ECS' creation looks more like a nettop than a fully-fledged desktop PC

Feb 8, 2012 14:45 GMT  ·  By

Even though they aren’t as popular as its motherboards, ECS also builds and sells a series of compact desktop PCs designed around various Intel platforms, such as the ECS BR95IIX that recently popped up online featuring Intel Sandy Bridge processors.

The compact computer, which resembles a nettop more than a fully-fledged SNB desktop PC, has showed up on the FCC website earlier this week, where it was spotted by liliputing.

Together with the ECS BR95IIX, the FCC also received the computer’s manual. This reveals that the system measures a compact 8.9x7.6x1.9 inches (22.6x19.3x4.8 cm) and that is was designed to fit in a living room environment as easily as in an office.

Moving past the exterior of this PC, we find that ECS has decided to power the SFF desktop with dual-core Sandy Bridge CPUs from the Core i3 or Core i5 product ranges, which are paired with 2GB of system memory.

Users can however choose to populate the DRAM slots found inside the chassis with 4GB RAM modules to reach a total of 8GB of system memory.

The rest of the specs list includes a support for 2.5-inch hard drives with up to 640GB of storage space, a pair of USB 2.0 and two USB 3.0 ports, a Gigabit Ethernet jack, a card reader and an ExpressCard slot.

The BR95IIX can be connected to an HDTV or a projector using the VGA and HDMI outputs found in the rear of the system.

Besides the Gigabit Ethernet connection, the ECS BR95IIX has an internal 802.11a/g/n WiFi card. For added security, a fingerprint reader rounds up the specs of this ECS small form factor PC.

So far, the ECS hasn’t announced this Sandy Bridge powered computer, so we have no clue about its pricing or availability date.

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