Nope, works great, I also have a 4670 in it which seemed to help alot with responsiveness in the menus.
I think depending on what video card you use you can use the video card to decode the Freeview video? ie 5450 and other newer cards, making the CPU you use not matter so much. Someone else might be able to expand on that.
I think the graphics card is more important than the CPU. Your E6300 will be more than adequate, you just need to get a graphics card than can handle the HD video (most new ones will be perfectly sufficient).
I reckon a good GFX card with HD capable decoding hardware will do as when I run my HD content tv or HD video I sometimes minimized my WMC in Win7 and the cpu is hardly operating as GPU is doing the hard work. Lots of fast ram do help too and a fast hard drive.
My cpu is core 2 duo and does fine with a 8500GT card with two Hauppauge hvr 3000 cards running recording and watching simultaneously without lag.
I did say earlier that the 8500GT did the job great but if you are thinking of running also games there then a newer card will do you better. Im thinking about getting this card for the lounge HTPC http://www.nvidia.com/object/product-geforce-gt-430-us.html My father in law have this card and the image is heaps better than mine and does not require extra power from psu and has HDMI and half the size for small HTPC cases. And put my old 9600GSO 768mb for the gaming HTPC in the bedroom.
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