If you’ve been drooling over the feature rich Z68 platform from Intel but were waiting for a smaller board, Zotac’s got you covered. As far as I know this is the only mini-itx board available today. Take one look at the company’s Z68ITX, and it’s easy to see why. This motherboard is small enough to fit inside shoebox-sized enclosures yet […]
Read moreNot a bad week of releases with a fair number of old films released on BD, such as the classic Boyz N the Hood and Amelie, sprinkled in with some new comedies such as Peep World and Take Me Home Tonight–which was decently amusing assuming you can stand Topher Grace for that long. Oh, and if you haven’t had enough […]
Read moreJust did the drawing for the Fractal Designs Define R3 Chassis and the winner is RKWRIGHT! RKWright, you should have received an e-mail from me by now and have 48 hours to get in touch with me. Thanks to everyone who participated and good luck with our future contests!
Read moreNo word on price on this passively cooled Atom system, but the form factor looks pretty good. The D525 processor is not the most powerful in the world, but these guys like it in spite of it. The Arctic Cooling MC001-BD Entertainment Center is built around the Intel ATOM D525 processor, which is a dual core design which operates at […]
Read moreI’m hoping most of you reading this are familiar with MissingRemote.com, we are a website that caters to most of the folks on AVS here, and we do blogs, reviews, news and the like. Thanks to our readers we have been growing lately and have the opportunity for someone who is interested in writing for the website. This is a […]
Read moreAre you looking to spend $1000 on an OEM SFF HTPC? Yeah, me neither. BUT, for those of you that are ASRock is looking to help you out. Armed with an Intel Core i5 CPU and sandy bridge platform, but lacking an SSD, this unit has it’s pros and cons. As far as connectors goes, we were really impressed at […]
Read moreI love Audioholics’ roundup of receivers and devices, and this time up they are looking at some of the best receivers $600 can buy! There are a few universals at this price point. You’ll find that all the receivers have discrete amps, and all manufacturers rate their amps with the more robust 20Hz to 20kHz measurement. All of the included […]
Read moreWe have a lot of SSD users here as they’re ideal for an HTPC, so I thought this news was relevant. Keep in mind there’s no official report from Intel yet on just how serious/widespread this issue is, but just another reminder of why you should always have backups. “Be wary of the new Intel SSD 320 series. Currently, there’s […]
Read moreIf one mini-ITX motherboard review wasn’t enough, Anandtech offers up three for your liking. These however are of the AMD Fusion variety and are put up against each other on a range of testing, not just for HTPC. Despite what you could buy many years ago for more than a thousand dollars, you can now get the same performance in […]
Read moreDecent mini-ITX offering for your HTPC build. With the Intel Z68 chipset launch well under way, ZOTAC sent us their take on the Intel Z68 in mini-ITX format, the Z68-ITX WiFi, one of two Z68-based mini-ITX motherboards from ZOTAC that will hit store shelves very soon. The two are differentiated by expansion possibilities, with the “Supreme” version using laptop-part expansion […]
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