Tool, aka DHCAT, seeks to measure the capabilities of a digital home entertainment platform. These tests are based on how people actually use such machines in the home to deal with all kinds of media and standard playback and usage scenarios. DHCAT is based...

some strange visual artifacts in the same section, again for reasons we can't fathom. To learn how to interpret DHCAT results, see sidebar to this story entitled "Reading the DHCAT Results Report." Given that the same Intel hardware scores 15-16% better when...

• -DHCAT Requirements, Official And Unofficial
• -DHCAT At Ground Level: Six Scenarios And 24 Assessments
• -Digging Into DHCAT
• -We Test Our BYO HTPCs With Intel's DHCAT

for our two current builds, let’s review our results from this summer’s DHCAT testing. Table 6 summarizes the systems involved, and the results we obtained. Initial DHCAT Results Processor Motherboard Original Story DHCAT Intel T7200 Asus N4L-VM We...

• -DHCAT At Ground Level: Six Scenarios, 24 Assessments
• -Seeking the Ultimate Intel DHCAT PC

description of the previous DHCAT tests (2.0) in our October 2007 story: “Seeking the Ultimate DHCAT PC.” For the purposes of this discussion, let’s simply observe that DHCAT 3.0 simplifies things a bit and has been made easier to use and run than ever...