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Review: Hush Technologies Mini-ITX PC

by Gordon Handley on 30 April 2003, 00:00 4.5

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Inside the Case

Inside the case reveals the heart of the Hush system. The first surprise is that one of the IDE cables is a rounded type which means that it will take up less room. This connects to the Laptop DVD/CDRW combo drive via a converter. The second IDE cable is the normal more common type which connects to the hard disk. The hard disk itself is encased in an aluminium casing which is connected to the inside of the main case so that any heat created by the hard disk is quickly transferred out.

Also you get to see the heatpipe solution for cooling the CPU (More on that later). You can see that the PCI slot is not in the normal place of 90° to the motherboard. A adapter is in the PCI slot meaning that any PCI card will be parallel to the motherboard and along side it you can see the extra USB and firewire ports. All the cabling is fairly tidy, and it's well laid out.