Despite the rising popularity of streaming set-top box hardware over the last few years, the HTPC community continues to thrive among home theater enthusiasts that have large collections of video ...

I am looking to build a new computer to put at the center of my living room. Instead of building another tower PC, I'd like to build a PC using one of those media center cases, shaped like a receiver ...

The point of the upgrade is to reduce the space it takes up, improve performance, lower power consumption, and increase the # of games I can play directly on the HTPC (thus saving power by not having ...

Pundits may argue that the modern day HTPC has no place in the modern day living room, but we disagree. In fact, with the economy still struggling to regain its swagger, folks are staying in and ...

Given the state of hardware and games today, you don’t need a ridiculously expensive PC to have fun. A mid-range system is more than sufficient for most games and full-HD movies look great on such a ...

Unless you're a hardcore gamer, you don't typically think of a PC going in your living room. That's because, before 2010 at least, 95% of PCs were gigantic monoliths of silicon, which made it ...

It has been quite a while since I last went under the hood of my current Home Theater PC (HTPC), but judging by the gradual degrading performance that I was beginning to see when watching the latest ...

Build your own HTPC with a Mini PC and Linux for total content control of your media library and a commercial-free viewing experience. A Raspberry Pi is enough to get started on a budget, but for ...

So here's how we did it, click on to check it out! Even though we are building what could be considered a budget system we didn't want to make sacrifices just to hit a target cost. This is apparent in ...

Combine the big screen of your TV and the processing power of your computer and get a Home Theatre Personal Computer TVs and computers are the two most ubiquitous devices in our households, and each ...

We’ve not tested too many HTPCs recently and while the PC-C32 can accommodate our set of full size case testing hardware we don’t feel that that’s representative of an HTPC build – you’re not going to ...