Tag: Hardware

This article is a little bit dated but I just read through it and thought it was kind of interesting.  It describes some of the challanges that were faced when changing over from a can tuner to a silicon tuner.  It’s a little technical, but I found it interesting. Embedded The primary technical differences in tuner design considerations between mobile […]

Inside HW As we had opportunity to test so many motherboards, we can say that this Workstation is one of the most complete motherboards that we have seen so far. Layout of this motherboard is one of the best on the market at this moment, which also applies to passive cooling solution used on this motherboard. Heat pipe system doesn’t […]

While Blu-ray playabck has been around for awhile, the audio portion of the equation has been slow to catch up. Solutions are slowly trickling out in the form of the GeForce 8200 chipset but the stand alone card market has been rather slow to respond. The good news is that ASUS is ready to make amends with their release of […]

There are no reviews out for the Hauppauge HD-PVR yet but here are some peoples experiences with the device so far: GBPVR I’m going to try to figure it out this weekend.

…And there was much rejoicing.  *yea* BrentEvans Geek Tonic The buzz on the HTPC forums continues to build around the Hauppauge HD-PVR – the first consumer-based product for HTPCs to record HD content (encrypted and otherwise) through the "analog hole". I’ve been scouring the web, contacting Hauppauge, and corresponding with the leading HTPC software companies to get the scoop on […]

Inside HW Multimedia computers are definitely the future of modern home systems and it’s quite logical when users attach significance to devices that will go hand in hand with them. One of these devices fell into our hands. We are talking about Logitech diNovo Mini which unites mouse and keyboard and it’s adapted for using it from your sofa. Logitech […]

The folks (folk?) over at Amplio Audio just posted part two of a great write-up covering various topics relating to audio quality in both XP and Vista.  If you’re not familiar with Amplio, they’re developing external firewire soundcards with integrated amplifiers targeted at people who care about quality audio (aka audiophiles…). Amplio Audio In the original Part 1 article I mentioned comments I read in […]

Inside HW …" From the very beginning of computer epoch, opinion was that parallelization and everything connected to computers needs to be scaled to the second power, although it doesn’t matter if you have 1, 2 or even 73 cores. In any case, everything will work properly, unless we are talking about some old version of synthetic benchmark programs that […]

Sometimes some products fail to meet with the expectations their advertised claims purport.  How can a consumer be sure that their purchase lives up to the manufacturer’s/retailer’s hype? Well you do a little research, of course.  In this case hardwaresecrets.com has reviewed a commonly available PSU that some folks might have considered for their next project. This is by no […]

Price, availability, and noise not yet known but there are pictures so this is apparently more than just vaporware. expreview Some HTPC users just don’t want to use a crappy 8400GS or HD 2400 in their highly polished rigs, so here is a chance: Galaxy showed us a low profile 9600GT.