The EKT is a concept design for a media PC that is very firmly meant to sit under your TV in your living room.

It won’t be out until Jaunary (once Vista is widely available), but maker ECS said it will be equipped with Intel’s Conroe Core 2 Duo CPU and use the new G965 chipset, which is aimed at digital home machines. This will also use Intel’s new GMA X3000 integrated graphics, again, built for entertainment PCs.

It is HDMI complaint and uses three TV tuners, so you can watch one channel and record two more at the same time. If sitting it under the TV doesn’t appeal, it can be wall mounted, when the LCD display can be swivelled so that it is still visible.

The machine on show at Computex was still a little noisy, but that was because the Bios hadn’t been tuned.

By its release ECS hopes to get noise when idle down to 24dBs and 28dBs when under full load, such as when recording. Under normal playback only conditions, it will be about 26dBs, which is fairly standard for consumer electronics devices.