DVD TECHNICAL QUESTION

[dick]

I want to add DVD to my old computer. What is the minimum system needed to be able to do this??

[smorodina]

Surprised that this hasn't been answered! I have no definitive answer - I can only say that I have a DVD player and burner, and I author discs on a 600MHz system with no problem at all. So I would suggest you could get away with something a bit slower, although I did have a little trouble playing video files on a 366 celeron.

[dick]

so possibly 500MHz chip with 64mb ram as a realistic minimum???

[edhesketh]

The performance of your graphics card will be important. I had a system with a 600Mhz Celeron and 64mb of RAM the DVD player would not run very well because of my graphics card. I had a 16mb and DVDs wouldn't run smoothly. So maybe a 32mb graphics card and above would be recommended.

[stevie21]

I've still got the box for the basic DVD drive (a Samsung combo: DVD player & CD-RW) that I put in my PC & it says:

Pentium II 266 or above

'Not ancient' version of Windows (95/98 or newer)

64MB RAM

1GB hard drive space. This is, I'd guess, because my drive acts as a CD-RW as well so I need temporary space on my HD for copying CDs.

hth

[SteveD]

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