[H]ardNews 9th Edition

VIA EPIA M9000:

Got a killer mini-pc mod you want to do? What about a HTPC for the ol’ living room? Well, Envy News has a review of the VIA EPIA M9000 which is a perfect choice for a small DVD or MP3 box. Check it out:

All in all, this is a good, cheap system and you will be hard pressed to create a mainstream PC for this sort of money. A reasonably decent motherboard costs the same as the entire M9k system itself, all you need to add is a case, CD/DVD drive, some memory and a harddrive. It's a fair bet to say a lot of you will have some if not all of these components lying around from old systems.

Biostar M7NCG Review:

Keeping with the mini-pc theme, Bjorn3D has a review of a nForce2 board from Biostar that comes in the micro-ATX form factor. Might be a cool board to do a project with.

The Biostar M7NCG is a well-built Micro-ATX motherboard, based on the NVIDIA nForce2 chipset. It's a complete solution with the all the peripherals needed for a basic computer system integrated into the motherboard.