Silverstone Technology was founded in 2003 and has been building cases specifically for the home theater PC (HTPC) market since almost the very beginning. Today, Silverstone produces HTPC cases across four different lines, including the “mainstream” Grandia line. I recently had the opportunity to spend some time with the most recent addition to the Grandia lineup, the GD06. With room […]
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The Lian-Li PC-TU200 is getting another run around the block, this time by our friends over at ThinkComputers. The PC-TU200 may be a mini-ITX case, but seeing it in video gives some context to just how large the case is. There is no doubt that this is a slick looking case, but with space for 4 hard drives and a full-height […]
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Hopefully this new years news is a sign of things to come. Tranquil PC has recently announced a new HTPC design, the MMC-12 Media Center. The system measures in at just 1.5 inches thick and packing a core i3 processor, 4 gigs of ram, 80 GB hard drive, running Windows 7 home premium. Not a bad package if you ask me, […]
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ASRock has been a solid supporter of AMD CPUs over the last couple of years as evidenced by their high-end Fatality-branded motherboards. ASRock has also been a solid supporter of the Mini-ITX format. The A75M-ITX brings AMD and Mini-ITX together in one compact package. The lack of overclocking support shouldn’t be much of an issue for anyone looking for an […]
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It’s only been a week since John posted his review of the Fractal Design Arc Midi case, but if you are looking for a second opinion, our friends over at Legit Reviews have posted a review of their own. They seem to have picked up on many of the same pros and cons that John focused in on. They also […]
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Zotac makes a number of mini-ITX motherboards and has established a reputation for stacking a lot features on their little boards. They make two different Z68 Mini-ITX boards, the Z68ITX-A-E, for which we saw a review a while back, and the Z68ITX-B-E. The Z68ITX-B-E adds a couple of different features, in particular the built-in discrete Nvidia Geforce GT430 GPU. Intel has […]
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When Seagate launched their new 1TB-per-platter hard drives back in early November, Seagate also announced that they were doing away with the sub-7200 rpm Barracuda Green hard drive line. Their point at the time was that their high areal density drives could achieve comparable noise levels and power consumption levels even while running at 7200 rpm, negating the need for […]
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We don’t usually pay much attention to high-end GPU releases here at Missing Remote. High-end GPUs are typically overkill for an HTPC unless your specific goal is to build a gaming-grade HTPC. However, the release of the AMD Radeon HD 7970 bears a little extra attention for a couple of reasons. The 7970 not only marks the introduction of a […]
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We reviewed the Fractal Design Array R2 back in September and concluded that, despite lacking an optical drive bay, it was a fine HTPC and media server case, eliminating the need for a separate, stand-alone NAS. Of course, the Array R2 would make a fine NAS case in its own right, which is how the folks at LanOC approached the […]
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Unfortunately, most of us do not have the luxury of a wired network at home, forcing us to rely on wireless networking. However, if your home theater stack includes networkable devices that do not support wireless or lack the wireless hardware to take full advantage of that hot new router you just bought, then a media bridge might be the most […]
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