Features and Performance
The processor, a dual core one, is not the current gen Core 2 Duo which Intel is advertising heavily (And rightly so. It’s the best line of desktop and mobile processors today). Rather, it belongs to its predecessor, the Pentium D. Nevertheless it’s not a bad option, though one could have opted for AMD’s X2, as they sell for just a little more and offer better performance. Another advantage with the X2 is support for better onboard graphic chipsets in the form of Nvidia’s 6150. More so, as the chassis and in fact most of the other media center chassis', don’t have space to let you plug in a normal sized graphics card unless you use a riser card. Chassis' that let you do that normally are far more expensive and cost at least Rs. 10,000. With Sahara you will have to stick, with whatever you have, at least for the first year when the warranty is active, but opening the chassis will void it.
We liked the chassis, both internally and externally. On the outside it is completely black with a steel volume knob that accentuates its looks. It has a seven segment display in the front to give you information such as, which track is playing or what channel you are watching. The display uses a dark blue backlight, which when viewed in a lit room is almost unreadable. The front panel neatly encloses a section for the card reader, another for input ports like USB and audio and the third for the optical drive. Internally the chassis is well laid out and well ventilated. Upon inspecting the temperatures, we observed that the processor idled at around 42 degrees and went up to 50 degrees at load. That’s very good for a Pentium D that too in a media center chassis that generally is crammed.
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