Velocity Micro Offers Vista Powered Machines

Velocity Micro, who is well known in enthusiast circles for their Media Center PCs, have just introduced 2 new HTPC’s which come with Windows Vista Premium certification, sport ATI's TV Wonder Digital Cable tuner and offers both HD DVD and Blu-Ray as installable options. In an interesting move they offer both AMD and Intel based CPU systems.

The CineMagix Pro Cinema a base level machine sports, a 500-watt power supply, AMD Athlon 64 X2 3800+ processor, 1GB of DDR2 RAM, HDCP-compliant ATI Radeon X1950 Pro, an onboard 7.1 audio chip, 8-in-1 flash card reader, up to 1.5TB of hard drive space, dual gigabit Ethernet adapter, 802.11b/g, a pair of FireWire connectors, six USB 2.0 ports, and a wireless keyboard/mouse combo. Prices for the CineMagix Pro Cinema start at US$ 1699.

The Intel-powered CineMagix Grand Theater is the more powerful machine as it allows you to assemble the machine with Intel’s Quad core processing i.e. Core 2 Extreme X6800 or QX6700, system memory of up to 4GB of RAM, NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GTS and system storage of up to 2.25TB. In terms of peripherals and expandability options, it is similar to the CineMagix Pro Cinema and is available at a starting price of US$ 2195.