Dell has just the solution for the economic woes of the United States, it comes in the form of a hardcore gaming PC with a price tag that amounts to a few months of mortgage payments. The XPS 730 HTC is big, powerful and very, very expensive.
Dell has not skimped when it comes to the hardware. The XPS 730 HTC has a lot of shiny bells and whistles including: dual ATI Radeon HD 3870 X2 graphics cards, 4GB of 1333 MHz DDR3 Corsair Dominator memory, an Intel QX9770 overclocked to 3.8 GHz, a 1TB storage drive and a Creative X-Fi sound card.
I am all for overblown PCs, I really am, but I limit myself for the simple reason that, no matter how good a machine is, it is going to be mediocre in about six to eight months and about eighteen months down the track it is probably going to suck and not be able to play any of the latest games. This is the primary reason why I have steered away from Crossfire and SLi systems up until this point and it is the reason that will keep me from traveling that road any time in the future.
If the price tag of $6500 is a little steep, then you can always stick with the slightly slower QX9650 and downgrade to 2GB of RAM. That will knock $1,000 off the price, but if you are going to pay $5,500, you might as well go the whole nine yards and get the off the shelf gaming system to end all off the shelf gaming systems. Or, you could just build the same thing yourself for like half the money. Either way, you probably aren’t going to be able to play Crysis 2. [Dell via PC Magazine]
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Tags: Computers, Gaming, obscenely-expensive
5 responses
May 2, 2008 at 8:50 am
Why anyone would buy a gaming PC rather than build one is beyond me. I could build a rig to exceed these specs for half the price if not even less.
It doesn’t take very much know how to build a fricken computer from parts.
May 6, 2008 at 10:16 am
It’s not that hard. People just make it more complicated than it is.
I could build a PC a million times better for that price. $6k for that?
Jul 23, 2008 at 12:44 pm
can you build that system with a 27 inch monitor and dual 9800 gx2 graphics for 4500 shipped turn key to my door with 3 yrs of warranty and tech support?
(don’t forget to include upgraded keyboard, mouse, and xps gaming pack with headphones and controlers and stuff)
Aug 8, 2008 at 10:46 pm
Chris, for that price you could build 2 of those systems and keep the extra one as a backup. Sure beats a 3-year Dell warranty.
Aug 9, 2008 at 6:41 pm
PatO, You mean to tell me you can build a a better deal than I got, for less $?
xps730h2c, qx9770 processor, dual 9800gx2 cards, 4 gigs 1333 ddr3 memory, vista OS, 1000w power supply,500g HD, 27in ultrasharp monitor, dual optical drives, 19-1 media card reader, soundblaster extreemgamer sound card,…. toss in a Logictec G15 keyboard, Logitech g9 mouse, razor terrantula keyboard, razor deathadder mouse, (i bought 2 keyboards and mice), then toss in a NEW XBOX ELITE bundle and overnight it all to me..then stand behind it as well for under $4500.00?? I dont think so..
The monitors cost a grand.. the xbox cost 450.. thats roughly 1500.. so then you got $1450 for the Q9770 processor, and $450 each for the video cards..
I dont think it’s gonna happen..
I bought this system listed above, and out the box and got 21000 in 3dmark06 with a very minor tweak..
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