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Velocity Micro Edge Z15
Created: 10/14/2008
Video description: Velocity Micro's Edge Z15 represents one of the best deals we've seen this year in midrange gaming PCs. It has all the power necessary to play current games (even 'Crysis') at smooth frame rates, and its clean, spacious interior gives you plenty of upgrade room. We recommend this system to any PC gamer looking for a sub-$2,000 desktop.

Velocity Micro Edge Z15 Video Transcript

[ Music ]

>>Hi, I'm Rich Brown, Senior Editor for CNET.com. Today we're gonna take a look at the Velocity Micro Edge Z15. This is an Editor's choice winning gaming PC. We really like this thing. It's well designed. It's smartly configured. It pretty much shows off what Velocity Micro does best. It's pretty straight forward design. That's one of the things we love about Velocity. Those guys really keep it simple. There's a media card reader on the front, dual air DVD drive right here, you have a couple of options online if you go to configure it. But otherwise it's just a nice, clean looking, powerful looking PC. As you can see the inside looks just as clean as the outside. Everything is bound perfectly, nice and tight. There's no cables flopping around. You could eat lunch in here. It's just a really nice looking PC. There's an overclocked quad-core chip under here, nice big 750 giga hard drive here, 2 mid-range ATI grapher's cards here and 4 gigs of ram. It's a 64 but this is a system, like most PC's these days, and it really delivered strong bang for the buck on our benchmarks. So overall this system is smartly configured, it's well put together. It pretty much delivers on all fronts. [Background music] I'm Rich Brown, this is the Editor's choice winning Velocity Micro Edge Z15. [ Music ]

Velocity Micro Edge Z15 Review
Editors' rating
Very good
Avg user rating
Abysmal
1.0
out of 10

The good: Fast CPU and 3D-card combo; immaculate build quality; lots of room to upgrade.

The bad: Spare design may bore those looking for a flashy gaming PC; onsite support costs extra.

The bottom line: Velocity Micro's Edge Z15 represents one of the best deal's we've seen this year in midrange gaming PCs. It has all the power necessary to play current games (even Crysis) at smooth frame rates, and its clean, spacious interior gives you plenty of upgrade room. We recommend this system to any PC gamer looking for a sub-$2,000 desktop.

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Velocity Micro Edge Z15 User Opinions
1 out of 10
Abysmal
I had problems with the computer locking up less than 1 month after recieving it.... Read more
by NDXpat, March 10, 2008
Velocity Micro Edge Z15 Specs

Manufacturer: Velocity Micro
Part number: EDGEZ15

Product Specifications
  • Product Description
  • Velocity Micro Edge Z15 - Core 2 Duo E6750 2.66 GHz

  • Type
  • Personal computer

  • Product Form Factor
  • Tower

  • Dimensions (WxDxH)
  • 8.3 in x 19.3 in x 17.8 in

  • Processor
  • 1 x Intel Core 2 Duo E6750 / 2.66 GHz ( Dual-Core )

  • Cache Memory
  • 4 MB L2 cache

  • Cache Per Processor
  • 4 MB

  • RAM
  • 2 GB (installed) / 8 GB (max) - DDR2 SDRAM - 800 MHz - PC2-6400

  • Storage Controller
  • RAID ( Serial ATA-300 ) ; IDE

  • Hard Drive
  • 1 x 500 GB - Standard - Serial ATA-300

  • Hard Drive (2nd)
  • - None

Product Basic Spec
  • RAM installed
  • 2 GB DDR2 SDRAM

  • Cache size - type
  • 4 MB L2 cache

  • Hard drive
  • 500 GB Standard

  • 2nd hard drive
  • None

  • CD / DVD drive
  • DVD?RW (+R DL) IDE

  • 2nd optical storage type
  • CD-RW / DVD-ROM combo

  • Monitor type - technology - form factor
  • None.

  • Video RAM installed
  • 512 MB

  • Graphics Processor / Vendor
  • NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GT

  • Audio output
  • Integrated Sound card

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