Tag: Hardware

It is good to see competition heat up in the Blu-ray drive market. Benchmark Reviews has their take on ASUS’ Blu-ray drive. BMR The HD-DVD and Blu-ray Disc format war is finally over. Now that Toshiba and Mircosoft have both jumped ship on HD-DVD, for the first time in at least a dozen introduced media types Sony finally has its […]

InsideHW Asus M3N-HT Deluxe Mempipe is one of the first motherboards based on new nForce 780A chipset and it should be adequate competitor to great AMD 780G chipset and to arriving 790GX.Asus offers, as many times before, exceptional product with quality design and great voltage unit. Rich bundle includes heatpipe memory cooler, additional fan for voltage unit and many more […]

Inside HW Very often short descriptions in manufacturer manuals for displays are: exceptional design and excellent performances which is the case with Samsung T220. If some monitor looks nice we can see that by ourselves when we take it out from the packaging, but when it comes to other manufacturer’s promise (about performances) we need to check them by ourselves […]

In what appears to be a post written by me (notice the grammer), Ben, from EngadgetHD, asked AMD if they had planned to release a tuning resolver for the digital cable tuners. The answer, of course, was a non-answer but they did mention they are talking to the right people to possibly make this happen. Corporate speak for we need […]

Hardwaresecrets.com bring us their take on the Enermax PRO82+ 525w PSU.  Compared to the new 1kw monsters out there a 525 watter looks kind of scrawny.  Nonetheless, this is a highly favorable review of the PRO82+ but does Joe Q. HTPCer really even need 525 watts? Hardware Secrets Wow! What a power supply! We could not only deliver its labeled […]

Building an HTPC is one of those endeavors which can be begun by basing your build upon your “must have” internal components and finding a case to house your creation in…or…picking out the “perfect” HTPC enclosure and then seeking out components that will fit that case.  Either way one might initially attack their project a suitable result should occur. If […]

Want to add a little pizzazz to your HTPC?  Maybe it’s time to rethink adding an LCD display to your case.  In the past, it seems, that LCDs provoked more hassle than dazzle for the builder.  The folks at bit-tech.net believe that Matrix Orbital may have broken the “shoddy software” barrier and given the LCD display a new lease on […]

Ever wondered how your HTPC AMD CPU stacks up in comparison to others in the family when it comes to power consumption?  Just how much money does it cost to run it 24/7?  Tom’s Hardware has a pretty indepth article comparing 35 different AMD CPUs.  Hopefully they compare Intel CPUs next. Tom’s Hardware The amount of electricity a computer needs […]

Digitimes has the scoop on AMD’s newer Phenom line-up. Some tidbits of interest for the HTPC crowd include information about new ‘e’ series lower-wattage CPUs coming out, plus, sadly, a slight delay for the Phenom X4 9150e which is the buzzworthy Phenom aimed right at HTPC uses. Digitimes The company will begin production and take orders for the low-power Phenom X4 9350e (Agena) in […]

ATI quietly slipped an update for the OCUR tuners out today. The ATI TV Wonder Digital Cable Tuner Firmware Update Version 1.17.1 has a group of fixes including: ‘Multiple OCUR could have the same IP address’ and ‘No TV Signal when tuning twice on the same channel.’ So it sounds worthwhile to update. Also the release notes mention that you […]