In addition to presuming that media servers will become commonplace enough tomorrow to justify their inclusion in benchmarking today, Intel also seeks to assess media PC performance with workloads that exceed those that are typical, based on our own experience...

• -Digging Into DHCAT
• -DHCAT At Ground Level: Six Scenarios And 24 Assessments

you.. Each scenario consists of from three to five individual assessments, where each assessment seeks to capture some aspect of a system’s media handling capability and performance at the task or tasks involved. Each is named to describe its role in overall...

• -Seeking the Ultimate Intel DHCAT PC
• -Summary And Conclusions

DHCAT offers a better way to evaluate a system's media handling capabilities than other standard benchmarks we've used. That said, we're not enamored of the requirement to emulate a DLNA media server to complete these tests (not part of MCE 2005, and implemented...

somewhat useful. don't address the notebooks' media handling capabilities as well as we might have liked. We had hoped to include a new set of benchmarks from Intel called the "Digital Home Capabilities Assessment Tool" (DHCAT). However, the tests were not...

to handle media-related computing and display tasks with these tests, and see how they score in response. Also noteworthy is that this benchmark indicates that the premium price you’d pay for the Eurocom may be worth it in terms of the media handling power...

If you're wondering whether the X5000 can assess media servers other than NeoLink, the answer is yes. Neodigits said that the X5000 supports UPnP AV and will work with servers such as Windows Media connect, TwonkyVision or WizD. I didn't, however, verify streaming...