#Best mini pc for htpc 2015 windows 8.1
Add $130 for a copy of Windows 8.1 Professional and you're just short of $1000. My biggest issue with the ASRock box is its $850 price tag. If I were still in a dorm with limited room for electronics, the VisionX would be on my wish list. It's classy-looking enough to live in your living room, but also the perfect size to take to LAN party. The included 802.11ac-capable wireless solution is fantastic, too.Įquipped with the internal Blu-ray option, ASRock's VisionX becomes a high-end home theater and gaming PC capable of handling 3D content at the resolutions and quality settings PC gamers want to use. And when it comes to graphics, the discrete Radeon HD 8850M with 1 GB of GDDR5 is in a league of its own. Without the thermal restrictions imposed by smaller devices, its Haswell-based Core i5 CPU maintains a 2.5 GHz based clock rate that propels the VisionX to the front of our platform-oriented benchmarks. Then again, it's dwarfed by a standard DVD player, and is smaller than most of the HTPCs you'll encounter with optical drives. But for the price, the Revo is a fantastic little machine.Īt about 8.5" square, ASRock's VisionX 420D is about twice as large as the NUC-sized devices in this round-up. The enthusiast community won't like this thing's limited gaming performance, its restrictive firmware, or the hard-to-remove 2.5" disk drive. Remember, it was only a couple of years ago when we were looking at painfully slow Atom-based PCs. And it can also be mounted to a monitor, tucked out of the way completely.Įven though the Revo isn't fast relative to today's story, it has plenty of power for a home desktop. Acer's submission is a little larger than some of the other options in our round-up, but its footprint is still diminutive, particularly on its vertical stand. Plug in a monitor and you're off to the races. Second, the $430 price tag, which includes an operating system, is less than half of what you'd pay for most of the other contenders.Īs if that's not enough, the Revo comes with a wireless mouse and keyboard, and Windows is pre-installed. First, the performance spread between the Revo and some of the other offers is typically pretty narrow. Budget Mini-PC: Acer Aspire Revo RL80-UR22Īcer's Aspire Revo RL80 finished in the back of most of our benchmarks.
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