This may be a bit off topic, but this seems like the right crowd to ask. <br><br>I'm thinking of adding this<font><font size="2"> ZOTAC ZT-96TES3D-FSP GeForce 9600 GT 512M</font></font>
card (<a href="http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814500070">http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814500070</a>) to my desktop machine, which will be running Windows 7 (it's a Dell XPS Gen 5 w/ a Pentium D & 4gb of ram) and I was wondering if it would be up to the task of playing a Blu-Ray. Does the windows equivelent of VDPAU take enough of the load that my loaly 3ghz Pentuim D system would be able to play a blu-ray? My media center room has my main myth box driving my flat panel display, but due to the unique layout of my room, and my foresight in running two hdmi cables through the wall from my desk to where my tv resides, I was thinking I could put a Blu-ray drive in the box, use it to rip discs for archive/mythvideo purposes, but also use it to watch a rented/netflixed movie on occasion on my big tv. Any idea if the rest of my system would be up to the task? <br>
<br>My myth-relevant question about the card would concern future Myth/Linux use: would the hdmi port and/or the display port be supported with the linux proprietary linux drivers? I use two 19" flat panel displays for my desktop machine, so having two DVI ports, and three other ports that would potentially work wiith a TV would seem to make this card seem like a decent mythtv accessory down the line. Has anyone else in mythland tried this bugger? <br>
<br><br>- Josh<br>