Sample Configurations
Contents
- 1. Wishful Thinking? Silent Home PC For TV, DVD, Recording And Internet Connectivity
- 2. Selection Of HTPC Components
- 3. Memory, Hard Drive And Burner
- 4. Let's Get To Work: Putting Together The HTPC
- 5. Assembling The HTPC, Continued
- 6. Assembling The HTPC, Continued
- 7. Problems With The Serial ATA Interface: The Hard Drive Is Only Good For The Recycling Bin
- 8. Software Installation
- 9. Last Fine-tuning
- 10. Functional Test In Stress Test
- 11. Stress Test, Continued
- 12. For The Pentium M - Mission Impossible At First
- 13. Waiting For An Update
- 14. Assembling The Second System
- 15. Better Heat Dissipation In The Stress Test
- 16. Sample Configurations
- 17. Unusable System Components, Continued
- 18. Unusable System Components, Continued
- 19. Conclusion
16. Sample Configurations
| Functions | Intel Pentium M | AMD Athlon64 |
|---|---|---|
| HTPC case | Hiper Media Chassis | Hiper Media Chassis |
| MicroATX motherboard | AOpen i915GMm HFS | AOpen s760GX-M |
| TV tuner (analog / DVB-T) | AverTV Hybrid +FM | VideoMate DVB-T300 |
| Recording of TV programs onto hard drive possible | yes | yes |
| 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:
| Manufacturer | Model | Socket type | CPU |
|---|---|---|---|
| Asus | P5GD1-VM | 775 | Intel P4 Prescott |
| Asus | K8S-MX | 754 | AMD Athlon64 |
| Asrock | K8Upgrade-760GX | 754 | AMD Athlon64 |
| Biostar | K8NHA-M | 754 | AMD Athlon64 |
| Foxconn | 865M | 478 | Intel P4/Celeron |
The Biostar motherboard has no onboard graphics
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