hello.. this is my first thread here... i have a full HD lcd TV.... Im using an AMD x2 based PC....gigabyte motherboard.... I have a 11GB bluray ripped HD movie and i cant play it via my CPU....the video is strucking..... My friend told me to use a graphics card and i cant spend much amount buy that... i have seen few in the internet and the cost is more and more enough and i cant go for them.... i dont play any games on my PC but want to watch these HD movies in my 1080p (37" LCD) TV. please help me here
which graphics card do you have currently? try using VideoLAN - VLC media player - Open Source Multimedia Framework and Player
I dont know exactly about the mother board model...its gigabyte made and from the computer management option i found my display adapter as "Nvidia GEforce 6150SE" Can i get it around 5000 indian rupees
download CPUID - System & hardware benchmark, monitoring, reporting and install, after running look under the "mainboard" tab to find your MB model.
Sorry not aware of any indian retailer! Any of these graphics cards should do Graphics Cards - microdirect.co.uk I'd go for the Sapphire Radeon HD 5670 512MB or 9800GT (slightly more expensive). I have the 8800GT (older that 9800GT) which can play any HD 1080p movie. You can probably get a even cheaper card if you only want to watch HD movies...
hello sniper, Thanks for ur suggestions. one more thing... My friend bought a new PC: Intel i5 processor, 55wb board, 4GB ddr3 RAM, GT220(1GB DDR3) GTX card. I have run the "transformers: Revenge of the fallen" HD movie(11GB, 1080p, 2hour length approx.) in that new PC with my 37" LCD TV(1080p). It was super with xcellent resolution and there is no struck in the video. I removed the GT220 GTX and put it in my CPU (AMD athlon X2 dual core, 2.11GHz, 2GB DDR2 RAM). Now the same movie in the same LCD tv is not playing well. But the struck of the video is somewhat improved with this GTX. It is going struck for a short moment and again the video is playing for some time and again struck. Then i increased my RAM to 3GB still there is no change. 1. What'll be the problem and how can i solve this? 2. Does the selection of GTX card depends on the processor and the size of RAM? 3. silly doubt: can an intel P3 processor runs this 1080p with an advanced high end GTX card?
1. Only SATA can handle 1080p. Copy file to local drive C:, if running movie from USB. 2. P3 is not enough of everything. 3. AMD X2 is barely enough (it has small cache), but might work. Anyway, it seems you've got disk problems. Try killing excess processes or using at least 7200rpm or SSD over SATA or similar.
hello, Iam playing the movie from sata 320GB HDD. Ya i had a doubt on the system process also... I installed a new copy of win XP2 and no other installations except drivers and VLC player. System idle process is at 98 - 99%. Does the GTX depends on the mother board RAM to display the images/videos? Do you think GT220 is good? What is ur opinion on 8800GT? Can i purchase a bluray combo for my PC?
8800GT is a lot better than GT220. Though, it's hard to tell exactly what is slowing it down right now. Try getting a program called GPU-Z and see what's the GPU Load, when playing a video. Don't forget to check "Continue refreshing when GPU-Z is in the background" there. If GPU Load will be less than 70%, then the GPU upgrade will not help much. And, yes, playing such highly detailed videos means every possible computer component subjected to high stress. Blu-Ray combo will not help too, aside from giving ability to read the Bluray disks. Not much use, if you can't read it from HDD properly.
