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BrazosTweaker: AMD Brazos E350 tweaker
BrazosTweaker is an excellent utility for tweaking the power states of AMD’s Brazos CPU’s. FusionTweaker is a sister utility for Llano.
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Motorola NYXBoard
Well, a big congratulations to pulse-eight and royal mail – I ordered a motorola NYXBoard QWERTY Remote control on Monday, and 21 hours later it arrived at my door – and all that for free postage!
0Looking beyond the boxee remote-keyboard
For a long time I’ve been searching for the ideal HTPC remote control. I want a fairly standard remote, but with a QWERTY keyboard on the back, or inside a flip/slide out part. I’ve been tracking the options in , and eventually ordered myself a Boxee remote a few months back. The boxee is an… Read more »
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A new Media Server
As I mentioned recently, I am for a new residence. Having already experimented successfully with dvblink, I decided it was time to move my TV cards from my HTPC to my server and hand the duty of recording, transcoding and storing TV to the server.
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Planning a second generation home media setup
In the coming months I will be buying a new property, and to go with my new home, I’ve been reading up lots on how I might integrate a new home media setup. In recent months several exciting new options have become available, which finally makes the sort of setup I have always desired a… Read more »
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Dual PCI-E Mini-ITX set-top HTPC
This is a quick follow up to a previous post about with the details of a potential system I’m hoping to build for a bedroom.
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Comparison of HTPC GPU’s
Anandtech has an excellent article comparing 4 bottom end GPU’s for HTPC’s. The article is extensive and does a good job of explaining issues of framerate timing, cadence detection, telecining and pulldown as well as comparing the 4 GPU’s. As we don’t believe in reinventing the wheel – we recommend anyone building a HTPC setup… Read more »
0Fusion E-450 coming
SemiAccurate has news that AMD are to imminently release a new Zacate member of the Brazos platform. According to previous information on Anandtech and Hexus the E-450 is clocked at 1.65GHz (up from 1.60GHz) and has graphics clocked at 600MHz (up from 500MHz). It will also reportedly support higher speeds of DDR3 memory, and feature… Read more »
17Dual-Tuner Mini-ITX Build?
After discussions on a I wondered if it is possible to build a set-top box sized HTPC with dual-tuner cards inside. To achieve set-top box size means going Mini-ITX, but with the release of a range of Mini ITX AMD Fusion boards this is the easy part. Mini-ITX normally only includes 1 expansion slot, so… Read more »
