Quick question - building up a new HTPC, which I want to be as quiet as possible. Board is a Z77 Asus, and CPU is an i3-3220T, running Windows 7 Pro x64 and primary media consumption program is ...

First let's talk about criteria.<BR><BR>Major criteria I can think of are: <BR>offload codec support (e.g. h.264 support? VC-1?)<BR>offload performance (e.g. 10% cpu during decode, or %50?)<BR>power ...

HTPC enthusiasts and anyone else who might be interested in a low profile GeForce RTX 40 series graphics card would have needed to switch gears to a 'Plan B' for their compact builds, because such a ...

Asrock's latest mini PC certainly is an exciting addition to the company's lineup, delivering even more CPU performance thanks to the adoption of Intel's Sandy Bridge processors. The flagship 252B ...

Performance Summary: There are number of performance comparisons we need to make while summarizing the benchmarks scores from this article. If we compare the two GeForce 9300-based motherboards we ...

December 8, 2010 | ASRock now has a decent history of producing a range of HTPC nettops. Today they up the ante with the ION 3D 152B that comes with 3D support via NVIDIA 3DTV Play and the Next-Gen ...

If you haven't yet decided on the perfect HTPC graphics card, the decision might just have become a whole lot harder as Taiwan's MSI International is rolling out five media-PC graphics cards all at ...

SiSoftware Sandra 2001 Media Transcode might be a synthetic test, but it is a great way to determine system speed beyond memory and CPU interaction. Most video cameras save videos in a proprietary ...

I've always been a fan of the ASRock HTPC line, but they've been something that I've admired from a distance and never really had the opportunity to have a look at closely. That was until last year ...

Windows/OS X/Linux: If you've built the media center of your dreams and download your entertainment, you probably want an easy way to manage it all from another computer or when you're not home. HTPC ...