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im_to_hyper
Aug 18 2008, 09:16 PM
I have a computer with the following specs, and was wondering if it was capable of supporting Blu-Ray playback if I bought a drive:

Pentium 4 2.4GHz/512kb L2/533MHz FSB
3GB PC3200 (400MHZ) DDR RAM
80GB 7200 RPM hard drive
ATI Radeon HD 3650 512MB

I was thinking of getting a PCI card with a SATA adapter, and using that for a BluRay drive.
puntoMX
Aug 18 2008, 09:25 PM
QUOTE (im_to_hyper @ Aug 18 2008, 10:16 PM) *
I was thinking of getting a PCI card with a SATA adapter, and using that for a BluRay drive.
Most controllers use a VIA chip that isnīt really that compatible with SATA although itīs designed for it.

What CPU is that? S478 or S775?
Zxian
Aug 19 2008, 01:39 AM
As long as you can get the ATI card to do the hardware decoding of the video stream, you should be able to play BluRay on that system. smile.gif
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