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Hi,
With that processor you are not going to get the best playback, especially with BR's.
If you are looking to upgrade I would suggest (depending on your budget) going for a motherboard, processor bundle (you can get an i5, motherboard and ram for around £300).
If you can stretch for an Nvidia card that gives you DXVA, you can get a decent GTX660 for around £180.
Yes, you are correct, you cannot upgrade to an Intel processor with your current setup.
Hope this helps,
Jay
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I tried it with a Phenom II X4 940 at 3.4ghz, with all effects turned on, and the effects barely use the processor, like 10% of each of the four cores.
This said, on a Full HD TV, those effects do more damage to the picture than good. I can see their use when watching a Blu-Ray on a screen with a higher than 1920x1080 resolution, but on a Full HD screen, I would recommend keeping them turned off.
One effect may be useful among all... while my Toshiba TV's "AMR 100" technology does a MUCH better job than "TrueTheater Motion", for those who have basic screens, this can make motion in heavy actions scenes smoother indeed.
But the other effects... don't turn them on for a Blu-Ray.
And if you have a really poor quality Blu-Ray with a lot of noise, if you really have to, rather use the noise filtering from your graphic card control panel than the TrueTheater ones...