I have an old PC lying around, specs are not high AMD Sempron with PCI-E slot.

I'm wondering if I can just plug in a ATI HD 4350 graphics card to play blu-ray, mkv, 720p, 1080p files ?

The graphics card is priced at RM 125, specs : 512MB, DDR2, 64-bit PCI-E interface.

Base on my simply read-up, can I summarize that most of the PCI-E card can be able to play Blu-Ray Disc / Files ?

I have a rather simply audio setup, I do not require those 8 Channel LPM, or HD-Audio,
just running a simple 2.1 speaker. any DTS system sound is sufficient for my future upgrade of 5.1.
HDMI audio pass thru is thus not needed.

Or if possible can anyone recommend the lowest spec graphics card / cheapest I can get to play those files ?

This post has been edited by wseng: Sep 24 2009, 04:20 PM

As long as your graphic card can support up to 1920 x 1080 resolution, then I think it is ok.

A lot of graphics card can support 1080p resolution but it doesn't mean it can play 1080p video smoothly.

I'm running a geoforce 7600GT AGP, old now and it can drive my 1080p plasma. The card is used for my HTPC and I have 1080p hidef movies running fine.

If you can offload the processing power from CPU to GPU, then a Semprom processor will do just fine. I have a PC in my office running Semprom and integrated GeForce 7 series card, I just need to enable hardware acceleration to run 1080p smoothly.

Fuuyoh, typo-detector come liao!!

can celeron or pentium D run 1080p???

Thanks for everyone's input...

But can anyone verify to me that any PCI-E graphics card that I buy today is sufficient to run it ? Even the cheapest RM 125 ATI HD4350 ?