HDMI PC Lessons Learned. 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.. To some extent during...

• -Sidebar: HDMI, HDCP Gotchas And Workarounds, Continued
• -Reality Confronts The Ideal
• -Components For The Ideal Media PC, Continued
• -Conclusions And Recommendations
• -The AMD Fork: Motherboard And CPUs
• -We Build 4 HDMI-Based HTPCs
• -How (And What) We Tested

actually leads to our second conclusion from the recent sequences of media center PC builds for both the DIY HDMI article and this series - namely, if you want to build a fast, capable media PC, there's no compelling reason to buy HDMI gear just yet. However,...

it work, and then to provide benchmark data from that test battery for these System Builder Marathon systems, as well as for the system in our previous DIY HDMI PC story. Once the formal benchmarking was completed, we viewed HDTV broadcasts using the AVerMedia...