The name may not be familiar to many, but Systemax has a lot going for it with its Endeavor BTO 038669 workstation. The case of the system is quite big and it comes with locks for the front and side panels. Powering the workstation is a Supermicro X7DA3+ motherboard that has two CPU sockets. It has dual Intel gigabit Ethernet ports, eight DDR2 RAM sockets and three PCI-X slots. The reviewer noted that the system is missing a FireWire port - though this will hardly be an issue for users who have migrated to AVCHD, P2 or a hard drive-based camcorder. The system is quite loud, due to the two 80mm front fans, a 120mm rear fan, an 80mm fan in the power supply and a CPU cooler fan. It comes with two Seagate 250GB 7200rpm drives as its boot volume, and it includes two mirrored Seagate 500GB 7200rpm drives as its data volume. Bench tests showed that the striped set transferred data at 79.6-140.3MB/sec, averaging 113.8MB/sec. It comes with preinstalled software such as Adobe Reader 8 and Nero 7 Essentials. All in all, the Endeavor BTO 038669 is a workstation that can handle pretty much anything that’s thrown at it.