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Originally Posted by kpkelley
The price is ok, but you are going to want to upgrade the cpu and offload the audio decoding to a dedicated card. For that matter, it is a vista machine so you would want to increase the memory to 3gb or more. That will cost you at least another $250.00.
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My HTPC has a P4 2.8ghz, 1gb ram, ATI HD-3450, 2 x 160gb hard drives. I run vista ultimate with ease. Of course, more memory would be even better, but it's definitelly enough. I play blu rays at 1080p with the cpu at around 35% and memory at about 40%. I have turned off the Aero feature to help performance. If he'll be using the SPDIF output, then he'll be fine. The music will be sent digitally so the crappy onboard sound won't ruin the audio.