Rather than a lot of prose or paraphrasing, let me just show you exactly what the manufacturer has to say about this product and it's components...
You'll notice that this thing does not hold back when it comes to features. With support for 8x AGP, Serial ATA, USB 2.0, on-board LAN, video, and sound, this system is slightly more than a normal barebones PC, especially considering it's size..
Let's take a look at a few of the important features up close.
Intel 865G Chipset:
The 865G is a bigtime chipset in every way. Sporting every feature you'd look for in a performance PC the 865G allows the e-cube to push out huge performance in it's little package.
Rather than list two pages worth of chipset info that would be largely reduntant I'll simply link the Intel page that shows everything you could ever want to know about the 865G. So, CLICK HERE if details are your thing and you want to see the full menu of features.
Intel Extreme Graphics 2:
The mere phrase "On-board Video" makes me wanna run as fast as I can in the opposite direction. As a gamer, and certainly in a gamers box, we typically are very picky about the graphics adapter we run. When I first looked at the specifications of this Intel Extreme Graphics 2 I saw something I didn't expect, potential...
FEATURES
BENEFITS
Multi-texture
Useful for creating light maps, atmospheric effects, and more
2kx2k texture
Enables desktop-size textures
Cube reflection textures
Enables environment specular reflections
Render-to-texture
Allows auto-generation of texture on the fly
Projected textures
Projects textures onto other objects
DOT3 bump-mapping
Models realistic surface details
Destination alpha blend
Creates effects like force fields, flames, or plasma beams
Point sprites
Provides particle systems for atmospheric effects such as snowfall
Per pixel fog
Enables depth-cruising or hidden objects
Alpha blended sub-picture support
Enables softer effects for captions and subtitles
Anisotropic filtering
Provides high quality views of oblique surfaces
Hardware motion compensation
Provides high-quality DVD playback
5x2 overlay
Delivers smooth scaling of DVD playback
Intel® Digital Video Output (DVO)
Extends the integrated graphics engine to support digital FP and TV-out
Dual display
Supports synchronous display on analog and digital ports
Specifications Enhanced 2D
256-bit internal path
8/16/32bpp
DirectDraw*, GDI, GDI+
Anti-aliased text support
Alpha blending
Alphas stretch blitter
Hardware alpha blended RGB cursor
Color space conversion
5x2 overlay support
Rotate, scale and translate operations
High-performance 3D
256-bit internal path
32bpp/ 24ZorW/ 8 Stencil
DX7*/DX8*/OGL*1.1
DXTn texture compression
Up to 4 textures / pixel on a single pass
Cubic reflection map
Embossed/DOT3 bump mapping
Multi-texture
DOT3 bump-mapping
Point sprites
Video and Display
DirectShow*/DirectVA*
Hardware motion compensation support for DVD playback
4x2 overlay filter
350 MHz DAC frequency
Maximum DVO pixel rate of up to 330MP/s
Flat panel monitors and TV-out support via AGP Digital Display (ADD) cards
350 MHz DAC for 1800x1440 @ 85Hz max CRT resolution or 2048x1536@60Hz max FP resolution
Synchronous display for dual monitor capabilities
350MHz RAMDAC for up to QXGA analog monitor support
Dual DVO ports for up to QXGA digital display support
Multiple display types (LVDS, DVI, TV-out, CRT)
Now this is obviously no Radeon 9800, or even 9600 for that matter, but one can't help but admit that it's not too shabby for on board graphics. We actually tested the on-board Extreme Graphics 2 quite a bit (see the benchmark section) and while this isn't exactly a complete answer for a gamer, it's not too shabby either..
Let's head to page three and assemble this system so we can get to some testing. :)
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