[John Rogers]

At the end of last year I upgraded my home PC as it had been humming right along for about 3 years and here is what I did: AMDx6 CPU, ASUS motherboard that was made specifically for it, NVidia graphics card with 3GB RAM using the HDMI out to a 40 inch Sony Bravia HDTV. I have a TV tuner card so I can watch Dish Network satellite TV and with internet access I can also watch anything online. I reused the 4 1TB drives as they are fairly new but added a couple of new DVD players/burners as they are SATA and a bit faster than the old ones. Several things I found out later were that I could assign all the services and background tasks to one "core" leaving the others free to do video, etc. The cores can be over clocked if needed but so far the most I have had the power up to is about 10% total?!

Some things to consider, if you want to watch text such as what I am typing, make sure that the HDTV has the ability to view "PC" HDMI as regular HDMI is mainly for video or movement. The text will end up being very fuzzy and impossible to read.

Additionally the speed of the internet connection will determine how well things run with streaming video so fastest is best. I have several students that run T-1 lines and have dual processor motherboard machines as they are serious gamers!!!!