Despite the mouthful of a name, the Systemax P933RV is a well-built system with some good, sensible component choices. On opening the case, which unfortunately is not tool-free, the interior is tidily laid out with all components easily accessible.

At the heart of the unit is an Asus CULS2-C motherboard using an Intel 815EP chipset, a 933MHz Pentium III processor and 128MB of PC133MHz memory. Two remaining DIMM slots allow up to a maximum of 512MB of memory to be installed.

Simply hasn't joined the headlong rush to use an Nvidia-based graphics controller in the Systemax P933RV, instead using a 16MB Matrox G450 Dual Head controller, with dual output for a second monitor, which could potentially be useful in an office for multi-screen presentations.

The 30GB Maxtor hard drive provides storage, is an ATA/100 unit and sits in one of the three 3.5-inch drive bays, another being occupied by the floppy drive while the third remains empty. Housed in one of the three 5.25-inch drive bays is the 16-speed DVD-ROM drive, leaving the other bays free for upgrades.

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Two of the five PCI slots are occupied, by the 10/100 Ethernet adapter and by the Creative PCI 128 soundcard. There are four USB ports, two supplied directly from the motherboard and another two on a riser board, which is plenty for any system, and particularly for a corporate box like this.

Simply supplies the Systemax P933RV with Windows 2000 pre-installed and there's also Lotus SmartSuite Millennium as part of the software bundle. A copy of McAfee Antivirus V5.13, along with a Recovery CD, is also supplied, but full manageability features are conspicuous by their absence.

The Simply Systemax P933RV Premier is a well-built and sensibly priced system with room for hardware upgrades should that be necessary, but not much in the way of manageability.