I'm thinking about getting a new Dell for HDTV recording/playback. Which of these processors would you choose? I'd like to go with E2200, but I do not want to risk getting something which is underpowered. I may want to record one HDTV program, while watching a second recorded HDTV program.

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R5.5; PVR-250; FX5200; Dell 4300 with Intel Pentium 4 (1.5 GHz);
BIOS Revision A02; 512MB RAM; 500GB PATA HDD

Any of those will have pleanty of power for hd.

You may want to consider building you own system though. It would give you more options.

Remember with HD Tuners thee signal is already encoded I/O is a bigger problem then CPU when recording.

Thanks for the input. I really appreciate it.

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R5.5; PVR-250; FX5200; Dell 4300 with Intel Pentium 4 (1.5 GHz);
BIOS Revision A02; 512MB RAM; 500GB PATA HDD