Strong performance and easy expandability should appeal to budget-minded gamers.
The Amax Power 660+ offers a nice compromise between cost and performance that will appeal to the serious gamer or power user who can't quite afford a cutting-edge system.Our $3119 Power 660+ review unit came with a 3.6-GHz Pentium 4 660 CPU, 1GB of DDR2-533 SDRAM, an Asus EN6800Ultra graphics card (based on nVidia's GeForce 6800 Ultra graphics chip), and two 200GB hard drives in a striped RAID 0 array. The system produced a very respectable but not chart-topping score of 100 on PC WorldBench 5. More important to gamers, the Power 660 demonstrated the ability to comfortably run 3D programs: Graphics tests on Return to Castle Wolfenstein at 1280-by-1024 resolution returned a frame rate score of 143, the ninth fastest result we've seen. For Unreal Tournament at the same resolution, it achieved 317 frames per second, the eleventh best yet.
At first touch, the Power 660+'s thin aluminum case feels a bit flimsy, except for the thick aluminum door that covers the front panel. The security conscious will like the door's lock, which denies access to the startup button; the media-oriented will like the Sony DW-D26A/B2 double-layer 4X DVD+R drive (up to 16X in single-layer DVD+RW mode), the Sony 16X DVD-ROM drive, and a 6-in-1 media-card reader. The practical-minded will need a screwdriver to remove the door and access useful ports. You won't find any conveniently located USB or other ports on the front of the case; instead, they're under a hatch on the top of the box--a definite annoyance for anyone who regularly stacks things there.
The Amax Power 660+ offers a nice compromise between cost and performance that will appeal to the serious gamer or power user who can't quite afford a cutting-edge system.Our $3119 Power 660+ review unit came with a 3.6-GHz Pentium 4 660 CPU, 1GB of DDR2-533 SDRAM, an Asus EN6800Ultra graphics card (based on nVidia's GeForce 6800 Ultra graphics chip), and two 200GB hard drives in a striped RAID 0 array. The system produced a very respectable but not chart-topping score of 100 on PC WorldBench 5. More important to gamers, the Power 660 demonstrated the ability to comfortably run 3D programs: Graphics tests on Return to Castle Wolfenstein at 1280-by-1024 resolution returned a frame rate score of 143, the ninth fastest result we've seen. For Unreal Tournament at the same resolution, it achieved 317 frames per second, the eleventh best yet.
At first touch, the Power 660+'s thin aluminum case feels a bit flimsy, except for the thick aluminum door that covers the front panel. The security conscious will like the door's lock, which denies access to the startup button; the media-oriented will like the Sony DW-D26A/B2 double-layer 4X DVD+R drive (up to 16X in single-layer DVD+RW mode), the Sony 16X DVD-ROM drive, and a 6-in-1 media-card reader. The practical-minded will need a screwdriver to remove the door and access useful ports. You won't find any conveniently located USB or other ports on the front of the case; instead, they're under a hatch on the top of the box--a definite annoyance for anyone who regularly stacks things there.
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