The AVADirect Nano Cube ($1535 as of April 20, 2010) is a mainstream desktop in a small shell. It isn't the most full featured machine, but it makes up for its shortcomings by providing near category-leading performance.
The Nano Cube we reviewed is equipped with a 2.67GHz Core i5-750 processor and 4GB of RAM. Windows 7 Home Premium (64-bit) resides on the solid-state drive, which is capped at a paltry 120GB. Thanks to the quad-core processor and the speedy SSD, the Nano Cube earned a WorldBench 6 score of 134--a mark that ranks it among the upper echelons of the mainstream desktops we've reviewed.
The Nano Cube, bearing an ATI Radeon HD 5850 graphics card, delivered impressive gaming results. We saw an average of 102 frames per second in Unreal Tournament 3 at a resolution of 2560 by 1600 pixels; that tops the frame rate of both the Micro Express Microflex 75B (82 fps) and the CyberPower Gamer Xtreme 2000 (95 fps). Nevertheless, keep in mind that both of those machines are more flexible should you choose to upgrade your graphics card later on.
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