has its own 5.1 and would not sound right for films so i use my old pc as a htpc for music and films and anyone who wants to surf the web and due to buying a new tv i would like to use blu ray and get proper DTS sound and 1080p picture i would like a 180 opty for my old machine(which are way to expensive now mers well go core 2 duo or am2) which was the 1st pc i built and cant bear to sell it lol