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Shuttle HTPC - The XPC SB83G5MAs much as I love small form factor (SFF) boxes (at last count, I've got 4 of them around the house, three Shuttles and a Biostar), they've never seemed terribly practical for HTPC use. The problem isn't horsepower, it's expandability -- you typically have one video card slot, and one PCI slot. Once you drop a tuner in there, you're saying you're going to live without ever adding another tuner card, a better sound card, etc. Even a MicroATX motherboard gives you more breathing room, with three PCI slots. Maybe it's not so bad, though. With dual tuner cards (guess you won't be adding an HD tuner to that), and decent motherboard audio, it could be fairly survivable. Apparently Shuttle...


anti-mega: RSS. Sucks.anti-mega: RSS. Sucks. Chris Heathcote brings up some valid points about the current state of the art of RSS aggregators, something that I heartily agree with. I’ve had reasonbly good luck recently with Syndirella on the PC.  The thing I like most? It’s a “3 pane” aggregator that opens a browser window within the third pane, rather than launching an external browser (you can easily do the latter, of course, with “open in new window” or by double-clicking the entry title in the second pane. This is also the feature that’s missing from NewsGator that’s keeping it from being my tool of choice. The downside of Syndirella is that at the moment, it has no way of organizing the feeds;...


GTR B-01 - Cheap HTPC Case ReviewDan's Data has a detailed review of the GTR B-01 HTPC case, and Dan's fairly impressed. The GTR B-01 case supports a MicroATX motherboard, has a wide aray of front-panel connectors, a backlit front panel display, passable looks and sells for $115 Australian (about $90 US.) If your HTPC must be a thing of beauty replete with RAID arrays and multiple tuner cards, then the GTR B-01 just won't have enough room for the gear you need, much less achieve the requisite ooh-ah factor. For most HTPC purposes, though, the B-01 will cut the mustard. You can take the cheap way out and use a MicroATX board with integrated everything, or you can install your own selection of graphics, sound...


Voodoo Epic HTPC m:112i ReviewLooking for a quiet, fanless HTPC system that delivers good (if not great) gaming performance, dual tuner (standard definition) PVR and MCE 2005. Is $3500 burning a hole in your pocket? If so, the new Epic HTPC m:112i from Voodoo might be just up your alley. PC Magazine has a brief review here. The Epic HTPC m:112i comes with an nVidia GeForce 6800GT graphics card, and this helps the system achieve very good 3D gaming scores on the 1,024-by-768 Doom 3 test and on our Halo test at both this resolution and at 1,600-by-1,200. Like all high-end, single-card graphics solutions we've seen, the Epic HTPC m:112i stutters a little on the Doom 3 test at the higher resolution. So far,...


UNeed X15E HTPC Case ReviewHome Theater PC News has a great review up of the UNeed X15E case -- if you're looking for the $600 HTPC case from hell, this may be just the ticket. The main claim to fame is a built-in 7" 800 x 480 (there's an odd number) LCD screen that you can use as a second monitor for your HTPC. This is by no means an average case and can house just about anything you wish to put in it. Even when loaded out with a high end graphics card and every slot full, all while running at low noise levels this case didn't turn in to a heater for my family room. Heat is one issue that really tends...