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Accessing the inside of the system is a little more difficult than with a normal PC. It requires the removal of four separate screws; two hex screws on the top of the unit and two regular screws on the bottom which are covered with small plastic covers. The whole PC assembly can then be slid carefully out the back of the wooden case. The four cables connecting the system to the driver units in the front of the case must be removed before the PC assembly can be removed completely, though.
All of the components are mounted on a single sheet of thick metal which has been folded into shape. It has been painted white and has various slots and screw holes cut into it for all the components. It's an ingeniously simple design and seems to be very effective.
The system features a Gigabyte H67N-USB3-B3 Mini-ITX motherboard which is mounted on the floor of the system. It features an Intel Core i3-2100 CPU which is a dual core model that runs at 3.1 GHz. You can opt to upgrade this to an i5-2500K or an i7-2600K if you like but, at present, there are no Ivy Bridge alternatives. The CPU is cooled using an Intel reference cooler.
Other components include 4 GB of Kingston dual channel DDR3-1333 memory, a slot loading DVD-RW drive and a 500 GB 7200RPM hard drive and an OEM 400W power supply. There are a couple of other upgrade options available including adding an AMD Radeon HD 7750 graphics card and an extra 4 GB of memory, giving the system a total of 8 GB.
Considering the OPC has been designed and manufactured by a company who specialise in guitar amps, it's not surprising that it features a whole host of audio hardware that we've never seen on a PC before. It has a built in dedicated audio interface which lets you plug a guitar and microphone into the top of the system and record in 24-bit audio with 1 ms latency. The system also features a built in Orange solid state amplifier.
In the front of the system there are two 6.5” JBL Studio Reference speakers which pack quite a punch.
