We won’t say the homegrown HTPC is making a comeback or anything, but shortly after Lian-Li laid out a new pair of cases, in flies MSI with a new duo of media PC-centric video cards. The R4600 series is comprised of the R4650 and R4670 (ATI), both of which are available in 512MB of 1GB flavors. Aside from boasting an all-too-useful HDMI port, these cards also support 7.1-channel audio output for use with internal Blu-ray drives, and the design is such that they won’t infringe on any other nearby PCIe cards. Per usual, MSI left us hanging with respect to pricing and availability, but we’re going out on a limb and expecting these to be totally reasonable.

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MSI rolls out R4600 HDMI GPU series for HTPC builders originally appeared on Engadget on Sat, 21 Mar 2009 09:23:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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