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Playback of DVD, WMV, DivX and other installed video formats possible
yes
yes
DVD burner and player
Yes, with slimline drive
Yes, with slimline drive
Audio outs
7.1 sound
5.1 sound
Video outs
S-Video, composite, HDTV components on motherboard
S-Video, composite on TV tuner card
Unusable System Components
Onboard components that the Biostar board lacks
In selecting the motherboard, we ran into some very weird and funny problems. Probably one of the most widespread was the lack of system components such as integrated graphics. In a normal mini-case or a desktop, that is hardly ever a major problem, because usually another graphics card is used.
But that is not an option in the Hiper Media Chassis. Only one expansion card fits into this case. In our case, it should be a TV tuner. We had a choice of the following motherboards:
