does not provide sufficient space to fit a PCI card such as the TDM-400p. Figure 2: Soekris Net4801 and Digium TDM-400 card with 2 FXO ports. Note that the card will not fit into the case. Soekris does provide cases that will hold the Net4801 and...

an adapter cable, or cut off the existing game-pad ports and solder on some proper USB sockets. I chose the latter as it is neater. I had an old USB header bracket that fit into a PCI socket on my PC, but if you do not have one you can pick them up on eBay,...

only a few PCI cards will end up fitting into the Hiper’s riser card. The riser card, which lets you install PCI cards at a 90 degree angle, is sold as a separate accesory. The VideoMate TV card was the only one that fit in the case without any problems....

To get an expansion card into the Hiper Media Chassis, riser adapters are included with the case. These allow PCI or AGP expansion cards to be installed at a 90-degree angle. Obviously, no card would fit into the flat case vertically. The riser adapter thus...

• -Let's Get To Work: Putting Together The HTPC

first time in years, I had to factor expansion slots into my motherboard selection to make sure that all my peripherals would fit. I needed enough PCI slots to accommodate at least three TV tuners, a sound card and a video card. Beyond the expansion slots,...

Windows MCE installed. But Mike Baggaley found that HP's z556 is a viable alternative to building your own HTPC.. The riser card assembly (Figure 17) houses the tuners and the wireless NIC in its three available PCI slots. It's a tight fit and there's not...

management mode of the Intel 915M chipset. There are no digital audio outputs, however. The volume of the two loudspeakers on the front fits the bill, but the latest driver does not let you adjust treble and bass separately. That's a shame, because it would...

without some high definition tests. Since the m7580n did not ship with a HD tuner ADS was kind enough to send me their InstantHDTV PCI card (PTV-381-EF). The InstantHDTV tuner requires a Pentium 4, 2.4 GHz processor to ensure good results. The high CPU requirement...