Broadcom Crystal HD accelerators available now

Published: July 19, 2010Tags:

The Broadcom Crystal HD card is a nice little mod that you can use on your netbook to enable HD video playback. It’s a mini PCI Express card that decodes HD videos and takes the strain off of your cpu. This enables you to watch smooth full-screen HD video and stream 1080 video without jitters.

It’s available from Amazon for $49. All you need is an empty PCI-express slot in your netbook and when you plug the card in it auto-recognizes it and you’re good to go.

Here is a list of netbooks with empty PCI-e slots that you can use with the Broadcom HD card (or anything else that will fit).

Dell Mini 9: 3 available in 3G-enabled models; otherwise 2; WIFI is half-height
Dell Mini 10: 3 available in 3G-enabled models; otherwise 2; WIFI is half-height
Gigabyte M912: 2 available
Lenovo S10: 1 available (3G available in Europe; cannot import; 2 slots)
Samsung NC10: 1 available (3G available in Europe; cannot import; 2 slots)
HP Mini 1000; 2 available in 3G-enabled models; otherwise 1
HP 2140: 1 available [2150 model will have 3G]
Acer AOD150: 2 available (3G available in Europe; cannot import; still 2)
Acer 8.9″: 2 available in 3G-enabled models; otherwise 1 (tnkgrl has added a slot successfully)
OCZ Neutrino: 2 available (WIFI is half-height)
Asus 1000HE: 1 available (3G available in Europe; cannot import; 2 slots)
Asus N10: Unclear; appear to be 3, but one seems to be designed for SSD only
Asus 9″ series: not researched
MSI Wind 9″ and 10″: 1 available (3G available in Europe; cannot import; 2 slots)
LG X110: 2 available (3G and WIFI seem to be the only configuration) [AT&T will sell it]
Toshiba NB100: 3G available in Europe; cannot import; 2 slots
HP Mini 311: 2 slots, both USB + PCI-E, whitelist present, hackable
Lenovo S9: only 1, USB+PCI-E, no whitelist
Lenovo S10: only 1 , USB+PCI-E, no whitelist