If you always wanted that you do not have to watch movies on DiVX or xvid that dinky computer monitor, you are in luck, because now is a good time to piece together a Home Theater PC. Small and powerful, a Home Theater PC (HTPC) combines the usefulness of a computer with the raw film-watching capabilities of a complete entertainment center.

So far, the computers built on the architecture AMD Athlon64 offer the best set of options and video output that these characteristics build a HTPC eager. It is both the CPU as is the chipsets being released by companies like nVidia for K8 mother. In particular, there are some motherboards with chipsets that are set right cheap. Such frugality makes the prospect of building an affordable price well equipped computer, a remarkable effort easy. Unlike the hey-day of desktop computers, a sub-$ 500 PC is not myth, in 2006.

AMD's Sempron processors Athlon64 and both have been ported to the socket AM2 platform, and you may be surprised to find entry-level models retail for just over $ 100 CDN. Agressiva prices of processors is only one of the tactics being used to gain consumers of the K8 platform, but realistically it's just a really nice deal. Why spend money when you do not need a computer?

Looking to the Albatron KM51PV-AM2 matrix?
The Americans and E.U. Distributor for Albatron videocards and mother is NU MEDIA System USA Inc. In Walnut CA.
Contact Mr. Charles Chuang (T: 909.598.5061) on the availability in the KM51PV-AM2 board.

A higher number-model AMD Sempron, AMD Athlon64 or value-oriented is more than capable of performing all the tasks you are average person can lie down. Since the latest processors are socket AM2 now, DDR-2 memory has become as accessible as their demand has ballooned. What remains is a bit of a challenge to any set about building a computer on the cheap, and this is the graphics. Printing plates is the only component that you can not do without delay, because what is happening in the computer and transform them into data a CRT monitor or LCD will understand - the good will still allow you to output video from a standard TV or HDTV! The complicated part is that videocards are like cars, you can spend quite fortune to go a little faster than anyone else, or you can save a huge fortune and go so fast on most roads.

The computer industry thrives outside of the masses, those of us conduct of cheap cars in a reasonable speed, but it is the folly drivers speeding down the highway at a rate that get all the press. This is the life in the world tech.

Albatron KM51PV-AM2 motherboard

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NVidia was seized after its inherent knowledge and created several graphics chipsets for the masses to deal with all the tasks normally chipsets are on a motherboard, and incorporate extra logic to assume also the role of videocard. The name for this industry is "integrated graphics", and is both a blessing and a curse, depending on with whom you speak. Players in particular, find integrated graphics on how constricting as a 800lb python.

The nVIDIA GeForce 6150 is the best in the industry when it comes to integrated graphics chipsets for the AMD Athlon 64 platform, which integrates video, TV-output, multiple channels of audio, and connectivity of network in a little tiny chip. Perhaps most surprisingly, the integrated Geforce 6-series graphics are also relatively good. Little tiny all-in-one chips help make compact microATX mother a reality, compact and inexpensive computers a result. Perfect for HTPC builders!

The Albatron KM51PV-AM2 is one such microATX motherboard that serves multiple uses roles. The KM51PV-AM2 is based on nVIDIA GeForce 6150 and nForce 430 chipsets, and, as such, supports all current socket AM2 processors and AMD Sempron Athlon64/FX/X2. The bargain basement prices of AMD Sempron 64-bit processor are really the most appropriate for the KM51PV-AM2 mother, but for comparison purposes we benchmarking with a little more powerful AMD processor.

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Albatron's KM51PV-AM2 mother has four DDR-2 DIMM slots, and these will accommodate as much as 8GB of dual channel ECC / non-ECC DDR2-800 RAM (PC2-6400). The Geforce 6150 is also going by the code name nForce4 C51PV, while the nForce 430 Southbridge is also called the nForce4 MCP51.

As the name indicates GeForce, Geforce 6150 chipset's graphics card is more than is mother core logic. He meets each role well, and will even accommodate both DVI and analog monitors as well as a standalone videocard does. Analog VGA cables are used with CRT and LCD's, which DVI digital VGA cables is the exclusive domain of LCD monitors. Or-style monitor, or both, may call the Albatron KM51PV-AM2 mother in the back I / O panel.

That vision led to a trade off in terms of connectivity, and you will see the printer's parallel port is missing the KM51PV-AM2 motherboard. The data pins for the parallel port, were relegated to a space next to the floppy disk drive connector, and with a medium that fits in a track free PCI printers of this type can be installed. An abundant selection of USB2.0 taken are the preferred way to collaborate with external devices such as a printer, scanner or digital camera - if you have not upgraded since this is certainly a good push in the right direction. There are six USB2.0 taken on the back of the board, along with 5.1 channel audio mini-headphone jacks and a single Gigabit Ethernet network socket. A premium for the Geforce 6150 is that the VGA Video jacks support multi-monitor video output, allowing it to span or a clone WindowsXP desktop on more than one monitor (CRT or LCD, you can not use two analog monitors at the same time since there is only one RAMDAC). Building upon their strengths, the KM51PV-AM2 still has a TV-output header.

Two 32-bit PCI expansion slots, a PCI Express x16 slot and PCI Express x4 are readily at hand for other standalone devices that can be called in the future. And, of course, if the board videocard prove too restrictive a PCI Express x16 videocard can be installed quickly. Hard drives are supported through four 3.0GB / s SATAII ports that include RAID 0/1/0 +1 / JBOD support the strengthening of the redundancy of data or access improvement. Optical drives can be connected to either of the two UltraATA 133 IDE channels (each of which accommodates just two IDE devices), so slap on a double layer DVD and you are good to go!