Tag: Hardware

PVRWire has taken the time to give you a quick write up of how to build a cheap HTPC. Also contained in their article is a link to another such article. If cheap isn't your thing, Matt has a similar write up on preparing yourself for a HD HTPC. From the article: Matt's article: Processor: AMD Athlon 64 3000+ because […]

Courtesty of Elite Bastards, I present to you a review Auzentech's X-Meridian 7.1 sound card. There site is horribly slow for me today, I think it is my connection. So here is the link 🙂 and a quote from the first page. From the article: As per Bluegears' b-Enspirer part which we reviewed just last week, Auzentech's X-Meridian has at […]

In a day sure to be dominated by CES product release news, Bit-Tech goes against the norm & releases their review of the new Zalman HD135 HTPC case. So how do they like it compared to how SilentPCReview did (or should I say, didn't?) The HD135 is an incredible little case, with very little to fault about it. Zalman has […]

LAS VEGAS–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Hauppauge Digital, Inc., the world’s leading developer and manufacturer of analog and digital video, TV, and data broadcast receiver products for personal computers, has launched a line of four new TV tuner products specifically designed to support Microsoft’s Vista Media Center and to take full advantage of Vista’s exciting TV features. After five years in development, the Windows […]

There are at least a couple of Myth users among us, so I thought I would post up this Nvidia/ATI image quality comparison from Phoronix. They take a look at a couple of DVDs and game tests to see who comes out the victor. It appears that both cards perform very closely to each other with Nvidia eaking out a […]

Gizmodo has a very quick blurb about the 360's upcoming new features. According to the leak, you can expect VOD, IPTV, and DVR functionality. Now that AT&T will own all of us, I wonder if IPTV will be a deal through them, or something else MS has cooked up. Read the article here:  The leak says Microsoft's IPTV services will […]

As evident by an active forum discussion going on, its about time we see some HD DVD lovin on the desktop\HTPC. Considering Sony has had its burner available for the PC market for quite awhile, its somewhat surprising to see Toshiba lag behind. Of course, there are more then a few of us that will be waiting for the dual […]

I love technology. Who, 5 years ago, would have ever thought we'd have 1 friggin terabyte on a single hard drive. Absolutely amazing. And only $400! Just hope you can afford 2, because I wouldn't want that 1 drive to go down & lose 1,000,000mb of data! (and yes, I know that's not exact :-P) The Deskstar 7K1000 will cost […]