In this second part of our personal, home-made PC-based PVR solution, we focus on Microsoft's Windows XP Media Center Edition 2004. See how it compares to the Linux-based MythTV.

As the first part of a multi-part series, we will be installing, customizing and benchmarking a Linux PVR setup using MythTV. In Part II, we will benchmark our custom system against Windows XP Media Center Edition.

As many applications are L2 cache sensitive, we took three 1.8GHz offerings from AMD; the results may surprise you.

We got a preview of performance on the upcoming Pentium 4 3.6F processor a few days ago. Today we go one step further and compare the two best server offerings from Intel and AMD with full 64-bit binaries and operating systems.

Intel's newest Xeon processor packs full x86_64 support, but can it put one of AMD's more tried and true CPUs in place on a 64-bit OS?

Inquiring minds ask us which Socket 939 platform prevails in 32-bit and 64-bit operation - no problem.

Over a year ago, AMD introduced its 64-bit platform without any hint of Microsoft backing the bold chip maker. We still don't have a true 64-bit Windows operating system. Do we look to Linux?