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Gfx card to play blu-ray

TheGreatest · 2008-12-21 13:01:32

Just put a blu-ray drive (LG - HL-DT-ST BD-RE GBW-H20L) into my system but I think my graphics card is not capable of playing blu-ray dvds. Thinking of buying THIS. Wondering woud this be enough to playback blu-ray movies? current system specs: Dell Optiplex 745 Intel Core2 CPU 6300 @ 1.86GHz 1 gig RAM NVIDIA GeForce 6800…

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21-12-2008 2:01pm

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TheGreatest

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Just put a blu-ray drive (LG - HL-DT-ST BD-RE GBW-H20L) into my system but I think my graphics card is not capable of playing blu-ray dvds.

Thinking of buying THIS. Wondering woud this be enough to playback blu-ray movies?

current system specs:
Dell Optiplex 745
Intel Core2 CPU 6300 @ 1.86GHz
1 gig RAM
NVIDIA GeForce 6800 256Mb

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#2 24-12-2008 11:54pm
gamer

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i think you need a hdcp compliant monitor or hdtv with hdmi to play a blueray disk anyway,at full resolution,otherwise it,will play at 720p resolution, google info blue ray hdcp monitor uk.

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#3 25-12-2008 4:17pm
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Ati 3450 passive , about 25 euros , will play 1080p all day no problems .

http://www4.hardwareversand.de/4VhEPReSsiKFuP/articledetail.jsp?aid=24198&agid=716

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#4 27-12-2008 7:03am
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Anything with HDMI will be able to chug a bluray movie.

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