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Durvelle27

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Is a Pentium D 331 strong enough for 1080p Blu-ray playback and 3D playback ?
 
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VirtualLarry

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depends on whether you have a video card with hardware offload.

I had issues with a 2.85Ghz Athlon X2.

Edit: def not 3D.
 
zCypher

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"Well I just physically removed my ATI 4650 card and installed the
Gigabyte GT220..with 1 Gb DDR3 RAM....in my main HTPC.
Went to the Geforce download area and got the latest Win7(x86) drivers
and installed them...
Rebooted and VOILA!.. it came up 1920x1080(60Hz)..with my Sony 116cm LCD!
I played some 720p and 1080p mkvs...
then some 720p..50Hz..interlaced stuff
then my usual test DVD thru TMT3..with SimHD ...it looked great!"

http://www.avsforum.com/t/1193027/anyone-have-nvidia-gt220-in-htpc

as for the CPU, really not sure about that one, but this doesn't bode well:
http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/cpu-charts-2007,1644-21.html

if CPU doesn't cut it, maybe look for cheap upgrade options without having to upgrade the motherboard
 
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codyray10

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I dont remember 1080p playback specifically, but I was running a XBMC machine on a Pentium D 3ghz, with a radeon 4830 and it worked well streaming 720p movies. I would imagine the cpu you mentioned should be able to do the job, paired with a decent video card.
 
Durvelle27

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zCypher said:
"Well I just physically removed my ATI 4650 card and installed the
Gigabyte GT220..with 1 Gb DDR3 RAM....in my main HTPC.
Went to the Geforce download area and got the latest Win7(x86) drivers
and installed them...
Rebooted and VOILA!.. it came up 1920x1080(60Hz)..with my Sony 116cm LCD!
I played some 720p and 1080p mkvs...
then some 720p..50Hz..interlaced stuff
then my usual test DVD thru TMT3..with SimHD ...it looked great!"

http://www.avsforum.com/t/1193027/anyone-have-nvidia-gt220-in-htpc

as for the CPU, really not sure about that one, but this doesn't bode well:
http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/cpu-charts-2007,1644-21.html

if CPU doesn't cut it, maybe look for cheap upgrade options without having to upgrade the motherboard
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motherboard doesn't support anything over the Pentium D
 
Durvelle27

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went back and looked at the projector an its 720p not 1080p so only 720p playback
 
lamedude

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In video player using DXVA with just about any GPU made in the last 5 years it should be no problem. 3D will probably need something new. Netflix is a no and Flash is a maybe.
 
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SPBHM

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probably not, but maybe with the right GPU acceleration working...
also, depending on the coded and quality, maybe you can play using core AVC?
I remember core AVC doing miracles for my Athlon 64 X2, running 1080p 60FPS without GPU acceleration,
 
Durvelle27

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NO netflix and no Flash and yes it gonna be a somewhat recent Nvidia card as it has to work with Nvidia 3D vision
 
zCypher

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Even if your board only supports Pentium D - if the CPU turns out to be the only thing holding you back from smooth playback, maybe there is a better Pentium D you could drop in there that would do the trick, just a thought.
 
Durvelle27

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zCypher said:
Even if your board only supports Pentium D - if the CPU turns out to be the only thing holding you back from smooth playback, maybe there is a better Pentium D you could drop in there that would do the trick, just a thought.
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yea gonna look into that
 
Torn Mind

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Well, I do have recent experience computing on Pentium 4s and their Celeron derivatives(still use it as a secondary rig). As mentioned before, your CPU is a Celeron D. That means no dual core and gimped caches. The "D" for these Celeron is just there to distinguish Prescott Celerons from their previous Netburst Celeron brethren.

I have a Socket 478 Celeron D 2.53 Ghz that I pulled out. I overclocked the Celeron up to maybe 2.7ish to improve performance from godawful to slightly less godawful. I replaced it with a less crappy but still crappy 3.2 Ghz Pentium 4 Prescott with Hyperthreading (should have gotten a Northwood, but w/e). I don't have a video card, though.

Celeron Ds suck without a GPU, and I don't even know if those old GPUs can handle 1080p. If they do, I think the Celerons would be a bottleneck.

Basic computing on it was a chore and the integrated GPU on the northbridge will not handle 1080p. I had to overclock the FSB to get some relief for basic computing. Loading Google Maps took an eternity on the Celeron. The Pentium 4 that replaced could handle 480p video and script heavy sites like Google Maps, but I really, really doubt 1080p will work. The chips suck.

An actual Pentium D 9xx probably would indeed do the trick according to that tomshardware link. Prices vary at Ebay.
 
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Durvelle27

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Torn Mind said:
Well, I do have recent experience computing on Pentium 4s and their Celeron derivatives(still use it as a secondary rig). As mentioned before, your CPU is a Celeron D. That means no dual core and gimped caches. The "D" for these Celeron is just there to distinguish Prescott Celerons from their previous Netburst Celeron brethren.

I have a Socket 478 Celeron D 2.53 Ghz that I pulled out. I overclocked the Celeron up to maybe 2.7ish to improve performance from godawful to slightly less godawful. I replaced it with a less crappy but still crappy 3.2 Ghz Pentium 4 Prescott with Hyperthreading (should have gotten a Northwood, but w/e). I don't have a video card, though.

Celeron Ds suck without a GPU, and I don't even know if those old GPUs can handle 1080p. If they do, I think the Celerons would be a bottleneck.

Basic computing on it was a chore and the integrated GPU on the northbridge will not handle 1080p. I had to overclock the FSB to get some relief for basic computing. Loading Google Maps took an eternity on the Celeron. The Pentium 4 that replaced could handle 480p video and script heavy sites like Google Maps, but I really, really doubt 1080p will work. The chips suck.

An actual Pentium D 9xx probably would indeed do the trick according to that tomshardware link. Prices vary at Ebay.
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the video cards i mentioned aren't very old there pretty recent
 
WaitingForNehalem

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The answer to the OP is No. I had a 3.2Ghz Pentium 4 Prescott and it could barely handle 720p videos in VLC by itself. However, with a GPU that offers offloading, it should work fine.
 
Durvelle27

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WaitingForNehalem said:
The answer to the OP is No. I had a 3.2Ghz Pentium 4 Prescott and it could barely handle 720p videos in VLC by itself. However, with a GPU that offers offloading, it should work fine.
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wasn't planing on using it alone as i need a gpu to use Nvidia 3D vision
 
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SPBHM

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I wouldn't really recommend buying a Pentium D, but if you can get one "almost for free", it should be a good option, it would definitely be a huge upgrade from a single core CPU for video...
 
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