Your thoughts on my upgrade.

[Sputnik]

So the upgrade is under way, The mother board is ordered but, would like some opinions on the rest.

so here goes.

J & W 790GX Extreme (ordered)

AMD Phenom II 940
4Gb(2x2Gb) ram 800mhz (corsair,crucial,OCZ I have not decided yet)
Dual DVB-T (Terratec Cinergy 2400i DT or Compro VideoMate E700)

1GB Sapphire HD 3450 HM (to use in crossfire with onboard GPU)

Your thoughts please.

[Hawker1986]

Well it looks ok, but what are you planning on doing with it? If its gaming then your going to want a lot more graphics power than that.

Hawker

[Pob255]

What's it going in?
All told the onboard crossfire is a nice idea in theory, on paper, but actually doesn't look that good in real life.
if gameing you'd be better off with a single better card, if not gameing it's not needed.
oh and 1gb of memory on a gpu that weak is also very pointless.

[saltynay]

A quad core won't get fully utilised on a htpc in general as you are not using multi-threaded high performance applications. Unless you will be media editing aswell
AM3 should be out very soon which is worth consideration. AM3 processors are backwards compatible with AM2/ AM2+ mobos but AM2/AM2+ processors are not compatible with AM3 motherboards.
The graphics card is ancient but should be good enough for your htpc plans although I would step up to a 4650 personally.

[Sputnik]

I will drop the graphics card then and just use the onboard graphics alone.

[PwnDirect]

What's it going in?
All told the onboard crossfire is a nice idea in theory, on paper, but actually doesn't look that good in real life.
if gameing you'd be better off with a single better card, if not gameing it's not needed.
oh and 1gb of memory on a gpu that weak is also very pointless.

Sums it up really