Biostar Mini-PC iDEQ 200S - no CPU

Advantages: very small and fast
Disadvantages: could come in different sizes

...this has to be the best computer ever it has 1gb ram and also has 300gb memory its also one of the fasts loading computers and also you can have to be built to how you want it i paid just under £500 for it and it was custome to how i wanted it i have a wirless mouse and key bord and had more usb ports put in it Processor: AMD Athlon 64, Sempron Socket 754 processors 800MHz HyperTransport Bus Chipset: VIA K8M800 + VT8237 IDE : Two IDE channels Physically accommodates up to 3 EIDE devices Ultra DMA 33/66/100/133 Bus Master Mode LAN: Realtek RTL8100C 10/100mbps LAN Video : VIA UniChrome Pro 2D/3D Graphics with motion compensation Size : 210mm x 323mm x 187mm (W x D x H)... Read review

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Advantages: very very quiet, small, portable, cool looking, easy to upgrade
Disadvantages: not many DIMM slots, not many PCI slots

...will require to buy in addition to this base unit 1/CPU (intel cpu's) 2/RAM (ddr only) 3/hard discs 4/graphics card (if you want to play games) as the built in one is pants (i865 chipset with shared memory) I've recently upgraded to a radeon 9800 xt, and the power supply supports it! I've heard that the geforce fx 5900's and radeon 9800's need at least a 200w PSU, and this seems to be able to cope well with doom3 and halflife 2. Though since installing it, the temperature inside the case has gone up by 10oC It's a shame it only has 1 x PCI slot and 1 x AGP slot, and 2 x DIMM slots, so there isn't much scope for expansion, but that's the price you pay for an ultra portable, stylish, quiet and cool PC. I would recommend this to anyone, and I love my SFF PC to bits! I can't wait to modifiy it!!... Read review

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Advantages: Very Small, Elegant, very very quiet
Disadvantages: Limited expansion capability (But then its not a server!)

...There have been many small form factor (SFF) cases around for a while now. Shuttle started the trend, and in many eyes has been eclipsed by the competition both in terms of quality and styling. What’s a SFF? A Small Form Factor case is a normal PC case with all of the usual components just smaller. In this instance the Biostar is 210mm x 323mm x 187mm approx. 8” x 13” x 8". Isn’t it expensive for a small case? That all depends on how you look at it I suppose! This case retails at about £90. For that you get the case, silent power supply, motherboard, CPU cooler (heatsink and fan) and a multi-format card reader. Separately these could cost you a lot more than that. Is there a catch? Well, again, that depends on how you look at it. The Biostar 210V doesn’t have the full expansion possibilities as a larger PC case would have... Read review

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