A Sound Blaster AWE32 sound card from Creative Labs and ACS 31 speakers from Altec Lansing are also standard equipment. While the Dimension offers four free PCI slots, drive expansion is limited by the availability of only one full drive bay. And usability is somewhat compromised by the system's awkward design. System maintenance and upgrades are hampered by the five screws that must be removed to gain access to internal components. PC Computing 's lab technicians also found that the overly sensitive power and reset switches made accidental reboots a bit too easy.
Interior access is hampered by awkward case design.
No internal modem. Excellent price-performance combination. And feature for feature, its price stacks up squarely against the systems from both Dell and Polywell. Overall, the P5-166XL scored about 16 percent faster than our 133MHz baseline Pentium system. Unlike Polywell's Poly P5166T and Dell's Dimension XPS P166c, the P5-166XL uses the slower 1.6GB Caviar hard drive from Western Digital.