Storage - Using a SSD is great because of its low latency and good speeds, but although that makes read speeds faster than transitional hard drives I believe they are trying to improve on write speeds. Although getting up in storage to that level you just mentioned must be expensive. If you are willing to pay for it that's fine, although I personally would go along with enough storage to start the important things off quickly (OS and programs), while using another hard drive to store all of the larger files (videos and such). If needed, you can even look into RAID for performance and redundancy, and even use a motherboard that supports RAID directly (there are hardware PCI and Windows 7 software alternatives).
Processor - Certainly something good enough to handle HD video. Nothing big, but nothing small either.
RAM - Out of all the things, this is one of the things you should be able to upgrade the easiest. 4GB is common enough.
Sound - Look into how loud the compute is going to be. I liked my computer case because it had a large fan on the side that could do the same as a small fan but quieter. Even my graphics card uses silent pipe technology (it doesn't even have a fan!). Hard drives are certainly going to be a major noise maker, but once your processor is under load you will certainly hear the heatsink fan work loudly depending on what one you choose to install (assuming you get one other than the stock one).
Proxy - Good luck with that. It is really difficult in my experience to get an anonymous proxy that is reliable in one way or another, although I doubt speed is important as long as pages load fast enough. I believe there are some pretty good subscription based proxies though, that can annoymise your entire line.
Tuner and remote - I wonder what kind of remote control it will be. Since using it might be common, you'll have to look at reviews for the products first. It would have to be comfortable and useful, but also whether it connects using bluetooth or infrared might also be important.
Processor - Certainly something good enough to handle HD video. Nothing big, but nothing small either.
RAM - Out of all the things, this is one of the things you should be able to upgrade the easiest. 4GB is common enough.
Sound - Look into how loud the compute is going to be. I liked my computer case because it had a large fan on the side that could do the same as a small fan but quieter. Even my graphics card uses silent pipe technology (it doesn't even have a fan!). Hard drives are certainly going to be a major noise maker, but once your processor is under load you will certainly hear the heatsink fan work loudly depending on what one you choose to install (assuming you get one other than the stock one).
Proxy - Good luck with that. It is really difficult in my experience to get an anonymous proxy that is reliable in one way or another, although I doubt speed is important as long as pages load fast enough. I believe there are some pretty good subscription based proxies though, that can annoymise your entire line.
Tuner and remote - I wonder what kind of remote control it will be. Since using it might be common, you'll have to look at reviews for the products first. It would have to be comfortable and useful, but also whether it connects using bluetooth or infrared might also be important.
your existing system is still a very viable system; maybe not on the cutting edge today but certainly no throw away & as such I would no longer advise the $500 AMD build as a replacement for what you have!
