how about this for an all round home pc?

Shambolic Charm

Shambolic Charm

Shambolic Charm

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upgrading my living room pc. It will be for listening to music, internet, a bit of sound editing, remote control system, watching tv, recording , word processing and quite a bit more many at the same time (my current pc pentium 2.8 often freezes with the load). This is what i am thinking of getting. Is it all compatible and up to the job?

Abit Fatal1ty F-I90HD ATI Micro ATX (Socket 775) PCI-Express DDR2 Motherboard
(£68.14) £57.99

Intel Core 2 Quad Pro Q6600 "Energy Efficient SLACR 95W Edition" 2.40GHz (1066FSB) - Retail £142.99
(£168.01) £142.99
Does this cpu come with the fan?

Antec Fusion HTPC Case - 430HE Watt PSU A
(£115.14) £97.99

Corsair 2GB DDR2 XMS2-6400C4 TwinX (2x1GB) (compatible?)
(£38.76) £32.99

Compro VideoMate DVB-T220 Digital TV Internal PCI - Retail
(£32.89) £27.99

thanks for any help
David
 
Quad core for word (and other light tasks) seems crazy overkill to me mate. Surely a 2140 would be great for 40 quid instead?
 
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Surely even that is massive overkill though? Is your CPU not capable in word?
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It will be for listening to music, internet, a bit of sound editing, remote control system, watching tv, recording , word processing and quite a bit more many at the same time (my current pc pentium 2.8 often freezes with the load). This is what i am thinking of getting. Is it all compatible and up to the job?
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I read that bit mate just using word as an example. I'm sure people used to multitask before 3ghz dual cores :p

upto the OP anyway, but I think anything over a 2180 is silly for this type of application.
 
yes as above.I'm not sure it is overkill as my current pentium4 2.8 is constantly freezing due to overload. To give an example. I am a musician who produces my own music so whilst most of my work is done in the studio pc. I often do sound processing on the home pc. I am also recording a massive quantity of lectures from cassette into the pc. So whilst this is happening I may watch a bit of TV and check through some transcripts at the same time, flip over to the internet for reference or put a bit of music on in the background. Do some alterations to my web page upload music, zip and send wav files to my associates.or watch some film rushes of a film I am contributing music to with e-mail coming in throughout the day and net remote wireless remote system triggering usbuirt infrra red and remotely controlling music and tv So I have many programs running concurrently even if I am not actually using them all at once. Word is a minor part of it all. I have such problems with freezing and lumpiness on the pc these days I just want to be sure I avoid it. It is so annoying when things start stuttering and if you are editing music it becomes impossible. My current processor is constantly hitting 100% with the fans wirring away to keep the heat down So maybe i didn't give enough detail. Is it still overkill?
 
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Also tell you what really kills the cpu is booting up these badly written programs (especially microsoft stodge) whilst trying to do sound editing. That always stutters the sound files
p.s. some of the sound editing is multitrack - maybe 11 tracks on sonar with compressors and fx on each track not so often but occasionally (bringing work home)
 
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If you are doing multi-threaded music processing then perhaps quad core is the way forward, but don't forget a dual core will be in a different league to your P4. As you have your heart set on a quad then go for it mate, if you don't you wont be happy. :)
 
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