Arctic Unveils the MC101 Series Trinity-Powered HTPCs

[Cristian_25H]

Last year, ARCTIC revealed the underlying potential of all-in-one home entertainment centers. Our first notable MC001 entertainment center was successfully launched and remarkably praised by numerous media in USA (CPU, TechPowerUp, TomsHardware, Europe (KitGuru, Madshrimps, ProHardver, PC Tuning, HW Legend, InformaticaEasy, 59 Hardware, Cowcotland) and Canada (Overclockers Online) etc.

This year, ARCTIC continues with its spirit of innovation by creating a new generation of powerful home entertainment centers - the MC101 Series which will keep you entertained - always. We design our innovative technologies around you so that you can enjoy more with less effort. In addition to its cost-effective, multi-functional, and high level of accessibility, our MC101 Series deliver fast, compact and feather-light home entertainment solutions that are humbly perfect.





We know that you want elegantly designed technologies for your home so we made our MC101 home entertainment centers with ultra-slim silver brushed aluminum covers and decorated it with a black plate and light-up LED power button. You will also be connected to all of your devices as well as those around you with its numerous connection ports. With all these in mind, you won't even notice that your MC101 is on because we adhere strictly to our state-of-the-art PC cooling methodologies which give you complete silence.

The MC101 Series features only the latest high-speed processor AMD APU Trinity A8/A10, extremely advanced 3D HD graphics that are ideal for gaming, HD movies and HD music so that you can enjoy and share unlimited entertainment hassle-free. Moreover, you no longer have to worry about digital file storage with its gigantic disk storage of up to 1 TB. You can simply plug-and-play these home entertainment centers with its pre-installed Windows 7 Home Premium (Windows 8 ready) and numerous USB 2.0 and 3.0 ports to connect you wirelessly.

The MC101 Series offers home entertainment centers with different smart configurations (MC101 PRO, MC101 and MC101 Barebone) to suit your needs perfectly.

ARCTIC's MC101 Series will follow closely after the official release of the AMD APU Trinity so that you will never have to wait for something as wonderful as this!

[m1dg3t]

And where does the disc go? Am i missing something?

[Horrux]

I guess you download everything from the Internet (wait, what, torrents?) or from the network...

Yeah that thing needs a Blu-Ray drive big time. Other than that, it seems pretty awesome.

[R_1]

Last time I checked ARCTIC MC001 price, it was ~ €400. Nobody is buying that high, cause some pretty decent notebooks, with Sandy bridge, discrete GPU and blu-ray optical drive costed less money.

[InnocentCriminal]

Looks like a NES if it was made today.

[Horrux]

That thing is tiny, the RJ-15 port looks huge on it lol.

OTOH, I don't like it, most of the connectors appear to be on the side rather than the back...

[TheLostSwede]

Uhm, did they just leak unannounced AMD processors?

[legends84]

wait.. AMD Trinity?. i tot arctic going to sue amd coz fusion.. LOL.. btw.. nice

[Sp33d Junki3]

I will say this, it does have a great look to it.

[scazbala86]

Originally Posted by TheLostSwede

Uhm, did they just leak unannounced AMD processors?

I think they may have done just that, A10 with a 7660G, nice, but I wonder about the 1600mhz DDR3... Why not 1866?

[TheGuruStud]

Originally Posted by scazbala86

I think they may have done just that, A10 with a 7660G, nice, but I wonder about the 1600mhz DDR3... Why not 1866?

I think trinity supports 2133. The faster the better with these for sure. You can start cranking out OK fps in games with fast memory (IMC is much improved).

Although, I suppose no one is going to game on these and it's plenty fast for any video acceleration. But 1866 is becoming standard. It would have been nice.

[cloudwan]

First they sue them, then they make a HTPC using one of their product?
Is suing becoming a good way to get cheap price for the product you want to use nowadays? hahaha

[m1dg3t]

Originally Posted by cloudwan

First they sue them, then they make a HTPC using one of their product?
Is suing becoming a good way to get cheap price for the product you want to use nowadays? hahaha

Pretty funny eh?

[starstarman]

Originally Posted by cloudwan

First they sue them, then they make a HTPC using one of their product?
Is suing becoming a good way to get cheap price for the product you want to use nowadays? hahaha

Exactly.
No respect for Arctic.

[DisplayandReplay]

Originally Posted by cloudwan

First they sue them, then they make a HTPC using one of their product?
Is suing becoming a good way to get cheap price for the product you want to use nowadays? hahaha

I guess it is the trademark thing. They are producing PSU called "Fusion 550", maybe that's the reason. :-\

[meno]

I'm quite enthusiastic about the MC101 PRO (A10) but Borebone version. Unfortunately (unlike their previous MC 001 model) there is no D-SUB connector, that decrease the mobility of it substantially. I prefer to connect 2 monitors at the same time (HDMI and D-SUB) or only the cheap and small D-SUB on the go (that available more widely without carry any monitor). The Hudson M3 has VGA DAC, so it would be easy(?) to include. I don't mind being 5mm thicker then. As you mentioned, it would be better with 1866MHz or even with 2133MHz RAM. Why the barebone version has RAM? Would it be more hot, so cooling is an issue then? Can we change the RAM later, or the RAM chips melted to the motherboard (like the BGA packed APU)? I would prefer 16GB later if it has 2 slots (for RAMDISK for temporary files). Otherwise this is what I really want, not only as a media center, but also as my next Desktop. That's why I miss the D-SUB and faster/bigger RAM, that also improve GPU performance. Thicker would be moe easy to cool, although no info if it will be the LV version (A10 LV with 25W) or 35W version. No info if DVB-T uses MP2 or MP4? Probably both, but I use the latter.