Tag: Hardware

Another month, another video card it seems like. Sure the gamers get all the love but what about the HTPC crowd? Well it looks like Nvidia has thrown a bone our way with the launch of the 8600 series of cards. 100 % of the video decode can be handled by the latest mid-end cards from Nvidia :). Of course, […]

Auzentech has announced the release of a new sound card the will be based on the Creative X-Fi chipset. This will be the first time that Creative has licensed the technology to another company for creation of a sound card. The new Auzentech card is dubbed the Auzen X-Fi Prelude 7.1 and it is being released in May 2007. It […]

PCPerspective has the very sexy yet expensive HD160XT up for review today. The 7" touchscreen is the reason behind the price increase. Beyond the initial sexiness of the 7" LCD, manufactures have struggled to find a use for this. However, Zalman appears to have solved this issue by bundling software that makes use of the larger then normal real estate. […]

A LOT of people have questions about how to connect their HTPC's to their home theaters, so it's nice to see an article like this with explanations as well as instruction. Of course, if you need further help, we've got some pretty smart guys in the forums that can offer further assistance. CE Pro Today's better PC systems can decode […]

Looks like Western Digital is also releasing new hard drives this month. They announced a line of drives that target the Audio/Video DVR market. The focus is on reliability, power consumption and noise. I'm curious if we'll see these appear on the OEM market. I wonder if the noise claims apply to seek noise or just idle noise.

With a maximum capacity of 160gb, I think Samsung's going about this the wrong way. I'm way more excited about larger capacity flash based drives than these traditional types in regards to silence…not only because of noise, but also size of the drive itself. The Tech Report The new SpinPoint S166 hard drives are regular desktop models with 3.5" form […]

I know this article is probably more technical than we normally like to post here, but I like it because many people assume that if they buy an NVidia NForce motherboard, that naturally an Nvidia video card will provide faster performance. Tom's Hardware has a comparison up that tries to dispell this myth, which is good so that you can […]

See, when you're one of the biggest hardware sites, you can have access to some of the most guarded items this side of the Mona Lisa. Of course, they couldn't test with just the OCUR device, so Dell was kind enough to send them a box. If you're interested in Cable Card, they've got some nice information, including that there's […]

Typically USB HDTV receivers don't grab my attention these days, but with claims of 50 mile reception I tend to take notice. Due to ship on the 9th, Plextor's new device comes with a price tag of 99 dollars and will work with MCE. I will believe it when I see it I guess. I am not sure why it […]

Ok, so yeah it's a slow news day, but I read this & can't stop thinking about the possibilities within an HTPC. With these getting up to 64gb's now, it's feasible that you could use these as the main & only hard drive in your system, making the steps to a fully silent system that much closer. The Tech Report […]