when it comes to building Home Theater PCs. Opting for an MSI Mega180 small form factor PC and an ATI 9600 passively-cooled graphics card this time around offered a quieter and more-stylish HTPC build - albeit with some unpleasant surprises.. Looking back...

of Humphrey Cheung's BlueSniper Rifle How To is here. Boot up your Linux machine and get ready to make some firmware!. Updated August 13, 2005 Way back in March, I gave you plans on how to build your own "BlueSniper" rifle in How To: Building a BlueSniper...

come from. Back in 2003, I was in the middle of building my first home theater PC (HTPC) and had gone to a local store to buy some hardware for the system. When the salesperson found out I was building an HTPC, he went on a long rant about a bad experience...

monitor. Connectivity In addition to DVI and VGA, connectivity is rounded out by a USB 2.0 hub. That's fine, but why the external transformer? It's as big as an egg carton and twice as ugly. For some reason, building the power supply into the back of the...

Building A Budget Media PC, Continued. system builder marathon. We've built low cost ($1,004) and high cost ($3,299) Media Center PCs. Today we discuss our experience with the builds and offer some righteous recommendations.. Working with the Asus...

He likes that the company was founded on the notion of giving people what they want—that’s why Michael Dell sat in his dorm room building custom PCs. “That was the vision he had back at the start of the company and I thought how cool it would be to take...

Although the C-8080 is definitely a prosumer camera, it works more like a digital compact. Zooming is done by using two buttons at the back (using the thumbs) and manual focus by a control at the back as well. So you find you can't use the zoom lens and adjust...

Wanting both DVD playback and CD-RW capabilities, I chose the Samsung DVD + CD/ RW combo drive SM308B ($92), as it was on sale. Next, what about audio? I need to play back 5.1 sounds from my DVDs, and I need a good sound system that can also pass my girlfriend's...

• -How To Build A PC For TV, Continued