AOpen XC Cube AV EA65-IIa 2.0 - Cube - RAM 0 MB - no HDD - Extreme Graphics 2 - Gigabit Ethernet - Monitor : none

I've been building SFF barebones since they began making an appearance. My favorite was the Chyang Fun EA65Q (AMS distributed as The E-Cube 65D) for its case design. THey no longer carried it so I tried the AOpen. A faster motherboard for sure. I love...

Case is very tight (as could be expected) and is difficult to install everything if your hands are large. However, once installed, the system works well, is very quiet and seems rather stable. The driver install crashed XP pro, but once I recovered it...

This is my second XC Cube, and surely not the last. First the cons: the included TV tuner card and HTPC software are throwaway; your better bet is to grab a card with hardware encoding, and get GBPVR for HTPC actions, it is excellent and free. The lack...