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Computer help: Blu-Ray Drive Question
Blu-Ray Drive Question
by sart35 - 2/19/09 11:13 AMI have been rebuilding an old Dell comp to be a media center PC. The processor is a Pentium 4 Prescott. I have maxed out the RAM to 4GB and have also added a Radeon HD3650 512 MB graphics card. I am running Windows XP SP3 as operating system. I want to install a Blu-Ray DVD drive into this machine but am not sure if it will work with the P4 processor. Is it possible to get the drive to work or should I not waste my time?
Too close to the edge.
by R. Proffitt
- 2/19/09 11:41 AM
In reply to: Blu-Ray Drive Question by sart35
"The playback of high definition DVD titles requires higher CPU speed. The following is a list of the recommended CPU requirements to play Blu-ray Disc titles:
Intel (Minimum):
Pentium 4 541 3.2 GHz," and it gets progressively faster from there.
That RAM may actually be a bottle neck. Be sure you have just a pair of RAM sticks to not accidentally cause a drop in speed there. BR playback is not a memory issue but one of sheer horsepower.
Bob
Thanks
by sart35 - 2/19/09 12:36 PM In reply to: Too close to the edge. by R. Proffitt
Thanks for the help
the hd3650 is a good choice for HD playback
by ramarc - 2/19/09 5:41 PM In reply to: Thanks by sart35all hd series radeons provide HD playback acceleration. the cpu only deals with decryption -- the gpu handles decoding h.264 and vc-1 material. an hd3650 is a better gpu than a hd2600xt but in the link below, you'll see that there's little distinction between the various cards.
http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/avivo-hd-purevideo,1711-14.html
without a card that handles the HD acceleration, the p4 would struggle and drop a lot of frames.
This might help . . .
by Coryphaeus - 2/19/09 4:07 PM In reply to: Blu-Ray Drive Question by sart35Thanks
by sart35 - 2/19/09 5:41 PM In reply to: This might help . . . by CoryphaeusThe link helped a lot. Thanks for the help
Why would you care?
by wdbintx - 2/22/09 8:33 PM In reply to: Blu-Ray Drive Question by sart35Have you not learned anything in the past 6 months? Along with bankers who thought they could pass their undocumented loans off with no consequence, foolish consumers feeling the need to spend 2X to 10X more than their neighbor in order to get an incremental 0.001% "pizzazz" are what got the US into the deep financial doodoo we're in today. Starbucks coffee & blu-ray dvd's are two fine examples of that misguided consumer quest for "the best, price be damned" (is the "best" really better when you can only tell the difference after being told which is the pricey product?) Starbucks is already collapsing under its own bloated weight - blu-ray can't be far behind.
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