Shuttle’s Mini Gaming PC Powerhouse February 28, 2008

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With Cebit Show madness set to kick off next week, wee PC specialist, Shuttle, is hoping to beat the rush with news of a gaming PC that manages to be small too.

The mini-powerhouse is the XPC P2 3500G, built inside the aluminium XPC Barebone SP35P2 Pro chassis, sports an Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600 processor, 4GB of DDR2-800 Dram and a fast 750GB Serial-ATA 2 Samsung hard disk drive with 32 MB of cache. You can also fit another HDD if you need. There’s a serious amount of cooling and noise reduction technologies employed too so that it doesn’t sound like a plane taking off under your desk every few minutes.

Graphics come courtesy of the HD-capable ATI Radeon HD3870 graphics card with 512MB of dedicated graphics memory and support for the latest DirectX 10 games.

The system comes pre-loaded with Windows Vista and there’s an integrated fingerprint scanner for those extra security conscious gamers among you. In terms of connectivity, there’s two FireWire and seven USB 2.0 slots. It also supports Wi-Fi, has a 25-in-1 card reader and a 16x DVD burner. It comes with a price tag of around £1,100 and a 24-month pick-up-and-return warranty.-Martin Lynch

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