Okoro's OMS-GX300 adds SLI to the HTPC
By Evan Blass 
posted Jun 9th 2006 3:18PM
posted Jun 9th 2006 3:18PM
Although home theater PCs are great for watching and listening to your digital content from the comfort of your couch, most lack the graphics horsepower for playing your favorite games on your 60-inch plasma and eight speaker setup. Not so with Okoro's new OMS-GX300, which besides sporting a dual-core Athlon64 FX-60 processor from AMD, also packs in that tasty SLI goodness in the form of nVidia's GeForce 7950 GX2 card featuring a full gig of video RAM. As if that weren't enough to get you excited, the GX300 also comes with 1TB of storage standard -- upgradable to a whopping 3TB thanks to four open SATA bays -- three TV tuners (2 analog and one OTA digital), an HDA Digital X-Mystique 7.1 sound card, and just about every input and output that you could ask for -- except, curiously, HDMI. Best of all, this model features a 7-inch front panel touchscreen for displaying tons of infoswag, at a price that's at least four hundred bucks less than the $5,000-and-up screen-less Denali series from Niveus.
I want it!
Wow - that is a cool case they build those things in. Does anyone know a place to buy just the "stereo" computer case?
Yeah, nice... but will it run doo... Never mind.
this case can be bought as OEM at http://www.pcalchemy.com
How is the lack of HDMI "curious?" Exactly how are they supposed to implement that?
That is the best looking HTPC I have seen.
And a thank you to Arman for the link to the case, let's see how much I can make one for
That thing is beautiful.
It's also way out of my price range.
Seems odd that the PR shot is running Media Center 2004 though ;)
I don't see a beer dispenser on it anywhere
i've never really understood putting LCDs like that on media centre boxes. i've been building media centres for years and while i use and definitely see a purpose for character LCDs or even small graphical LCDs, but what purpose does this serve? honest question here, not bashing the product or anything...
There are several reasons why you would want something like that small LCD.
1. It is touchpanel. This makes it so you can easily access files and/or programs that are most desirable, without cluttering the desktop or program list on the PC.
2. It can act secondary screen. This is good if you want to turn on the machine and listen to some music without having to turn on the display device (projectors, I am looking at you). Or, show secondary information, such as cover art, lyrics, equilizer, playback appearence and so forth.
You can get that case at PC-Alchemy and build it yourself.
As to HDMI, there are no HDMI enabled cards out there the public can buy. HDMI implies HDCP and that ain;t happening quite yet. It will for Vista Media Center and CableCard suppoert (which requires it).
Ian,
As to the HDMI issue. Abit has a motherboard due out this month with HDMI and HDCP support.
READ:
http://www.hdbeat.com/2006/05/11/abit-il-80mv-first-motherboard-with-hdmi-output/
That case is nothing new I bought my system @ http://www.2partsfusion.com
dms-702 and it rocks