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FIC announces the newest addition to our innovative line of products – the small form factor Condor Cube. The Condor is definitely a gamer’s PC, offering both power and performance in a compact, portable design unlike any other! Nothing about this system will get in the way of pure gaming performance and excitement. The Condor uses an extremely stable and powerful Intel P4 865G platform, and features high-end graphics, with additional support for an AGP 8X graphic card using 1 AGP expansion slot. This system has everything the serious gamer needs, from easy integration to ultimate connectivity. Plus, its ingenious acoustic and thermal design makes it ultra quiet, producing less than 24 db of noise, so gamers will relish in the 5.1 channel audio from their games and not the hum of a loud CPU cooler.

The Condor Cube is also easy to use, maintain and upgrade. All of the Condor’s drives, as well as the front I/O, are quickly accessible behind integrated front bay doors. Plus, with just a push of the chassis lock button the contemporary chassis of the Condor swings open on its hinges, providing access to the DVD player, audio system, FDD, and HDD. Both the FDD and HDD are tool-free, allowing the system to be maintained without the need of a screwdriver. If greater access is needed, the Condor’s chassis hinges can actually be physically disconnected, allowing half of the chassis to be pulled away for effortless access to key components. The Condor is the easiest and quickest SFF to configure and upgrade ever developed!

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MSI will begin selling the Mega 180, a mini-barebone system supporting the AMD Athlon XP processor, in January. The Mega 180 is a combination of PC, stereo, MP3 player and DVD/VCD player. In addition to an AMD Athlon XP processor, the Mega 180 features an Nvidia nForce 2 integrated chipset, an LCM panel and a radio tuner. The model will support the K8 platform (AMD Athlon 64). Suggested retailed price for the case and motherboard is NT$ 13,000 (about US$ 382).

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