Thursday, January 26, 2006
How-To: Build a Practical HTPC
Posted by Chris Gohlke in "HARDWARE" @ 03:00 PM
"We've seen a lot of home theater PCs lately and being in need of a new workstation, we decide to build one of our own. We started planning by looking around to see what others had done. It would be fun to own a HD capable 2TB box , but we're not going to drop $7,400. SnapStream's 11-tuner performance art piece looked fun too, but not practical. Even Ars Technica and ExtremeTech had decent looking guides, but both systems broke $2K. We wanted to build a machine that had: Good desktop performance, Long life through upgradability, Cost close to $1,000. So here's how we did it..."
If you are the roll-your-own type you'll definitely want to take at look at this article on building your own HTPC without breaking the bank.
If you are the roll-your-own type you'll definitely want to take at look at this article on building your own HTPC without breaking the bank.
