Apevia X-QPACK X-QPACK-NW-BK/420 - Desktop - micro ATX - power supply 420 Watt - black - USB/FireWire/Audio

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Product Details

• Item Weight: 9.7 pounds
• Shipping Weight: 9.7 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• ASIN: B000ER35Z6
• Item model number: X-QPACK-NW-BK/420
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Date first available at Amazon.com: June 12, 2006

Product Description

Product Description

If you are looking for a PC that is compact and dynamic that you can just grab it and go, then this Aspire X-QPACK is your perfect choice. The X-QPACK is designed with the idea of giving users to choose any Micro ATX motherboard and components in the market to build their own compact PC. With a built-in ATX 420W power supply, 5 x drive bays and a 120mm fan, this X-QPACK is powerful, cool yet quiet. Stylish, portable, dynamic and cute, Aspire X-QPACK has it all. Simplify your life with X-Qpack!

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

3.0 out of 5 stars Features good, but questionable as to what the case brings to the table, November 14, 2009

By	Fletch Hasues (TN) - See all my reviews

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The X-QPack is a computer case that brings alot of bells and whistles to the table. It gives you a smaller, as in space redestributed experience. One may question if there is anything avante garde about this as it doesn't really make a computer more compact. Sure, the case will not be as tall as other computer cases, but it will be much wider. The motherboard is fixed horizontally as opposed to standing up vertically, so if you consider the length of micro ATX mother boards + some space, that will be the width this case uses.
The case does present alot of features. Nice looking LEDs, a small notifier panel that displays the temperature of two leads...one to be your CPU, the other the hard drive. Includes a handle on the front that will allow you to carry the case to give you a feeling of portability....portability of a huge block. The case does vent itself well, and if your cables coming from your PSU and devices are long enough, the mainboard tray slides out which is key if you want to remove lengthy periphial cards and such as it is a cumbersome experience to remove any periphial from a computer case this size. It is important to note that this case uses standard ATX PSUs, which is key as many smaller cases are able to pull that off noting they have proprietary small PSUs.
The computer case however is not so rugged as one may think. Upon second use of mine, the power switch begain short circuiting and if one touched the front of the computer case, it would shut the computer off much like holding the power switch on for for seconds. This later gave way to mysterious problems forcing me to fully switch the case...note...the case, and not the PSU (as most of the time proves to be the culprit in situations where you are concerned with strange hardware problems. The case consistantly caused the computer to shut off periodically. In the end, I scrapped this case and switched to an Antec case (all be it a standard layout based one). However, I do not know if this was fluke in my case or just something to watch out for in other cases. If this was one computer to be built and there were no plans to upgrade to another mainboard layer, I may agree that this case could be a solution. However, in my experience, it just didn't work out.