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ZT Systems Affinity 7225Xi: loads of extras buoy this inexpensive desktop.(REVIEWS: DESKTOPS)(Product/service evaluation)(Brief article)

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| September 01, 2008 | Murray, Matthew | COPYRIGHT 2008 SX2 Media Labs LLC. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

WITH BUDGET DESKTOPS, it's not wise to hope for much more than a decent price: Performance from systems costing less than $750 is often adequate at best. But ZT Systems' Affinity 7225Xi is an exception to the rule.

After you purchase the $749.99 machine, you can go to the ZT Systems Web site and claim a rebate that will also net you an 80GB Maxtor OneTouch 4 Mini portable hard drive, the PC Mover migration utility (for moving files, programs, and settings from your old computer to your new one), and a D-Link DGL4300 GameLounge wireless gaming router--all in all, more than $200 of additional value.

But even discounting the premiums, the Affinity 7225Xi still comes across well. With its 2.4GHz Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600 processor, 4GB of DDR2 RAM, a 500GB hard drive, a 512MB ATI Radeon HD 3450 graphics card, and Windows Vista Home Premium, the system is well-equipped in terms of hardware, and it kept pace with machines costing almost twice as much in our benchmark tests (except in gaming, where it's rather far ...

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