WAP = ~$300 Internet Firewall Without WiFi = $50 Without WiFi = $50 High Capacity Enterprise Firewall = ~$300 DIY / $750 Prebuilt One-Time Costs $140-$190 $575-$745 $6,620-$7,070 Per Event Costs N/A $350-$850 $3,000-$4,250 Table...

or more to bring up the program guide; this with a 2.2 GHz CPU! On the system I worked on, the guide would appear in a second or less on what we, at the time, thought was an extravagant 300 MHz CPU. Other commands were also slow. Starting to watch a live TV...

The Intel Fork: Motherboard And CPUs. we build 4 diy hdmi. Despite numerous gotchas and design conflicts, we manage to put together and test four different AMD and Intel CPU-based home theater PCs with HDMI capability. We're exhausted. You enjoy.. Because...

• -Components For The Ideal Media PC, Continued

The HQV Benchmark. system builder marathon. Yesterday we built a low cost ($1,004) Media Center PC. Today we'll do a top of the line $3,300 model and, just for fun, up the price to $4,000 and beyond.. Here, HQV stands for "Hollywood Quality Video". HQV consists...

• -System Builder Marathon (Media PCs): Day 2

DIY NAS Smackdown. diy nas smackdown. Bill Meade compares homebrew NASes using ClarkConnect, Ubuntu and Windows XP Pro and comes up with interesting and surprising results.. If I build the cheapest non-RAID NAS I can, how well will it perform? The purpose...

• -Performance - Read

DIY HD HTPC Extravaganza - Part 3: Tuners, Graphics, & Putting It All Together. diy hd htpc extravaganza part3. In our final installment, Siggy surveys quiet graphics cards, TV tuner cards and products for multimedia control and display. And we finally show...

DIY HD HTPC Extravaganza - Part 2: Mobos, CPUs, Memory & Power. diy hd htpc extravaganza part2. Part 2 of our build-your-own HTPC series surveys the wide world of motherboards, CPUs, memory and power supplies and comes up with the picks to match our chosen...