It's not every day that a full review of a system from a major PC brand appears at SPCR. Now here we are with two desktop PCs from Hewlett Packard. In the third quarter of 2006, HP took the lead from Dell as the biggest maker of computers in the world ...

AMD should be pleased that we can confirm their point. The performance of the Intel-based integrated video graphics in the HP Pavilion a1640n is inferior to the nVidia-based integrated video graphics in the HP Pavilion a1630n. The fact that this AMD ...

Last April, Apple got our attention with a Core Duo 17" iMac that was the quietest, most efficient stock system we've seen from a major brand. The iMacs now sport Intel's Core

All in all, the iMac is a high end product that the masses will understand. It's luxurious status comes from its image and integration, not performance. Thankfully, low noise is part of that image, and we like it for that all the more

It's a socket 754 system that's a bit long in the tooth, but no one said old technology couldn't be quiet. The Asus T2-AE1 is a tidy package that looks good and is shockingly inexpensive. Can it be quiet as well?

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Although the T2-AE1 will never challenge for a performance crown, the older technology on which it is based it its biggest advantage. Getting a case, power supply, motherboard, heatsink, and a floppy drive for US$100 is a pretty good deal, and ...

SPCR reader Randy Harris' appraisal of his new 20" iMac, powered by an Intel Core Duo processor, comes on the heels of last week's PR extravaganza at the Spring 2006 Intel Developers Forum and the ensuing tech media frenzy. How does this first product ...

If anything I've written about is intriguing to you, I recommend that you give the Mac, particularly the iMac your consideration

It's late to the table, but Shuttle's long awaited SD11G5 is a landmark SFF. Just the basics are enough to make a winning combination: A Pentium M SFF platform around a proven single fan heatpipe cooling system with a PCIe video card slot and an ...

Two very notable features:

Shuttle's first real BTX SFF system in their first steel chassis continues the somewhat larger trend started with their other socket T models. PCIe VGA, a BTX 80mm fan PSU and an actual Intel BTX HSF rather than the right angle heatpipe HS preferred ...

Overall, this is an interesting effort from Shuttle with a lot of firsts. We look forward to seeing more steel cases, and we expect the quality of BTX-based systems to improve

It's the first of Shuttle's socket T SFF systems, and it is loaded to the gills with convenience and performance features. It borrows heavily from BTX layout without quite being BTX. Visibly bigger than its predecessors, with a huge (for SFF) 350W PSU ...

If all the loud fans could somehow be quieted, the motherboard does provide a decent range of options for a quiet system. A full range of undervolting and underclocking is supported, and the fan controller seems to be fairly effective. It is even ...

It is not the first AMD Athlon 64 SFF barebones system from Shuttle, but it is the first to use a Socket 939 motherboard. We installed a 3500+ Winchester (90nm) core in a minimalist setup with a notebook HDD, played long in the BIOS and measured, ...

The small size and all-integrated drive bay makes it very difficult to suspend a standard desktop HDD in this PC. For performance as quiet as we measured and heard, a quiet

The EX915 is a 775 or socket T SFF barebones from AOpen, based on the same mechanical platform as the previously reviewed EZ65, but with a more techno sleek facia and the Intel 915 chipset. Socket 775 processors appear to be all Prescott-core right ...

As with the EZ65, the EX915 AOpen SFF is attractive, well-finished and easy to assemble. However, we cannot recommend it if you seek low noise computing. If you really like the look of the case, choose an EX65 instead -- it offers the socket-478 865 ...

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The above examples are only three of the endless combinations of fans and components that a user might assemble. Althought the thermal demands of the test rig are modest compared to that of a more current-edge system, it's clear that there is plenty ...