Review

Introduction: After my bad experience with the Abit F-I90HD motherboards, read about it here, I purchased two Intel DG33TL motherboards. Although these boards do not have HDMI onboard, they do have HDCP compliant DVI, and by adding an ADD2 HDMI board you get HDMI and audio over HDMI. The Good: Onboard HDCP compliant DVI. Intel ADD2 HDMI card support. Vista installed very fast and with no problems. The driver DVD that came with the board installs all devices that are not installed by Vista. ...

Introduction: I purchased an Antec Fusion Black case to replace my aging HTPC. The case looks very nice, until you turn on the LCD display… The Good: The case looks very nice. The construction is solid. The Bad: The two included case fans do not have speed monitoring wires, I had to purchase new fans. For such an expensive case this is rather disappointing. There are two fans on the side of the case, both set to extract hot air, but hard drives are located in an area with no direct ventilation. There are ample ventilation holes around the drives, but it remains to be seen if the drives will overheat or not. ...

Introduction: I have been looking for a digital photo frame for a while, and from what I read the Philips Photo Frame models appear to have very good image quality and good features. I bought a Philips 9" wood border model 9FF2CWO. The Good: The frame looks very nice. The image quality is really very good. The frame’s built in software is very extensive and easy to use. The frame directly displays pictures from cameras or pictures copied to memory cards, no special settings required, no image resizing required. ...