Multimedia - Dual Core and RAM?

Question

I'm looking for a multimedia PC to dedicate to music (iTunes and streaming radio), satellite TV recording/delay, and gaming to a lessor degree.

Dual core w/4 GB RAM seems to be max power in the mini chasses out there. I'm more familiar w/old "single core" RAM needs. Is 4 GB enough power allowing for software advancement with the dual core processor?

Thanks much for input!

Answer 1

That is more than enough for streaming multimedia and even gaming. If you want a dedicated multimedia server, you can go for something much cheaper.

Answer 2

A dual core with 4GB RAM would be more than enough power to run a multimedia PC.  If you're really planning on doing a lot of programs at the same time though, I might recommend going for a quad core processor.  Make sure you go Intel though, they currently have a significant advantage over AMD processors

Answer 3

Are you sure 4GB ram?  Im swear 3GB is the highest, anyway even 2GB is more than enough for what you need, if its really 4GB then lucky you lol, thats more than perfect.

But itunes only requires about 200mb of that memory, I run itunes on a 1GB ram and no problems, 2GB is sufficient for satellite recording, and for gaming its the graphics card that makes the difference, again 2GB is enough for games at the moment.

A dual core processor on the other hand is standard now, that just means its faster because a single processor would overheat so two evens out the energy usage and makes your pc faster.

But if its just for music, I would suggest a normal pc with good specs for a 100 or so less and use that for one excellent heavy bassed speakers!   And 5.1 surround sound at least, 2.1 won't do much justice!

Answer 4

u also need a hard.....llok for 320-500gb since ur into multimedia, if u gonna use 4gb of ram, make sure us OS can recognize, it vista 64bit will go 3.(something) and up and 32 bit is less than 3 gb of ram ....good luck