The iDEQ 200V XPC Barebones System
The Biostar iDEQ 200V is a versatile small form factor system designed to meet your computing and entertaining needs. Are you looking for a portable yet powerful LAN party gaming machine? Or perhaps you want a control center for your home entertainment system? There are countless uses for the iDEQ system—they are only limited by your imagination.
Detailed Features
Specifications
Processor
Supports up to AMD Athlon XP 3000+
333MHz Front Side Bus
Chipset
VIA KM400 + VT8237
Memory
2 x DDR333 slots
Expansion Slots
1 x AGP (8x)
1 x PCI
Front I/O Ports:
2 x USB 2.0
1 x S/PDIF input
1 x Microphone
1 x Headphone
1 x IEEE 1394A
Rear I/O Ports:
2 x USB 2.0
1 x S/PDIF output
1 x IEEE 1394A
1 x LAN
1 x VGA
1 x Serial
2 x PS/2
1 x Line-in
1 x Line-out
1 x Mic
IDE:
Accommodates up to 2 EIDE devices
Ultra DMA 33/66/100/133 Bus Master Mode
Serial ATA
2 x SATA devices
VT8237 SATA RAID
Video
VIA UniChrome 2D/3D Graphics with motion compensation
Audio
C-Media CMI9739A
LAN
10/100mbps LAN
Size
210 x 323 x 187 mm (W x D x H)
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The Biostar small form PCs are amazing!
And the 200V is super-quiet! More silent than
some notebooks.
The layout inside is very well designed. We can see that their engineers looked at earlier types of XPC and did a new better design. The heatsink and large enough fans are clever and efficient.
(The 200V fans usually spins at 2000-2400 RPM -- not
the noisy >3000 RPM some less well designed XPCs).
That model, IDEQ 200V, with the VIA chipset is especially quiet.
I have installed a Athlon 2500+ Barton in one and
when no CD is spinning and the HD is idle, you have to pay attention to notice the small level of noise. (Comparatively, the 200N with the nForce2 chipset is more noisy -- but still much less than the nForce2 model from the more famous pionner XPC brand).
NOTE for Linux fans: so far, I have tried several distros (RH9, Suse9, Mdk), and, the only distro
which recognizes the IDE controler and enables UDMA 100 is Mandrake 9.2
Also, neither OpenBSD 3.4 nor FreeBSD 5.1 c
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