Quantex QP6/450 SB-4

SUMMARY

PRO: Very fast, spacious hard drive, large monitor
CON: Fair support quality

Helping the first-place Dell spoil the Pentium III picnic is Quantex's QP6/450 SB-4. This $2299 business graphics system flashes a PC WorldBench 98 score of 250, as befits its Pentium II-450 processor and Windows NT 4.0 operating system.

The SB-4's 16.8GB hard disk gives you plenty of space for storing high-resolution graphics files (which you can view on the spacious 19-inch monitor), and the Number Nine Revolution IV graphics board packs a whopping 32MB of RAM--some PCs have less system RAM. These features, plus a network card, will make this midtower welcome in many offices.

But more doesn't always mean better. For most users, even business-graphics professionals, 8MB of graphics RAM is plenty. Most of the additional memory goes to texturing, which no business program (and few games) can take advantage of. Quantex offers fairly standard support policies--a three-year parts/one-year labor warranty and around-the-clock phone support. In our anonymous calls to the company's technical support line, we waited for about 20 minutes, on average, before speaking with a technician. Quantex representatives proved reasonably helpful, though they didn't always nail our more difficult questions.

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