The HTPC has been evolving since the start of its birth. Many efforts have been made to make it most economical and affordable as well as more attractive and multifunction. The modern HTPC system is small and easy to handle. I was browsing about the new HTPC cases and I came across a review about the Lian Li PC-Q11 Mini-ITX Case. It is an amazing product that comes out of the crowd due to its striking features. It is very different from the previous versions and is more capacious.
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Do you like this cool and smooth look of great multi-disk arrays from Fractal Design R2 series? Aren’t you still sure about getting one? If you still need more information about this case now thanks to bit-tech you may read a six pages long detailed review. They have included a lot of detailed photos and of course described it with every detail.
Here it a long awaited part 2 of our recommended hardware for building your own silent Full HD Media Center computer. As described in part 1 of this post, to all hardware I will use a three point scale:
- 2 – it may be really disturbing in some cases
- 1 – it is more silent than 2
- 0 – component is totally silent
Components that will be in our setup are: motherboard + cpu, storage, computer chassis, psu, remote control, CD/DVD/Blue Ray player, TV Tuner and operating system. In this part we will recommend you best motherboard and storage. So here are our recommendations.
Continue to ‘Building Silent 1080p Full HD Media Center HTPC. Part 2.’
If you want to build your own HTPC and you are still not sure about it’s components, you are in the right place. Nowadays when you build your own media center most probably you will demand from it at last these points:
- To be silent (do not disturb you in everyday life and when you watch movies)
- To look elegant or to be totally hidden (mounted on back of your TV)
- To be capable to play Full HD movies (1080p resolution)
Continue to ‘Building Silent 1080p Full HD Media Center HTPC. Part 1.’
Sapphire have released a new IPC-AM3DD785G ITX motherboard with AMD socket AM3 stand. Their mini motherboard support DDR3 memory and AMD CPUs rated up to 65W TDP. This motherboard is in Mini-ITX small form factor – but it is not worse from most of “big” motherboard featuring dual DDR3 memory slots and a PCI-Express 16-lane expansion slot.
On last CES 2010 there were a lot of great gadgets. But in the same time another expo take place. It is AVN 2010 (Adult Entertainment Expo). It would not be interesting according to topic of this website if it would not be related to Mini-ITX. Fortunately it is related so now there will be a little more about Bad Girls…
A lot of Mini-ITX fans are wondering if this motherboard can run fanless? There were some tests made by many motherboard reviewers. But all they did was disconnecting power from working motherboard… With such tries the CPU temperature got dangerous values…
New beautiful enclosure made especially for Mini-ITX htpc system hits first stores. It can be bought online and ordered in wholesale from first retailers. OrigenAE M10 mini itx chassis based on the ITX mini motherboard form factor have been announced to be launched on July 03/2009 and now it is available for customers.
Continue to ‘OrigenAE M10 Mini-ITX HTPC enclosure hits first stores!’
Today ZOTAC have unleashed a new nettop powered by mini motherboard with NVIDIA ION platform and Single (MAG HD-NS01) or Dual Core (MAG HD-ND01) Atom processor. They call this mini computer “Everywhere PC”. It is as small as 186mm x 189mm x 38mm and have great modern look. This sexy baby is probably powered by Zotac IONITX Mini-ITX motherboards (it is not clearly stated anywhere but size of this case suggest that only this motherboard could fit). You may put it flat on surface (like a desktop), put on attached stand (micro tower?) or attach it with VESA mount to you TV or monitor.
Continue to ‘New mini computer from ZOTAC powered by IONITX’
VIA VB8003 – Mini-ITX Nano Board. I have been writing about this awesome mini motherboard already (right here), but there is much more information available today.
Here is a quick look:
