HP Pavilion Elite HPE-180 home desktop PC
Posted February 18th, 2010 by admin No Comments »
By Leo Waldock (via reghardware.co.uk)
The Pavilion Elite HPE-180 stands at the pinnacle of the HP’s home PC line-up and sports spec to match. It has a 2.80GHz Intel Core i7-860 processor, 8GB of DDR 3 memory, a Blu-ray combo drive and, to make use of all that memory, 64-bit Windows 7 Home Premium.
HP’s Pavilion Elite HPE-180: merlot trim? More vin de table than premier cru
There’s a question mark hanging over the unbranded “special edition” Nvidia GeForce GTX 260 graphics card as it only supports DirectX 10. That’s something of a shame as AMD has a range of DirectX 11 cards. So from the start, the HPE-180 isn’t quite as elite as its branding – and more importantly, its price – might suggest.
You won’t be able to tell from the photos but the front of the case is well endowed with ports and connectors as they are covered by flaps and stealth doors. Read the rest of this entry »
