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Dell Unveils New XPS Gaming Desktop

rainofwalrus — Wed, 10 Jan 2007 13:11:48 MST

anyone who says this is "overkill" clearly hasn't played Flight Simulator 10 yet.

five words: 11 FPS on lowest setting.

rainofwalrus

Dell Unveils New XPS Gaming Desktop

Deth — Tue, 09 Jan 2007 23:50:37 MST

What bugs me the most about Dell (and this computer specifically) is all of the bloatware/malware/crapware that comes preinstalled. I bet that computer runs at 70% capability when first turned on.

It will take many hours to get it running optimally, and then when you want to reinstall windows, guess what? You have to use Dells crap windows CD that contains all of the junk you spent hours fixing.
Cheers!

Deth

Dell Unveils New XPS Gaming Desktop

xerxes7 — Tue, 09 Jan 2007 22:33:01 MST

All I want to know is will my hookshot be able to grab onto that grating on the front or is it that kind of grating that hookshots can't grab onto when it would allow me to go somewhere I wasn't supposed to go?

xerxes7

Dell Unveils New XPS Gaming Desktop

Thrasher — Tue, 09 Jan 2007 17:48:55 MST

I think the best part of the design is the all heat from the tec cooler is being dumped right into the case. And peltiers are inefficient at cooling and dump off ALLOT of heat.

And a similar CoolIt cooling system (hell its likely manufactured by CoolIt) costs 200-300 dollars.

Thrasher

Dell Unveils New XPS Gaming Desktop

Desi — Tue, 09 Jan 2007 17:44:36 MST

@Kadawg

That is why they are both sexy. Like having your own server.

Desi

Dell Unveils New XPS Gaming Desktop

cath0de — Tue, 09 Jan 2007 16:53:34 MST

This story reminded me of a blog post a while discussing the on the conversations VoodooPC's president had with Michael Dell in the period leading up to Dell's Alienware purchase.

Dell has become a huge company due to WalMart-esque efficiency... not innovation. They are really clueless on gaming in general. Its kind of ironic that they are now spending money to market a PC that will compete with the Alienware brand. They need to choose which brand to go with and throw everythign they have at the high-end PC market.

This isn't a demographic they should give up on quite yet... I beleive high-end gaming PCs will see alot more sales growth in the future. Alot of PC gamers do not have the time (and $ constraints) that forced them to build PCs in their youth. I can only speak for myself, but now that I replaced a long line of "jobs" with a "career"(cue synical snickering), I have less time to feed my gamming addiction. I appreciate the value in buying a loaded gaming PC I wont have to worry about updating, servicing, soddering, ect.

Sure, some of my h4x0r friends rag on my shiny boutique box (no, it isnt that monstrosity dell makes), but they dont work 8am-9pm every day.

Just my 2c... I kind of got off-topic, but the VoodooPC blog link is below if anyone is interested:

http://voodoopc.blogspot.com/2006/08/where-theres-smoke-th...

cath0de

Dell Unveils New XPS Gaming Desktop

Kdawg — Tue, 09 Jan 2007 16:26:31 MST

I was thinking space heater too! It's the PS3/Foreman Grill equivalent in the PC gaming world.

Kdawg

Dell Unveils New XPS Gaming Desktop

aphexacid — Tue, 09 Jan 2007 15:26:59 MST

I heard it also comes with the new CTW interface port. thats worth the 6K alone.
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.....CTW = Control the world. :)

aphexacid

Dell Unveils New XPS Gaming Desktop

Ilia Chentsov — Tue, 09 Jan 2007 15:13:15 MST

Is that the front panel? How's the optical drive is supposed to get out?

Ilia Chentsov

Dell Unveils New XPS Gaming Desktop

sailentshadow — Tue, 09 Jan 2007 15:03:06 MST

so... basically

people are paying 5.5 grand... for something I can get for 3.5?

why the hell do you need 4GB RAM? That's murder... it's not needed, and is too much shit to deal with.

they HAVE to overclock the quadcore, or else people would complain the dualcores are beating them('since there isn't anything that supports quadcore, YET)

dual g80's, mehhh, just wait, the prices will go down, r600 anyone?

Like I said

CUSTOM FOR THE WIN BITCHES!

sailentshadow

Dell Unveils New XPS Gaming Desktop

Dave Silva — Tue, 09 Jan 2007 14:59:01 MST

... that thing looks like a waffle iron.

Dave Silva

Dell Unveils New XPS Gaming Desktop

Cell9song — Tue, 09 Jan 2007 14:45:13 MST

I believe its a shiny space heater...

thats was my observation as well in that Dell/1Up thread

Cell9song

Dell Unveils New XPS Gaming Desktop

Ixero — Tue, 09 Jan 2007 14:43:16 MST

I wouldn't say no gamer buy's dell gaming machines. I know alot of gamers with Dell gaming PC's, I even have one and it works great, no problems. Honestly, this machine compared to a alienware is pretty budget. Dell kept the price pretty damn low for a high end gaming machine. if you notice that they offer only 667mhz dimms while alienware offers 800mhz dimms, that's pretty much $300 off the price tag. After your done configuring your alienware your price tag is close to 7k easy, while your dell is under 6k. Plus your getting a lquid cooling unit out of the deal, to me that's a damn good deal.

I hope that cooling unit isn't a koolance. That would suck major ass.

Ixero

Dell Unveils New XPS Gaming Desktop

harukio — Tue, 09 Jan 2007 14:20:04 MST

I believe that's a shiny space heater...

harukio

Dell Unveils New XPS Gaming Desktop

futurebiblehero — Tue, 09 Jan 2007 14:01:29 MST

I'm not sure what it looks like most: stage gear, an electric heater or a dialysis system for Cylons. Who could put that monstrosity on their desk and get away with it?

futurebiblehero

Dell Unveils New XPS Gaming Desktop

omgjuicyjuice — Tue, 09 Jan 2007 13:51:53 MST

if they own alienware, why are they releasing a dell branded gaming pc again? i know the xps line is their gaming line or whatever, but cereal guys, cereal. no pc gamer i know would buy a dell...most of em' make thier own pc's anyway. buy still, i'd like to see what sort of demographic bothers to waste money on this.

omgjuicyjuice

Dell Unveils New XPS Gaming Desktop

Brendar — Tue, 09 Jan 2007 13:51:36 MST

I agree with rainfowalrus, I bought a Dell Gen 3 XPS two and a half years ago and I can still play Company of Heroes and BF2142 with no problems.

However, I only paid $2500 for my comp, $5500 seems a little extreme for something to play games on (as someone else mentioned above.)

Brendar

Dell Unveils New XPS Gaming Desktop

dosboot — Tue, 09 Jan 2007 13:49:08 MST

Man is this stuff ever ridiculous. Not only is everything marked up in price, all the components are far too powerful for what anyone actually needs. 1.2k on freaking graphics cards!? For a few hundred dollars you could have a very, very good graphics card that will play any game smoothly with reasonable settings. Also notice they add the little disclaimer that you won't even be able to access all of your 4 GB of memory with the preinstalled OS!

Everyone in the target market (PC gamers) is either already building their own PC's or is on their way towards learning how. It's only a rapidly dwindling population of people that are ignorant enough to buy these things. So the strategy of these companies is to milk them for all their worth while they still can.

dosboot

Dell Unveils New XPS Gaming Desktop

joeymojo — Tue, 09 Jan 2007 13:47:31 MST

baberg, you're missing the cost of a TEC and water cooling system, plus the cost of bundled software... You're still paying an 800$ premium for DELL support which may or not be worth it..

Stil, 1400$ for a 27" flat panel with 6ms response time and 1920x1200 aint too bad, especially considering it'll get discounted in the future.

joeymojo

Dell Unveils New XPS Gaming Desktop

EnigmaNemesis — Tue, 09 Jan 2007 13:46:20 MST

Yeah, they'll get a free upgrade to the crappiest version of Vista.

isn't that in all versions of Vista!

:-p

EnigmaNemesis

Dell Unveils New XPS Gaming Desktop

Uh_Oh — Tue, 09 Jan 2007 13:45:49 MST

That's way too much for a system. Just learn to build one from scratch and save yourself a lot of money in the long run. These systems I always feel put the wrong impression on new pc gamers.

Uh_Oh

Dell Unveils New XPS Gaming Desktop

dead_red_eyes — Tue, 09 Jan 2007 13:45:01 MST

Yeah, they'll get a free upgrade to the crappiest version of Vista.

dead_red_eyes

Dell Unveils New XPS Gaming Desktop

Rectangle — Tue, 09 Jan 2007 13:34:38 MST

"All that power and it only comes with Windows Media Center Edition?"

Vista hasn't been released yet. All computers bought right now with XP include a free upgrade to Vista when it is released.

Rectangle

Dell Unveils New XPS Gaming Desktop

Quattuor — Tue, 09 Jan 2007 13:34:33 MST

Holy hell, that's one ugly box.

Quattuor

Dell Unveils New XPS Gaming Desktop

rainofwalrus — Tue, 09 Jan 2007 13:31:26 MST

movie stars, pro atheletes, and various other multi-millionaires wont flinch at buying this badboy.

when will DELL get smart and do a Louis Vuitton Edition?

p.s. This rig will not be obsolete in 6 months. It will be completely badass for 3-4 years. 5 years if you don't mind Medium-to-Low settings when DX13/SM5.0 is released.

rainofwalrus

Dell Unveils New XPS Gaming Desktop

HJungle — Tue, 09 Jan 2007 13:24:15 MST

I love PC gaming, so much so that I kept my old 1 ghz machine simply to play DOS games that Windows XP is scared of. This brings me to my point: there's lots of old games out there that can be played on really simple machines...how many new games are worth close to six grand? The PC gaming industry isn't exactly booming right now...

Ah well, it'll make a nice contest prize, I'm sure (also if someone were to just give me one I don't think I'd complain ;)

HJungle

Dell Unveils New XPS Gaming Desktop

usedtabe — Tue, 09 Jan 2007 13:23:51 MST

I was thinking the same thing as Anonononomous, why not go ahead and bundle vista with all that?

usedtabe

Dell Unveils New XPS Gaming Desktop

BubbRubb — Tue, 09 Jan 2007 13:23:19 MST

lmao @ spending $5500 on a DELL! if you are going to drop that kind of cash on a cutting edge pc at least have the brains to buy it from a high end boutique like voodoo.

spending that much for a dell is like going to ruby tuesdays for one of their "prime" steaks instead of eating at a place like prime 112.

BubbRubb

Dell Unveils New XPS Gaming Desktop

baberg — Tue, 09 Jan 2007 13:22:06 MST

All prices from Pricewatch

Intel QX6700: ~$1000
2x GeForce 8800 GTX: ~$1200
4x 667MHz DDR2 1gb: ~$400
2x 160gb SATA drives: ~$150
2x "optical" drives (WTF?): ~$50
Dell Widescreen 20": ~$300
Motherboard (not listed): ~$400 (upper end estimate)
Other "extras" including case: ~$300

Total: $3800

So unless the hi-tech cooling rig is $2000, this is an awful deal.

baberg

Dell Unveils New XPS Gaming Desktop

Anonononomous — Tue, 09 Jan 2007 13:21:12 MST

All that power and it only comes with Windows Media Center Edition?

I'm perplexed.

Anonononomous

Dell Unveils New XPS Gaming Desktop

Chgu — Tue, 09 Jan 2007 13:10:22 MST

Hah, good to see we're cashing in on the obsessed PC whore crowd. I'm glad I work on Powervault products and not that thing. I can only imagine the scorn the geeks buying that could give if something went wrong.

Chgu

Dell Unveils New XPS Gaming Desktop

EnigmaNemesis — Tue, 09 Jan 2007 13:09:26 MST

Someone needs to tell Dell, VooDooPC, Sony, PNY, and Apple that the economy isn't doing "that" good. I mean this is uber expensive price announcement day!.

EnigmaNemesis

Dell Unveils New XPS Gaming Desktop

ortholomeux — Tue, 09 Jan 2007 13:09:20 MST

why on earth would anyone pay $5,500 for a gaming computer that will be out of date 6 months down the road?

preposterous!

ortholomeux