[mythtv-users] video card selection

John Drescher drescherjm at gmail.com
Wed Mar 25 14:12:24 UTC 2009


On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 10:09 AM, Andrew Burgess <aab at cichlid.com> wrote:
> On Tue, 2009-03-24 at 22:14 -0400, Josh White wrote:
>
>> I'm thinking of adding this ZOTAC ZT-96TES3D-FSP GeForce 9600 GT 512M
>> card (http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814500070)
>> 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?
>
> 3Ghz is right on the edge for playing blu-ray (my 3.2 Ghz Q6600 could
> play about a third of the blu-rays I threw at it). So if the windows
> system offloads anything at all it should work.
>
But a 3GHz Pentium D is equivalent to the lowest clocked core2s. I am
talking about the ones that are less than 2GHz.

John


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