Power hungry cpu's to run HD.

Original Message

Name: Cobra_R
Date: September 8, 2006 at 16:04:01 Pacific
Subject: Power hungry cpu's to run HD.
OS: Windows XP Pro
CPU/Ram: AMD Athlon X2 4600+/2GB
Model/Manufacturer: Custom

Comment:

According to Cyberlink, HD video playback from HD DVD and Blu-ray media, requires the following hardware:
Processor: Pentium D 840 EE or higher, Core Duo T2500 or higher, AMD Athlon 64 X2 4200+ or higher, Turion 64 X2 TL-60 or higher
System memory: 1 GB
Operating system: Windows XP SP2
Graphics card: HDMI and HDCP support,
Nvidia 7600GT or higher, ATI X1600 or higher
HD player: Third party software is required, as the Windows Media Player 10/11 will not support Blu-ray- and HD DVD playback
Display: HDMI and HDCP support required

AMD Athlon 64 X2 4600+ OC 2.7ghz
2GB Dual Channel DDR 3200
Nvidia 7900GT
SATA II 2x 200gig 7200rpm 16mb cache RAID-0
Gigabyte Nforce 4 SLI

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Response Number 1

Name: jam
Date: September 8, 2006 at 16:38:14 Pacific
Subject: Power hungry cpu's to run HD.

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This stuff is getting out of hand! lol

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Response Number 2

Name: Sabertooth
Date: September 8, 2006 at 16:46:14 Pacific
Subject: Power hungry cpu's to run HD.

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Even if my machine had the raw horsepower for it, I'll still lack the drive and monitor to fully implement it, so I'm not too bothered at the present time.

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Response Number 3

Name: jackbomb
Date: September 8, 2006 at 21:11:24 Pacific
Subject: Power hungry cpu's to run HD.

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Damn...
Reminds me of when standard DVD hit the market back in 97. If you wanted to play DVD without one of those ISA decoder cards, you needed a 300MHz Pentium II (that chip alone cost $1200 if I remember correctly), 32MB of RAM (another $400), and a video card that supported motion compensation (only ATI provided this feature back in '97, and only on a handful of cards).

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Response Number 4

Name: Sabertooth
Date: September 9, 2006 at 08:07:43 Pacific
Subject: Power hungry cpu's to run HD.

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Yeah!
But folks that had to have that bleeding edge component right there & then, didn't seem to mind paying the $500.00 that those (slow by today's comparison) Creative Labs PC-DVD kits cost to begin with.
Quoting jboy, it's deja vu all over again.

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Response Number 5

Name: Cobra_R
Date: September 10, 2006 at 08:34:27 Pacific
Subject: Power hungry cpu's to run HD.

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I'm wondering how well you can run single core processors on HD playback, considering all that is mentioned is dual-core processors. I mean, I wouldn't see why you couldn't run a Athlon 64 3500+ with HD playblack considering it's has fast as a Athlon 64 4200+ X2 ghz wise, unless all HD playback is optimized for dual cores.
AMD Athlon 64 X2 4600+ OC 2.7ghz
2GB Dual Channel DDR 3200
Nvidia 7900GT
SATA II 2x 200gig 7200rpm 16mb cache RAID-0
Gigabyte Nforce 4 SLI

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