Tag: Hardware

From firingsquad.com comes an interesting review of the AMD/ATI 780G IGP. I realize that the main premise of the article is performance but it brings up two capabilities that the 780G chipset allows builders to employ that might be useful for the HTPCer: As the article points out, the family HTPC might serve mom and dad just fine as a […]

And the cost of HD HTPC entry gets cheaper…  Unfortunately, still only SPDIF audio (no multi-channel HD) via HDMI though.  Have to wait for the 8200 for that bit. Tom’s Hardware With today’s introduction of its new 780G chipset, AMD is finally enabling users to build an HTPC or multimedia computer for HDTV, HD-DVD or Blu-ray playback that doesn’t require an add-in […]

AMD 780 Series Gives Mainstream PCs an Innovation Overhaul: Robust 3D Gaming, Ultimate Blu-ray™ Experience and Energy Efficiency AMD Delivers DirectX10 Motherboard GPU   HANOVER, Germany (CeBIT 2008)-March 4, 2008-AMD (NYSE: AMD) today announced the availability of the industry’s most advanced motherboard GPU, the AMD 780 Series, delivering a rich computing experience for casual gamers and multimedia enthusiasts as the […]

Asus is set to add some very HTPC friendly sound cards equipped with HDMI! Lots of juicy info in the article but it really doesn’t say if it will play nice with Blu-ray discs. TG Daily After four hours of meetings with different departments, we walked out thoroughly impressed with the effort that Asus is making on all fronts. Without […]

While they didn’t really do multimedia benchmarks this is still going to be a nice board in my opinion. Tweaktown NVIDIA’s main focus here with the new GeForce 8200 is Hybrid SLI. This is a new design that has been thought up to combine the power of a discrete graphics card with the extra unused power of the onboard GPU. […]

DigitTimes Nvidia is planning to launch its first GeForce 9 series graphics chip, the GeForce 9600 GT (G94), for the mid-range market on February 21, according to sources at graphics card makers. The pertinant details include a tidbit about hardware acceleration for the secondary video stream in PiP enabled Blu-ray and HD DVD titles: The 9600 GT adopts a 65nm […]

Hrm.. Lothar was shy too. Good thing he isn’t shy in his reviews, because if they were like his news submissions we would have three pics and the specifications from the product page. Viper Lair The OnAir USB HDTV-GT tuner supports both Digital (with a built-in ATSC decoder) and Analog OTA signals. External video-based devices as mentioned earlier, as well […]

Phoronix took a swing at the Antec Fusion Black 430 under Linux.  They liked it.  So do I.  Stay tuned for my review. Phoronix As you can see, this is an amazing case, but what you might not see, is that it has a not so amazing price tag of $199 USD to match. However, if you are looking for […]