Quote: Originally Posted by
judoGTI 
YOu should be able to use the 2.4. I think mine is a 2.4 Ghz (its been so long since Ive had to tinker with it I dont remember) but I use the nVidia/Pure decoder and works as happy as can be. If you want to use some of the more complex ffdshow decoder you will need more power but thats it. Overclock it if you can, and try to make it as silent as possible (big heatsink, quiet fans, etc...) and youll be happy.
Yeah after some hunting today seems I can just buy a cheap p4 3ghz chip for it, and a very large heatsink with silent fan, and its away.
Now I ned to find a good PSU, as thats were about 20-30w of power can be wasted, seems tis better to use a smaller PSU pushed to its limits thana large PSU under used, which is the opposite of what I thought it would be, but all the sites seem to say that PSU's are least efficient at low loading.