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Mini-ITX Gaming HTPC: building the ultimate powerhouse
Introduction What’s good about a gaming rig is that it usually functions as a HTPC pretty much perfectly. The downside is the size, heat production and possibly noise issues of a gaming rig in comparison to an HTPC; so I set out on a journey to bring the best of both worlds together! Today we’re…
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Eminent EM 7280 RT3 HD media player 320GB
Introduction While Microsoft and Nintendo might be hoping that their next generation of home consols will ultimately become our HTPC, media centres of the future, for now the trend is for media players like the one I’m looking at today. The Eminent RT3 is an HD video, music and image player with built in web…
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Sapphire Edge Mini PC
Introduction Well here’s an alternative to the HTPC and lounge media center, possibly the smallest full scale PC around: the Sapphire Edge Mini PC. It’s about the size of a DVD case and comes packing HDMI out, dual core atom CPU, a 512 MB nVidia ION 2 GPU, 2GB of RAM, 250GB of storage and…
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AC Ryan Playon!HD2 Media Player
Introduction It’s no secret that I was pretty pleased with how the original Playon!HD media player performed, so I was quite excited to check out the revamped 1TB version. This 2.0 iteration has an improved GUI, a new Gigabit ethernet port, USB 3.0, an “EZ” drive slot and some extra formats in the official supported…