ASENT Media Centres – Blog

Well it turns out I was not quite right – although upgrading the GPU to an 8400GS was a vast improvement, it is still not quite right. It seems that the CPU carries a bit of workload when paying Blu ray.The processor is running at between 60% and 100% during play back. And this is causing it to stutter slightly – enough to be annoying.

For the record the CPU is an Intel Pentium D 3066 MHz. So it seems that I DO need to upgrade my CPU

Which is a shame, becasue I really don’t want to. Although it does mean I can use the exisiting CPU in my yet-to-be-built home server….

Tags: 8400GS, Blu Ray, Pentium D, Vista Media Centre

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