Best offers
Exclusive Interview: Nvidia's Ian Buck Talks GPGPU
With Snow Leopard and Windows 7 both offering GPGPU capabilities, we wanted to talk to Nvidia's Ian Buck. Not only is he one of the fathers of Brook, the programming language ultimately adopted by AMD/ATI, but the head of Nvidia's CUDA group as well. Read More
-
Beamforming: The Best WiFi You’ve Never Seen
Forget 802.11n Draft 2.0. The future of video-capable WiFi depends on a signal-boosting technique called beamforming. We put the pioneers in this frontier through some real-world testing to find out which technology is going to change the wireless world. Read More
-
Exclusive Interview: Going Three Levels Beyond Kernel Rootkits
Today we have the pleasure of chatting with Joanna Rutkowska, one of the top computing security innovators in the world. She is the founder and CEO of Invisible Things Lab (ITL), a boutique computer security consulting and research firm. Read More
- x box bluray
- generals vista
- best 1.5 tb hard drive
- fastest bluray writer
- media center pc box
- new hard disk 3 tb
- media center gaming
- connecting audio video equipment
- velocity media center
- nvidia 8800 gts connect tv
- pc box for 4 hard disks
- hdtv antenna connections
- pc games hardware enthusiast pc
- vista media center wireless taking disk space
- connecting 2 hdtv antennas
Partners
The Games selection
kids :
Bob
Throw bubbles so as to make the ones that appear in the game disappear. For this, use the Right / Left arrow keys to duck or move about, and the...
|
crazy :
PC Breakdown
What is worst than a Fatal Error occuring during a game you did not save? Unleash your rage at your PC in this game. Blow it to pieces, it feels so...
|
Sponsored links
Velocity Micro releases Blu-ray Media Center PC box
Next newsRichmond (WA) - Enthusiast PC maker chimed in the general Vista launch activities with one of the more interesting hardware products. The company released, according to our knowledge, the first Vista-based set-top media center PCs with an optional Blu-ray writer. Of course, these PCs don't come cheap. Be prepared to spend about $3000.
If you are not convinced that shelling out about $1000 for a basic media center PC with a DVD drive does not make sense in a time where everything circles around high-def, Velocity Micro offers another option. The firm's new "CineMagix" PCs come with a styling that resembles high-end audio/video equipment and can be ordered with a Blu-ray writer.
The addition of a Blu-ray drive makes this PC especially interesting, as high-definition drives aren't yet officially supported by Intel's and AMD's entertainment PC platforms. The base price of the CineMagix series is $1700 and includes and AMD X2 dual-core processor, 1 GB of memory, a 256 MB graphics card with HDCP chip, 250 GB hard drive storage and a DVD burner. A Lite-On 2 X Blu-ray writer adds $625, which brings the price of the systems to just over $2300. You can go hardware crazy, upgrade the processor, the memory to 4 GB, faster graphics and the storage space to 1.5 TB - and end up with a price tag of nearly $5000.
If you still have some room to play with, you can opt for a Core 2 Duo equipped system, which starts at about $2820 for the basic Blu-ray system and extends to an enthusiast PC with a quad-core CPU, an Nvidia 8800 GTS graphics card, dual TV tuners, an HDTV antenna, high-end speakers, 3 TB hard disk space and wireless connectivity for close to $7000.
We gather from the Velocity Micro configuration sheet that a sensibly equipped media center PC with gaming capability should cost around $3000.
Source : Tom's Hardware US