Will DVDs play properly on a K6-2-350?

Gaunt · Post by **Gaunt** » Thu Dec 07, 2000 12:13 pm

This may seem like a stupid question, but I haven't had a computer this slow in a long time and I would like to know if anyone thinks dvds will play properly on an AMD k6-2-350 with 96 megs of RAM and a voodoo2 banshee. There is no hardware DVD decoder in the machine, although I have an ATI card with dvd hardware that I could put in the machine if it would help. Any comments/suggestions (besides getting a new machine/video card) ?

dadx2mj · Post by **dadx2mj** » Thu Dec 07, 2000 12:52 pm

I think most will agree that you need a CPU of at least 450 Mhz to play DVD's smoothly without a decoder card

Coco · Post by **Coco** » Thu Dec 07, 2000 12:59 pm

Haha, you and I posted the same thing!

http://www.pcabusers.net/forums/showthr ... eadid=1020

I have a K6-2 350, 64MB RAM, Banshee, Want to know if it will run DVDs...

LarryJoe · Post by **LarryJoe** » Thu Dec 07, 2000 5:27 pm

I highly doubt it will play without skipping or hiccuping. I recently put a Pioneer 104S in my buddy's Dell LX P2 300 box that had a 4MB STB Velocity 128. DVD just barely played and you could tell the system was going all out. You definitely could not do anything else while playing a DVD. Since the P2 300 is a superior chip to your K6-2, I would have to say no.

LJ

pidge · Post by **pidge** » Thu Dec 07, 2000 8:32 pm

Your video card does not support motion compensation so I would say only if you got a hardware decoder board.