Dell unveils mutant XPS gaming PC
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By Tony Smith
12th May 2006 09:50 GMT
Dell yesterday unwrapped a special "collector's" edition XPS gaming PC designed to cash in on the hype surrounding the third X-Men movie, which opens in cinemas later this month. Like the XPS 600 Renegade system announced earlier this year, the X-Men model is expected to cost a whopping $10,000.
The new machine sports Dell's redesigned XPS casing - the look is based on a stylised 'X' - cut from aluminium, equipped with "state-of-the-art thermal engineering" and angled forward. It features the usual array of chassis lights favoured by gamers, this time in any of seven user-selectable colours. The front of the box is coloured too, in dark blue or dark red to match the colour-scheme of Dell's recently announced XPS notebooks.
Alas, Dell didn't provide a spec for the machine, but the X-Men: The Last Stand version, which is custom-painted with the movie logo, features an Intel Pentium Extreme Edition 965 dual-core processor and four Nvidia GeForce 7900 boards in Quad SLI mode. The spec is likely to match that of the XPS 600 Renegade Dell launched earlier this year. ® -
10 THOUSAND US DOLLARS leh...who wants to buy.
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Dell starts selling $9,900 overclocked gaming PC
By Tony Smith
22nd March 2006 16:38 GMT
Dell today starts taking orders for its "limited edition" XPS 600 Renegade quad SLI, physics engine-equipped desktop gaming rig. The kit will set you back a whopping $9,930, although this includes Dell's 30in LCD monitor.
The XPS 600 Renegade comes in a custom-painted case inside which sit four GeForce 7900 GPUs each with 512MB of video memory ready to run games at 2,560 x 1,600. The unit also features an Ageia PhysX processor on which games can offload all their complex physics calculations to free up the CPU - a dual-core Pentium D Extreme Edition "factory overclocked" to 4.26GHz, no less - for stuff like artificial intelligence work.
Dell has put a SoundBlaster X-Fi Fatal1ty sound card in the box, which also houses a Western Digital 160GB, 10,000rpm Raptor hard drive and - in case you run out of room - a second WD HDD, a 400GB, 7,200rpm job. There's 2GB of dual-channel 667MHz DDR 2 connected to the CPU via an Nvidia nForce 4 SLI chipset.
All this, plus the 30in 3007WFP monitor, comes to $9,930, but Dell has a range of lesser specced machines for gamers on a tighter budget. And it is offering the Ageia physics controller on its regular XPS 600 and XPS 400 desktops in versions priced at $2,039 and $1,239, respectively.
At time of writing the machine had yet to appear as a purchase option on its US website. ® -
casing is on fire!!!
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My Dream PC
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Omg so ex...
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WA LAU EH
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yar.. then when spoil... must send pc all the way to malaysia..
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For rich, hardcore gamers only. The rest of us can only dream
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but i dont really believe in dell ...
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oh my, that is so expensive!!
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maybe mutants buy got discount.Originally posted by nightzip:10 THOUSAND US DOLLARS leh...who wants to buy. -
Look at the specs.... its like juz buying the brand and something to brag to your friends where in reality u got no way to put that system to full usage.
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Lol, outdated liao lor.
Now got Conroe for pentium liao. 7900GT only, also not 7900GTX...
But still too good for anyone to use la