Will the following computer support Blu-Ray playback?

[im_to_hyper]

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]

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]

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.