ABIT DigiDice Barebone Review

By Ian Bell Published March 28, 2004

Quote from the review at Digit-Life:

“When ABIT announced its entering the SFF (Small Form Factor) PC market (at the end of summer of 2003), the first published information caused a lot of dispute. The support for two 5.25″ devices, two hard drives and two PCI expansion cards was taken as manna from heaven or as an arrival of an antichrist into the SFF market. Soltek added a second 5″ bay to the Shuttle-like models, and now ABIT adds a second PCI slot… as a result, DigiDice is twice bigger than any Shuttle XPC in the G2 case. Plus a mysterious screen (for that moment) on the front panel, which appeared after the announcement of MSI Mega PC, i.e. we can expect incredible functionality.”

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