First Look Review: Xi MTower 64SLI

Desktop workstation provides customization and expandability options along with speedy performance.

@Xi Computer sent Cadalyst one of its new systems for use in testing for our annual round-up of large monitors to come in the September 2006 print edition. The Xi MTower 64SLI system featured an Asus M2N32-SLI DLX motherboard with the NVIDIA nForce 590 chipset and a single dual-core AMD Athlon FX-62 2.8GHz processor -- the first one to come through Cadalyst Labs for testing.  Read more >>p>

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