I thin it's great that there are so many things that *could* be done with an old computer. I, for example, set our old one up as a file server for family pictures and videos. Turns out I'm the only one who ever uses it. :/
Actually, your HDs (unless they're either SSDs or else 10K drives) are probably going ot be the biggest bottleneck here.
I'm guessing you've got 5900 rpm IDEs in there, right? Probably not even Ultra DMA 133, either, more like UDMA 100s ....
Or did that board come with SATA 1st gen?
The reason I say that is that, while your RAM is limiting you, your HDs are limiting you more b/c of all the paging it has to do to keep up with the demand for the 720 content and OS and I/O of a general nature.
Disagree. Where as RAM is important, high def encoding is CPU reliant. Any single core CPU is a no no. The lower spec duals, good luck. I stream my HD data over the network from a RAID 5 of 4 7200rpm drives. Yes its 10/100 network but the drives definitely aren't an issue
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I didn't mean in general, I meant for that particular machine. I'm almost positive that at best case it was a very low end dual core if not a true single core - meaning it was already a bottle neck in and of itself as a complete system and because of the age of all the components individually.
