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Rick Rizner, John Goddard
The expandable MicroFlex 40A is a swift PC that offers good graphics performance and an attractive sound system.
Our test unit was packed with 2GB of DDR400 SDRAM and a 2.4-GHz Athlon 64 4000+ processor. This CPU isn't AMD's speediest, but the PC still posted a score of 118 on WorldBench 5--the second-fastest performance we've seen at this writing.
The MicroFlex 40A, running a Sapphire video card with ATI's Radeon X800 XT PE chip set, produced good, but not top-tier, graphics-test results. At 1280-by-1024 resolution in Return to Castle Wolfenstein, the system managed 131 frames per second; in Unreal Tournament 2003, it achieved 341 fps.
The PC's power is packed into a black-and-beige case with chrome- plated...