MSI 785GTM-E45 Motherboard for HTPC

 

I was thinking building a HTPC for some time. My first choice for a HTPC motherboard the XFX GeForce 9300 did not work out when it went dead in just three days. Luckily, right after I returned it, there was a sale on a AMD Athlon II X3 440 CPU and MSI 785GTM-E45 motherboard [...]

A not so great experience of the XFX GeForce 9300 Motherboard

 

I have been using an old ECS motherboard with AGP bus with Intel E4300 Core Duo processor.  It is an older board and therefore not only lacking HDMI connector, it does not even support HDTV resolutions and that make it rather difficult to connect to an even older 1080i RPTV. Furthermore, [...]

$98 Magnavox NB530MGX Blu-Ray Player (4) – Usage Impression Follow Up

When I first got the Magnavox NB530MGX I was using an older Pioneer receiver that lack of HDMI connection which means I was not able to decode the HD audio formats. I was using the coaxial digital output of the NB530 to the receiver. The result of course is as good or as bad [...]