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ASrock have been active in the last 12 months, releasing a high quality range of motherboards and small form factor computers. Today we are looking at their latest range of media centers – the Core HT HTPC, which is based around the Intel Sandybridge platform.
The Home Theater computer we are reviewing today is based around a Core i5 processor, with 4GB of DDR3 memory, 500GB storage and onboard Intel HD graphics. The only thing that is not included is the operating system.
Specifications:
- Intel® Mobile Sandy Bridge Processor
- Mobile Intel® HM65 Express chipset
- Playback of Blu-ray disc S3D content via HDMI 1.4a
- HDMI audio pass through (Dolby TrueHD & DTS-HD Master Audio)
- THX TruStudio PRO™
- 4 x USB3.0
- 1 x eSATA3
Wow thats tiny to keep an i5 cool. very impressed with that. CPU cooler is so small……. might be borderline to keep that clean after a year or two. temps get high as it is, brand new. I remember opening my last PC and the CPu cooler was b asically blocked with dust.
That piano black looks brilliant brand new, see after a month? it is a nightmare. my TV is the same, the outter bevel is piano black and its consantlely being cleaned.
Wish they did a version in aluminum, like Apple products, that would be wicked. Id never buy apple for a media center as their OS doesnt support bluray and you need to mod it to Windows and add a player….. useless.
Nice.
I had an ATOM powered Sapphire system after reading the review here and it sucked. so frigging slow. never touching atom again.
The back I/O is good, but why no DVI? seems bizarre when they have everything there but the kitchen sink
Nice product but you could have compared the gaming performance to … well anything! Also whats with the deal with the 20+ pages for a review that really need be no more than half a dozen? Other than that nice work.