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December 12, 2008 by Lawrence Lee with Mike Chin
| Product |
HFX Micro Business S13
mITX Desktop Computer |
| Manufacturer |
mCubed |
| Street Price |
545 EUR |
mCubed is an Austrian company that describes itself as "a High-Tech
company focussing on home entertainment and technologies to make your daily
life more convenient, more stylish and more quiet." Over the years
it has introduced some notable products, such as the T-Balancer,
the world's most versatile PC fan controller, and the stylish HFX line of
systems and cases — fanless cases using integrated heatpipes and heatsinks to dissipate
heat.
The last mCubed product we reviewed was the HFX
Mini, which was aimed at the HTPC market and powered by an mATX Aopen
945G board and a mobile Intel Core Duo processor. It came complete with TV tuner,
sound card, slot-loading DVD drive, remote control, and interestingly enough,
its own external power supply.
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The HFX Micro is built like a small tank.
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The HFX Micro line is a whole other animal. As the name suggests, it is smaller
than the Mini, being based around the mini-ITX form factor. There are three
basic models all using the same chassis: the Class.D which is actually an amplifier,
the Business S12 based on the Intel single core Atom board (D945GCLF),
and the Business S13 which uses the Intel dual core Atom board (D945GCLF2).
The S13 is the model we're examining here.
It's difficult to see in the photo above, but the front and top panels are actually made of black plexiglass rather than the aluminum that the rest of the case is made of. None of the three HFX Micro models mentioned above has an optical drive, but some photos in the HFX web site show what could be a front panel opening for a slot optical drive.
Here's the CPUID summary of the Intel Atom 330 processor.
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CPU-Z screenshot.
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Unusually, mCubed's specifications include not only the hardware basics, but also temperature measurements under system load and power consumption as well.
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| Motherboard & Processor |
D945GCLF2 with Intel Atom
Dual Core 330
(2 x 1.60GHz, 533MHz FSB, 2x512kB Cache) |
| Chipset |
Intel® 945GC Express
Chipset |
| Memory |
1 GB RAM (up to 2GB) |
| Storage |
80 GB HDD 2.5"
(up to 1TB with two 2.5" drives) |
| Power Supply |
picoPSU with 90W (12V/7.5A) power
brick |
| Graphics |
Intel® GMA950 Graphics
Controller
with VGA & S-Video output |
| Audio |
Realtek ALC662 audio codec
(5.1 channel HD audio) |
| LAN |
Realtek Gigabit Ethernet |
| Dimensions |
23 x 24 x 7.5 cm |
| Weight |
2.8kg |
| Warranty |
12 months |
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Full Load Temperatures
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CPU Temperature
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56°C
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VGA Temperature
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39°C
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Bridge Temperature
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42°C
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Power Consumption
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Off
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0.5W
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Standby
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1.7W
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BIOS
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25W
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Windows Idle
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27W
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Full Load
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33W
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