HTPC out of old parts - will this suffice?

[stomp]

So in addition to running Sage on my WHS I'm considering consolidating some of the parts from my old PC's into one unit that I can use for HTPC purposes. Here is what I've got.

Shuttle SK41G
1GB PC3200 Ram (think it should work w/ the Shuttle)
Athlon 1700+ processor
Radeon 9700 Video card
Turtle Beach Santa Cruz Audio Card (if needed)
New Hard Drive needed
HDHomerun for the tuner

So - what do people think? Will it be up to the task to stream w/ the Sage software and potentially surf the net on the TV?

Thanks,

Derek

[Tiki]

I think it will be marginal and you may have problems with glitches in the HDHR recordings. See my post here.

[Greg]

Originally Posted by Tiki

I think it will be marginal and you may have problems with glitches in the HDHR recordings. See my post here.

I just visited your link and saw your equipment list.

I am in the process of selecting components for a SageTV server, however I will be using HD200 extenders, so on-board video should be sufficient for now.

I have selected the X4 630 CPU, as well. I am currently in the process of selecting a motherboard. It's good to here that all is functioning well with your system.

No issues with Windows 7?

Thanks,
Greg

[Chriscic]

The Athlon should be capable of playing the MPEG2 recordings smoothly, but it my experience video always plays back more sluggishly in Sage than outside of it (with the same decoders), so it might or might not make the cut I suspect.

[paulbeers]

I guess a lot depends on what you actually plan to use this for. If it is just for internet surfing, then sure it would be fine. For SD playback it will be fine. For HD playback and h.264 video playback it will not work. Flash videos will most likely suffer as well.

Now, if you want to just use it as a Sage Server and use Extenders for playback it would be fine, but then it sounds like you are already running a Sage Server on your WHS machine.