Hardware News Roundup - February 2008

AMD Live! Lives with HEC Compucase

Bolstered by its partnership with ATI, AMD's Live! Home Cinema Platform supports a full range of PC capabilities in a living-room convenient form factor.

Best known for its Compucase brand, manufacturer HEC showed its latest Micro ATX Home Theater chassis along side several power supplies. The case supports up to four half-height expansion cards, a full-sized ATX power supply, VFD display, Bluetooth and WiFi module, and two WiFi antennas.

A semi-complete platform solution, HEC's chassis includes a Microstar MS-7411 motherboard. Optional components such as an ATI Theater 650 Pro and add-in ATI graphics card expand on the system's capabilities.

The AMD Live! Home Cinema Platform compliments other home theater components

WiFi in your Hi-Fi: An optional Bluetooth and WiFi module connects to two external antennas

In addition to cases, HEC had several 80-Plus certified power supplies on display

Thomas Soderstrom
Thomas Soderstrom is a Senior Staff Editor at Tom's Hardware US. He tests and reviews cases, cooling, memory and motherboards.