By Dave James
There’s little doubt that were you to purchase this wee box of gaming joy from XMG, you’d be as happy as a badger at a barbecue pulling the Prime from its box.
It’s a quality gaming PC all the way from components to build to performance; but then it really ought to be considering you’re paying nigh-on £2,000 for the privilege.
But a privilege it would be to own such a machine.
The Fractal Design Node 304 chassis is as sleek and minimally stylish a Mini-ITX case as you could want, and being finished with the Nvidia-green highlights gives it a little edge, too. It’s a visually pleasing system and also one that won’t take up too much space.
You’re not sacrificing any functionality or performance opting for this smaller form factor.
Thanks to advances in motherboard technology and miniaturised case designs, the Mini-ITX motherboard is more than a match for its full-scale brethren and is the only compromise to diminutive components that you need to make. Everything else XMG has crammed into the Prime is standard ATX size, whether that’s power supply, CPU cooler or graphics card.
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Source: techradar.com – PC and Mac
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