ASUS M3A78-EM Blue Ray Support question.

[gba]

I saw the following product review at Newegg:

"This board requires a Phenom class CPU in order to utilize its HD processing abilities. The 3200's post-processing engine for high-definition video playback actually requires the 1.8GHz HT link that Phenom provides."

Is it true that the onboard ATI Radeon HD 3200 gpu would not be able to handle hi def without being paired with a Phenom?

Thanks in advance for any input people may have...

 

[heyheybooboo]

Originally posted by: gba
I saw the following product review at Newegg:

"This board requires a Phenom class CPU in order to utilize its HD processing abilities. The 3200's post-processing engine for high-definition video playback actually requires the 1.8GHz HT link that Phenom provides."

Is it true that the onboard ATI Radeon HD 3200 gpu would not be able to handle hi def without being paired with a Phenom?

Thanks in advance for any input people may have...

All I can do is laugh ... :laugh:

A Phenom level microprocessor is not necessary for Blu-ray/HD-DVD playback on the Asus M3A78-EM AMD 780g

The Radeon HD 3200 onboard chip is a die shrink of the HD 2400xt discreet video card and substantially reduces cpu utilization by off-loading h.264/VC-1 processing.

I have updated the review thread.

edit: And yes, an X2 5200+ will be more than sufficient.

 

[gba]

Thanks for the clarification... that review just did not ring true.