1080p issues

[Abbysmall]

I dont know if I am posting it in the right place but i need help with something, recently i've bought a TV full HD and i downloaded many series in 1080p (Hi10) so i wanted to connect my pc on my TV so that i can watch full HD anime.Unfortunatly my pc is too old (the motherboard is DDR2 only...) so i decided to build a new PC to watch Full HD stuff and play games i dont know much about these kind of stuff so if possible i wanted help to build a new pc, btw if theres something wrong in this post please forgive me, i am Lumb/Dazy (Lazy + dumb/Dumb + Lazy) and English obviously isn't my native language

 

[IwantPedobearToo]

Why should a DDR2 computer not be able to play 1080p?
And as usual the question which always comes with this pc building is: How much do you want to spend?

 

[Will98]

Moved to "Tech Support & Talk" section. Carry on as normal.

Oh, by the way my 8 year old laptop is a DDR2 mobo with a 2Ghz single processor. It's only got a 128 Nvidia on board graphics card. It plays 1080p just fine.

 

[alexsdu]

My PC is running on DDR2 too, and it can play MW3 decently.

 

[japespszx]

Blah. My previous PC can't play 1080p for some reason. :/
It's specs was:
P4 2.66 ghz
RAM: 512mb
VRAM: 128mb
But I think the problem is with my RAM (?).
What's a DDR2 mobo by the way? All I know is that RAM chips have those classes and mine was the oh-so-old SDRAM. :/
Blah, at least I'm using something else right now... for now anyway. :/
Still not sure if this PC will be given to me or not.

 

[alexsdu]

SDRAM?! My own first PC used SDRAM, and it was back in 2002.
Upgrade(changed the motherboard) to DDR in 2004.

 

[Bartthew]

Try to use The KMPLayer.

 

[Will98]

Yeah, it's your player, not your hardware.

Go with Bartthew's suggestion and see what happens.

[MENTION=25939]japespszx[/MENTION] A DDR2 mobo is a motherboard that only takes DDR2 ram, some motherboards may be backwards compatible with regular DDR ram and it is not compatible with DDR3 ram.

 

[Abbysmall]

my pc is quite old i tried to play 1080p before in bsplayer,medialayer classic & potplayer (quite good player, i just found it recently though) i have R$1500,00 (in dollars it is something like $1100,00) unfortunatly in Brazil eletronics and such are really expensive (almost double price in comparison with USA prices) but i might be able to ask a friend to bring the components for me (from USA, or Switzerland ) a friend is trying to convince me to buy his old I5 processor but i dont know if i should thats why i am thinking in building a new pc

 

[Will98]

How old is your pc?

 

[Abbysmall]

7~8 years it is my first pc

 

[Will98]

My laptop is 8 years old and plays 1080p just fine.

What players were you using? VLC, WMP, etc.?

 

[Vietx2k]

Well he said he wanted to connect his Pc to his New HD Tv. It's more of a simple new Graphics Card. One with a HDMI Output cable (or even maybe a DVI output and get a dvi to hdmi adapter.) Then after that it's mere plug and play .___.

 

[Will98]

Oh....I'm always amazed how I stray off the main topic...

Just build a new system dude. Look around, ask friends, do homework, compare parts, think about future needs, etc. You can build an entry quad-core system for about $450, that will play 1080p just fine, do moderate gaming and stuff.

 

[jikannouse]

if there DDR2..
i use laptop, but i can play 1080p

my laptop is also DDR2

 

[Abbysmall]

hmmm i thought i would need more than a new graphic card... if thats all i need then better !^^ thank you guys a friend recommended a Gforce i will decide after taking some other stuff in consideration thanks u all for the help