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- Cooler and Quieter Barebones PCs?
- The Mailman Has Arrived: Four Mini-PCs on the Test Bench
- Unevenly Matched Mini-Trio: MSI vs. Shuttle vs. Saintsong
- Battle of the Minis: Soltek vs. Shuttle
- Two New Mini-Powerhouses from Shuttle
- The Smallest of Them All: The P4/2400 Micro PC
- Whoohoo! A Mini PC That Goes To The Max
- Goodbye to Hulking PCs: Athlon Mini-PCs Set The Trend
12:03 PM - February 27, 2004 by
Roland Marianna
Source: Tom's Hardware US – Keywords: msi, mega, 180, mini
Topics: NVIDIA
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Source: Tom's Hardware US – Keywords: msi, mega, 180, mini
Topics: NVIDIA
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Cooling

To cool the motor, MSI has multiplied the air vents. These are big and well placed. The air vents in front cool the disks and memory and those in the back ventilate the processor, the video card and the power input.

To cool the processor and help air circulate inside, MSI has fitted the radiator with two fans. The radiator just has blades, not a heat pipe in sight.

When it is running, the system never overheats. Hot air is expelled by the power supply. The proportions are the same as on other mini-PCs. Noise is low, as on the previous model.
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