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32 reviews
Jun, 2025
alaTest has collected and analyzed 32 reviews of Foxconn RS233. The average rating for this product is 4.6/5, compared to an average rating of 4.1/5 for other Desktops for all reviews.
We analyzed user and expert ratings, product age and more factors. Compared to other Desktops the Foxconn RS233 is awarded an overall alaScore™ of 80/100 = Very good quality.
Consumer review (newegg.com)
after over 1 year, working good
none so far
Consumer review (newegg.com)
I'm using this with no HD or optical drive along with a USB stick loaded with ZeroShell as a home router. Works great, replaced the 8 year old desktop that was doing the job previously.
Small, very quiet, exactly as advertised
None that I have found yet
Consumer review (newegg.com)
The graphic abilities on this are low, which suggests why we sell it at such a low price. But the few that were complained about brought in additional sales through upgrades and PCI video cards.
Cheap and cost effective. Since the end of November, I have assembled about 20 of these, and all but 1 flew off the shelf. That one had XP on it, and the rest had Win7
None that I can see
Consumer review (newegg.com)
I've been running Ubuntu server on this and I'm really happy with it.
Compact. Has a good feature set. Though not stunning, it does look sharp
The plastic tabs on the front cover are somewhat fragile. (a friend accidentally snapped one off) Getting the hard drive in is not the most enlightened process, but it works fine
Consumer review (newegg.com)
I plan to buy quite a few more of these. At this price these things are a bargain.
Great price for such a well built little box. I was really shocked at the construction and sense of quality that it held when I received it
Tabs on front cover are a bit flimsy, care needs to be taken when removing it
Consumer review (newegg.com)
Counting two R10-S4 dual core models this is the third build of this type I've done so far. I'm using them for light server work, running CentOS 5.4.
Unproblematic product. It's easy to install two hard disks (using a mounting bracket in the 5.25" bay), add some memory, a GbE card ; CPU and hard drives stay cool even under load
Limited expandability. Graphics problematic on new Linux distributions (Ubuntu 9.10 and OpenSuSE 11.2 will hang doing 3D operations)
Consumer review (newegg.com)
Over a great little box. Quick enough, responsive, and cool enough to run in a warm retail environment.
We use these as point of sale computers. Mainly to run citrix or terminal services over dsl. With XP Pro as the os they boot fast and are very responsive. for the price if one breaks (which has not yet happened) you dont feel bad about taking the hdd...
It's been said. Those little plastic tabs that hold the fron bezel on are flimsy so be careful
Consumer review (newegg.com)
I might try a more silent PS fan, but it's fairly quiet already. I'm using it to play music, loaded Ubuntu 9.04 and it works great. DO NOT load 9.10 as it crashes on this machine. Analog only video looks great on a 19" at 1440x900. I picked up a used...
Small, cheap, works well. After looking through my box of spare parts I decided to build a new music computer. The Foxconn works great ; I dropped in a spare SATA HD, gig of memory, SATA DVD, and 3.5" card reader and voila, a nice little computer for...
plastic tabs, tight install. I broke one of the tabs and had to tape the bottom of the front bezel. Using expansion card would be tough, it's very tight. SATA only, no IDE, but that's OK. My memory just barely fit, height-wise
Consumer review (newegg.com)
One question though. Is it possible to upgrade the CPU to a faster one? If so, I need some guidance.
It went together easily, works well. I borrowed an external CD drive to install Windows XP Pro
There's not a lot of room, but I knew that going in. Is the blue light supposed to blink
Consumer review (newegg.com)
The HDD idles in the lo 30C range. CPU idles in the lo 40C range. The case fan is currently sitting on 1771 RPM. I haven't had a problem with it being too loud as other reviewers mentioned, and I sleep a few feet from it. Great reliable machine so...
Great little machine. Sits nicely on a shelf running 24/7 as an ssh/backup server, and random script... runner? :-) Popped in a gig of ram and 160gb HDD I had laying around, and it's running smooth. It's got Debian Lenny x86_64 installed right now, and...
The case is more flimsy than sturdy, but I've seen much worse ; I wish I had a power meter to gauge it's power usage ; 10/100Mpbs LAN speed ; The blue power LED is pretty bright ; Installing the components is pretty tricky, but nothing horrible or...
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