HP Compaq

HP Compaq 8200 Elite USDT

22.05.12

Design and Features
The 8200 Elite USDT is small enough (2.6 by 9.9 by 10 inches, HWD) to hide under a desk or in a cubbyhole, but it still retains some full-size components, like its Intel Core i5-2500S processor. Though the system is compact, there's still a little room inside. The system has two SO-DIMM slots for memory (one is filled), and the system has an MXM graphics card slot. MXM was designed for use in laptops and other small-form-factor machines as strictly an interior solution (it offers no external ports); it really hasn't taken off the way designers thought it would in the mid 2000s. Here it's used for configuring 8200 Elites with discrete graphics. On one hand this means that ultra-slim desktop (USDT) and ultra-small-form-factor (USFF) machines like the 8200 Elite can be equipped with optional discrete graphics at the factory. On the other, third-party MXM graphics cards are difficult to find, so you probably won't be upgrading the systems after purchase. The MXM card slot in this review unit is unoccupied, so the system uses the i5-2500S's integrated Intel HD 2000 Graphics.

Source: PC Magazine