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Due out in a few weeks, Dell's XPS 600 will have two PCI-Express x16 slots, each designed for Nvidia's latest GeForce 7800 GTX graphics card. The two cards link together to think as one.
As a result, Dell said its XPS 600 users can play 3D games and DVDs at very high-resolution settings--the DVDs, for example, will be able to play at 480-pixel resolution.
Nvidia calls the process of linking two cards together its "scalable link interface," or SLI. The combination doubles the amount of video bandwidth a computer can handle over current dual x8 PCI-Express computer designs.
Nvidia's archrival ATI has a similar technology it calls Crossfire. The company has delayed its debut until early September, around the same time the Dell box is set to come out.
Starting at $3,099 with a Pentium 4 single core processor, Dell's XPS 600 will automatically ship with Windows XP Home and come with a 160GB hard drive, dual 16X DVD-ROM and 48X CD-RW drives and 512MB of advanced computer memory.
Dell is also offering a combination of the two Nvidia cards with an Intel Extreme Edition 8xx series dual-core processor (two computer brains on one piece of silicon).
Dell and Nvidia, which have collaborated many times in the past, are expected to show off the new PC at id Software's QuakeCon 2005 computer game event next Monday.
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DELL'S SUCK ANYWAYS!
Sure maybe the video cards are worth maybe $800 of that, if we're generous, but what self respecting gamer is going to go for those specs?
For the same money I could build a dual core Athlon 64 X2 3800+, 2 GB Ram, 200 GB HD, 2 16x8x6x DVD Burners, top of the range motherboard, cooling, case and power supply, with a 19" LCD Screen and an ATI Radeon X800 XT video card and have $400 to spare, which ofcourse would buy me a second ATI Radeon X800 XT video card when crossfire becomes available.
Obviously there's a month's wait for the ATI version to arrive, but even if I went nVidia now, the cost would be about the same.
The only thing missing is the OS, which at $150 for an OEM copy of XP Pro puts my configuration $100 over the one listed by Dell.
I guarantee you that Dell's price doesn't include any sort of warrantee that would better the one that would come with all of the parts listed, unless you opt to pay more money (I've been seduced by Dell before and know how their advertised pricing works), and I guarantee that this PC comes with either no monitor or a crap one.
Do the math and if you don't know how to build your own, go Alienware, at least they use top quality components, and they'll beat the $3000 price with a better config too.
But can anybody enlighten me: Why watching DVDs at 480 pixels resolution? I don't need a 3k$ machine for doing that.
And effectively, putting a high end gaming machine together with those specs is a shame. Getting max graphics and only a basic configuration for the rest will make no gamer happy.
- DVDs, for example, will be able to play at 480-pixel resolution
- by 202578300049013666264380294439 August 9, 2005 6:21 AM PDT
- Wow! $3000 and dual SLI to play DVD's. You can do that with a $300 computer. Cmon, you must be able to give a better example then that.
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