MicroATX parts

[Asus]

I'm selling my current CPU/Motherboard/RAM from my media center PC to someone and plan to update it.

I'm looking at these parts.
CPU and heatsink
Board
RAM

Think that looks good or any suggestions?

No OCing. Running 24/7. Will be capturing TV from a tuner and video encoding often. And when it's not so hot outside I'd probably fold on it.
It's an Antec Fusion case so height of parts and heatsink is an issue. It won't fit tower heatsinks. MicroATX boards only. I'd like to keep the 120mm Case fan on low for noise so not a lot of air flow.

Already have a 430watt Antec PSU that came with the case. 8500GT passively-cooled video card. Have a Zalmans copper 7000 cooler for the A64 in there atm. Don't think the cooler will help with newer CPUs. The 120mm fan in the case is exhaust and would be <1/2 inch from the scythe heatsink. Probably won't use the 80mm fan that comes with the cooler if I can get away with it.

 

[Krynn72]

Asus, asking for advice on computer hardware? WHAT.

Looks pretty good to me. Ram seems kinda slow, but not to the point that it would matter.

Im not entirely sure on how video encoding works (if it just uses CPU and not so much of the ram), but I know if you're going to be editing video, you may want to get 4 gigs of ram.

 

[Asus]

My TV capture program lets me re-encode the TV shows captured from HD broadcasts (OTA) to other formats that take up less space to keep on the PC. It does that automatically for the most part if I set it up.

I'm not going to be doing a lot of interactive stuff on the PC. I probably will keep video editing to my main PC. On this one it will be mostly playing videos to the TV and have a lot of stuff running in the background (tv capture, encoding, maybe folding) possibly all at the same time. It's mostly CPU and hard drive stress.

Looks pretty good to me. Ram seems kinda slow, but not to the point that it would matter.

Im not entirely sure on how video encoding works (if it just uses CPU and not so much of the ram), but I know if you're going to be editing video, you may want to get 4 gigs of ram.

Officially the board only supports up to DDR2 800. I don't really want to OC and I tried to look just at sticks that use 1.8v to keep power down (not 1.9-2.2v). Not very many of those 1.8 sticks out there. hehe
4GB might be good. Although the PC would only see a bit more than 3gb since I'm sticking with 32bit. I won't have Vista on the PC because the TV program I use only works in XP (32bit). I'll have to check out prices if they are much more. thanks