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As we mentioned earlier in the review, this system is based on an Asus F1A55-M LE motherboard. This features Asus' impressive UEFI interface which we believe is the best available on the market.
After pressing DEL to enter the BIOS, we are greeted by the simplified UEFI interface which provides some basic information and options for the system including fan control and boot priority.
Clicking the ‘Advanced Mode' button lets us access the usual array of configurable parameters. The AI Tweaker section features all the overclocking options although we wouldn't recommend overclocking this system without improving the cooling of the APU and general chassis airflow.
The Advanced section contains a few more settings letting us enable or disable various functions of the APU. On the Monitor page, we can see a variety of voltage and temperature readouts alongside some fan control options for the motherboard headers.
The UEFI also features a full selection of boot options and boasts Asus' EZ Flash 2 utility which lets the user update the BIOS very easily.
Quite a let down, not on a performance level, but why use a loud PSU in such an ideal media center system?
wow what a terrible system, why such a high score if the PSU is ultra loud? its ideal for a media center until this is factored in.
its not the psu its the heatsink and fan that runs at 4000rpm to fix that all you have to do is replace the cooler with a silent low profile cooler as some coolers can be very large just dont reuse the thermal compound and be sure to clean all the old off
Hi blaze dragon, it’s definitely the PSU in my review unit that makes the noise as I turned the CPU fan off for a moment and the noise was still present.
I bought one of this zoostorm pc from http://www.rossdigital.co.uk and i found it really good performance. I think they are better than HP and cheaper.
CPU’s don’t make any sound as it is attached to the motherboard what you all be hearing is the fan on the CPU but all these very rarely make a noise. What you will be hearing is the noise from the fan from the PSU (POWER SUPPLY UNIT) So if you want and clever enough you can change the fan on the PSU or get a new PSU FROM any computer shop. Good luck all
I bought a Zoostorm from Argos . I sent it back the next day ,I could not put up with the noise it was like having a leaf blowing machine in the room. worst pc on the market