Will the following computer support Blu-Ray playback?

**im_to_hyper** · August 19, 2008

I have a computer with the following specs, and was wondering if it was capable of supporting Blu-Ray playback if I bought a drive:

Pentium 4 2.4GHz/512kb L2/533MHz FSB

3GB PC3200 (400MHZ) DDR RAM

80GB 7200 RPM hard drive

ATI Radeon HD 3650 512MB

I was thinking of getting a PCI card with a SATA adapter, and using that for a BluRay drive.

Edited August 19, 2008 by im_to_hyper

**puntoMX** · August 19, 2008

I was thinking of getting a PCI card with a SATA adapter, and using that for a BluRay drive.

Most controllers use a VIA chip that isn´t really that compatible with SATA although it´s designed for it.

What CPU is that? S478 or S775?

**Zxian** · August 19, 2008

As long as you can get the ATI card to do the hardware decoding of the video stream, you should be able to play BluRay on that system.

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