Can Inspiron 1420, Core 2 Duo T7100 with 8400m gs play 1080P video?

Ordered Inspiron 1420, Intel Core 2 Duo T7100, 1.8GHz with nvidia 8400m gs card.. I have the higher res screen and was wondering if this would be fast enough to playback 720p and 1080p video?

 

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Anyway, it should be. 720p would have to be upscaled and 1080p downscaled, but the 8400M GS should be able to do that fairly easily. Maybe the X3100 would suffice for that.

 

Lobos.... anyway, I was just concerned that the 7100 may not have enough horsepower. But the GPU probably helps more then I thought. I know the macs have more issues with playing 1080p, but then they don't have discreet graphics which probably does not help.

Can one assume the processing power of core 2 1.8Ghz 7100 to be about what a single 3.0 Ghz processor would do? I have read it takes a 3.0Ghz processor to playback 1080P.

 

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Anyway, the t7100, despite its powerful brethren, is still an amazing processor. It should suffice for that. Remember that clock speeds are deceptive. The newer chips with lower clock speeds are actually faster than the older ones with higher clock speeds.

The t7100 is the minimum required for a Blu-Ray drive at Dell.Com, so it should play 1080p fine.

 

Bad news The answer is NO..... The only Dell Inspiron capable of full 1080p resolution would be the 1720. It must be configured with the 1900by1200 screen selection.

This screen resolution is not an option on either the 1420 or the 1520, therefore, neither screen can display 1080p. They can, however, both show 720p, the lower end HD experience.

I don't believe you can confiugre the Blu Ray on the 1420, at least last I checked. If that is something you'd want to do, I recommend at least getting the 1050 resolution max on the 1520 and get Blu Ray with that. It's the highest possible resolution choice without going 17 inch.

 

He's not asking that. You are correct that the 1720 is the only one capable of displaying it.

He's asking if the 8400M GS with T7100 combination will play HD video at 720p and 1080p.

The 1440x900 screen will show more detail than 720p, so his question concerning 1080p has merit, even though the monitor cannot display it to its fullest extent.

 

i watch 720p (1280x720) on a 54 in television and it looks amazing, so im pretty sure 1440x900 is going to look spectacular on a 14.1 in screen, even if its not 1080p high def.

 

I do see what you're saying, he could for example go through the trouble of downloading a high-def movie onto his hard drive and then let it get reduced in quality so it could be viewed on the 14 inch monitor at slightly above 720p.

Hah...I'd still love to see what Blu Ray looks like on the 17 inch in full glory though.

 

I don't care if I can't view 1080P at full 1900by1200. As long as it can be downscaled and still play.. I am ok with that. I realize that my screen will only do 1440x900. I just don't want the file to shudder and freeze like my old amd 1.4Ghz xp chip does. I understand I can do it with the 17, but thats too much bulk. I think the 14inch will be perfect for my needs. Its been so long (2001) since I bought a PC. The 1420 will probably seem really fast. At this point I probably just DL some of the HD samples from MS and Apple to check them out. I am not too comfident in spending bucks on BD or HD DVD. Waiting to see who wins that war.... and it looks like its going to be a long wait.

 

blu ray is going to win

now watch that statement spur 20 replies about hd dvd.

 

Hah...there is a raging debate in the "accessories" section about that. I'm now confident tha Blu Ray will win as well... HD-DVD has no movie studio support and thus no content. The writers cost almost as much as getting a BR writer and BR stores a lot more. So HD-DVD might draw it out, but they can't win it.

Des, I got you. I'm sure it'll look pretty good. If you just download movies online, you won't have to worry about formats anyway (which will eventually be true for everyone). MS is just waiting for this and is trying to position itself to make both disc formats obsolete.

I'm getting confident enough in BR stats now that I think it's just a matter of time. So yea, I've been studying it because I might purchase a laptop with built in BR.

 

HD-DVD is the weapon of choice for the porn industry so plenty of content there .

 

You won't need either on a 14" screen...

 

its more than enough, a T7100 performs better than my Pentium D 2.8. my pentium D 2.8 can easily handle 1080 HD formats.


oh heres the thing though, in order to off load the decoding to your GPU you have to buy Purevideo software from Nvidia.

 

You're supposed to buy it from Nvidia

 

a C2D 1.5 is about the same as a Pentium D 3.0 in performance(also a dual core, just an order generation)

 

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It will play Windows Media based 1080p fine, but H.264, not so much apparently. This is based on my experimentation. 720p, bellisimo.

 

Wonder how it would play 1080P ts file? Thats just a high bitrate mpeg 2 correct?. I am thinking the H.264 is a quicktime format? I don't know much about that format. But I wonder if the pure video software from Nvida would help H.264 or any other software/codec. I am thinking the 8400m gs has the ability to do it with the right software/drivers.

 

thats what these cards were released for right besides dx 10???

 

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So, HI DesertNM, was it capable after all? I'd love to hear your feedback on it

 

dell 1420, 1520 can handle 1080p at 1.8 ghz with 8600m card, you have to do is to use an external monitor which is 1080p capable

 

Thanks mate. Would you be so kind to roughly specify the CPU load when playing such a video? Was it H.264 or MPEG2 1080p you were playing?