If you need only a little portability for your computer, e.g to take your system to occasional LAN party and you also want to retain all the power of desktop PC, to be able to run the latest games at maximum performance levels, desktop replacement laptop might not be the best solution. Here SFF - small form factor PCs - come to the rescue. With the size similar to that of a shoebox, SFF PCs can have all the components of the advanced gaming desktops as you could see in the Shuttle XPC 1337 SDXi gaming desktop.

But Shuttle is not the only one to produce SFF PCs. Another very interesting SFF system comes from enthusiast PC maker Falcon Northwest. We’ve already written about Fragbook TLX notebook packing lots of power inside and sporting beautiful flaming paintwork. Well, their SFF gaming system - Falcon FragBox II is also real good looking and powerful thing.

Starting at $2438 Falcon Fragbox II features:

Intel Core 2 Duo E6300 1.86 GHz CPU
1 GB 667 MHz RAM
nVidia GeForce 7600 GT graphics card with 256 MB of VRAM
Integrated on board audio (7.1 channel Sigmatel)
250GB SATA 2 HDD
18x DL WVW +-RW
Enermax Aurora Keyboard
Logitech G5 Laser Mouse

Already pretty impressive gaming PC. But with some additional cash (well, a lot of it really) you can make this one into a true multimedia and gaming beast. For $8563 you can get custom painted Falcon FragBox II SFF PC with:

Intel Core 2 Duo Extreme X6800 2.93 GHz CPU
4 GB 667 MHz RAM
nVidia GeForce 8800 GTS graphics card with 640 MB of VRAM
BFG PhysX Accelerator - 128 MB of memory
CLX Fi Soundcard
Raid 0
Two 750 GB SATA 2 hard drives
Plextor PX-B900ASWBL Blue Ray DVD/RW
Logitech G-15 Gaming Keyboard
Logitech G7 Cordless Laser Mouse
Wi-Fi G

As you can see Falcon FragBox II is truly powerful gaming PC, sporting lots of processing power, memory, storage and even Blue Ray Disc drive. And all of this is packed into a custom painted and really compact (10.75″(W) x 8″ (H)x14.75″ (D)) case. The case itself has a specially designed handle to making the FragBook easy to carry around. And how easy it will be depends of how much goodies you will cram inside. With different specs, Falcon FragBox II can weight anywhere from 8 to 22 lbs.