review features our first use of a new benchmarking tool. Built and provided by Intel, the Digital Home Capabilities Assessment Tool, aka DHCAT, seeks to measure the capabilities of a digital home entertainment platform. These tests are based on how people...

Asus N4L-VM We build four HDMI-based HTPCs Intel T7600 Asus N4L-VM We build four HDMI-based HTPCs AMD 4800+ Asus M2A-VM We build four HDMI-based HTPCs AMD 6000+ Asus M2A-VM We build four HDMI-based HTPCs AMD 4600+ Asus M2A-VM HDMI System Builder Marathon...

• -DHCAT Results For Recent Builds
• -What Happens When Benchmarks Contradict?
• -Digging Into DHCAT
• -Concluding Postscript

written about the Intel Digital Home Capabilities Assessment Tool, aka DHCAT, in several recent stories, most notably on June 11 in We Test Our BYO HTPC’s With Intel’s DHCAT. In conducting that review and after subsequent analysis, we were stunned to observe...

• -DHCAT Results

We Build 4 HDMI-Based HTPCs. 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.. The impetus for...

is also in the planning stages. Second Attempt: Alternative HTPC Based On The AMD64 Processor DIY HTPC, second try: This time with an AMD Athlon64 processor Once we saw that our pipe dream with the Intel mobile processor and the AOpen board was not all we'd...