Photopium opened this issue on Feb 18, 2010 · 19 posts
Photopium posted Thu, 18 February 2010 at 11:09 AM
What a nightmare, by the way.
On board video is not twin dvi, one vga one dvi...ug.
On board sound blows, so I've got my x-fi platinum card installed. Now get this..there's no audio out on the dvd rw drive they gave me. It's a sata drive...I guess the audio out is going through the sata cable? Either way, the xfi card needs the old-school audio in cable...so I had to tear out the new drive and put in my old sony.
The power supply, soon to be changed, is 300 w and the cords are arranged in such a way as to make hooking up anything impossible (let alone the impossibility of inserting my old drives into the machine, due to the processor blocking any sane pathway.
This was my first venture into buying a pre-fab computer. It's a ZT Affinity. The innards seem to be made of good stuff, but the arrangement/case/supply is terrible.
I think next time I'll go back to building my own.
This was a pretty good deal though...699 for the box.