NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT

[zeiter]

Does it support 1080p (1920 x 1080) output with dvi to hdmi to plug it into my hdtv??

 

[EricVT]

Or 1280x720p?

(sorry to steal your thread, hoping someone can answer both because I'm curious about both)

 

[Watabou]

And does it support DX10?

 

[SVT Amateur]

And does it support DX10?

Yes.

 

[spaceballl]

Does it support 1080p (1920 x 1080) output with dvi to hdmi to plug it into my hdtv??

yes.

Or 1280x720p?

yes

I ran an external 24" 1920x1200 display off my gen1 macbook - you'll have no problem running high resolutions w/ this videocard.

 

[chrmjenkins]

Lots of yeses, but it won't do your taxes.

 

[voyagerd]

Lots of yeses, but it won't do your taxes.

But with the proper OpenGL Shaders, it can make your taxes beautiful.

 

[waywardsage]

I've wondered this myself. However, can this card decode Blu ray? say, if I upgraded my DVD burner to a Blu ray drive in the future? I'm getting a 17" Macbook Pro. So it'll matter to me.

 

[voyagerd]

I've wondered this myself. However, can this card decode Blu ray? say, if I upgraded my DVD burner to a Blu ray drive in the future? I'm getting a 17" Macbook Pro. So it'll matter to me.

You don't need a special graphics card to decode blu-ray. It just accelerates it so your CPU doesn't have to do all the work. The following features probably only work in Windows Media Player unfortunately.

NVIDIA PureVideo® HD Technology
•Dedicated on-chip video processor
•High-definition H.264, VC-1, MPEG2 and WMV9 decode acceleration
•Advanced spatial-temporal de-interlacing
•HDCP capable
•Noise Reduction
•Edge Enhancement
•Bad Edit Correction
•Inverse telecine (2:2 and 3:2 pull-down correction)
•High-quality scaling
•Video color correction
•Microsoft® Video Mixing Renderer (VMR) support

 

[EricVT]

Thank you!

Can't wait to get my soon-coming MBP hooked up to my 52" DLP and 5.1 system. It will likely sit on my component shelf hooked up just like that most of the time when I don't have it out and about.

 

[waywardsage]

Can you download Windows media player for Mac? This may be a stupid question, i'm not a mac user just yet.

 

[JWest]

Can you download Windows media player for Mac? This may be a stupid question, i'm not a mac user just yet.

I don't believe they make it for Mac anymore (though I think they used to). Anywho, you can download Flip4Mac (which is free) which let's you play various windows media formats in quicktime and iTunes.

 

[Tracer]

Use VLC it will play anything you throw at it.

Including those pesky MKVs.

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[voyagerd]

Use VLC it will play anything you throw at it.

Including those pesky MKVs.

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And when VLC just isn't fast enough, compile MPlayer. Even my friend's PowerBook G4 could play 1080P WMVs with that.

 

[masse]

Intersting... I can't play anything hd on my powerbook.

 

[zeiter]

Intersting... I can't play anything hd on my powerbook.

your processor is not fast enough!

 

[voyagerd]

Intersting... I can't play anything hd on my powerbook.

If you compiled Mplayer yourself, you could play at least 720p and some 1080p movies.

 

[kashik]

MPlayer is brilliant! Glad to hear it works on Macs too.

 

[kolax]

And when VLC just isn't fast enough, compile MPlayer. Even my friend's PowerBook G4 could play 1080P WMVs with that.

Would you say MPlayer plays HD smoother than VLC?

 

[DallasDeckard]

Would I just use a regular adapter?

yes.

yes

I ran an external 24" 1920x1200 display off my gen1 macbook - you'll have no problem running high resolutions w/ this videocard.

Thanks for answering this question. I was wondering, do I just need a simple DVI-D to Component adapter, or something more exotic?

I saw this one:

http://sewelldirect.com/product.asp.../RpN/Scik6pIE5gswHfyITW4iVFDRshMIR7dqVvrLHvhN

but it says it's designed with "ATI chipsets" in mind. I see plenty of DVI to Component adapters, and just wondered if that would do the trick. Thanks for the help.