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 ...

A little background, I've currently got an all-Apple house but I'm missing PC gaming. My iMac has gotten long enough in the tooth that it won't play modern stuff even with Boot Camp. The advent of ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

It’s true: The best way to control your home theater is still with a PC. Forget all the hype about Google Chromecast and other assorted set-top boxes, dongles, and other gadgets. None of them can ...