boosts performance on the HQV tests. The high end media PC received a score of 103, 24 points higher than the score given the low end PC with its Radeon X1250 GPU. Is PC-Based HDMI Ready For Prime Time? We've come to two seemingly unassailable conclusions...

• -Benchmarks And Results Compared
• -System Builder Marathon (Media PCs): Day 3
• -Building A Budget Media PC, Continued
• -Building A Budget Media PC
• -Is PC-Based HDMI Ready For Prime Time? Continued

adapters (high price) 50.00 If you factor in a number of other, readily available freeware programs (which we cover in Table 2 a little later on) what Table 1 suggests is that for a cost of between $85 on the low end, and up to $328 on the high end, you...

can find HD-DVD players in prices that range from $200 at the low end to just under $1,000 at the high end, and movies cost from $20 to $25 for HD-DVD. With Blu-ray, player prices start at around $500 and run to $1,500 or more at the high end, and movies run...

shock protection with its 32 MB of RAM, speedy transfers with its 1394 Firewire interface, good sound on both the high end and the low end, and, maybe best of all, it comes in a small and very sexy package. When you combine all of this, you come up with a product...