DIY HD HTPC Extravaganza - Part 2: Mobos, CPUs, Memory & Power. diy hd htpc extravaganza part2. Part 2 of our build-your-own HTPC series surveys the wide world of motherboards, CPUs, memory and power supplies and comes up with the picks to match our chosen...

• -Foxconn 865M01-G-6LS: Socket 478 Lives On!
• -Aopen I915Gmm-HFS: Premium Pentium M Mobo
• -Conclusion

built around the Intel 945GM and ICH7M-DH chipsets. Retail pricing for this motherboard runs from $100 to $110. Its only noticeable drawback compared to the AMD mobos mentioned in the preceding section is built-in support for HDMI (but you can get that from...

inserting a daughter card into the PCIe x16 slot, so Asus clearly and reasonably assumes that if you want to use the mobo’s HDMI output you also plan to use its onboard graphics (otherwise, you’d take HDMI out through the graphics card). The M2A-VM family...

or so exhibitors and they still fit comfortably into about half the LVCC's Central Hall.. The show marks the official U.S. roll-out of ASUS' Networking product line. This big dog in the mobo and computer market wants to extend its reach into the networking...

client and router in under a minute. I hope to give it a workout myself when I review the GN-A17GU SuperG Access Point shortly. MSI is another mobo maker that wants to flesh out its offerings with networking products. My quick stop at their booth revealed a...