This is the first non-Dell I’ve had as my main office machine in years. And by years, I mean as far back as I can remember. But the new Dell XPS 730X doesn’t come with more than 6GB of RAM and I wanted more than that so I went to iBuyPower to get it. I’m still a huge fan of Dell and Alienware but I wanted those 12GB.
We’ve installed Windows 7 on it and the machine is just a total monster. It nearly 3 times faster than the monster Alienware box I got last Summer for home.
The specs:
I am still in the process of updating the other base components. Gotta check in with AMD for the latest ATI card to put in here. I got a 4800 in it right now.
I’m waiting until Windows 7 to get an SSD drive. With 12GB of memory and the fact I never reboot (or very rarely) means that everything I might possibly do on the machine will get cached. I’ve learned that from my ThinkPad T400. 64-bit with lots of RAM trumps SSDs in terms of day to day performance.
Love the case too.
The case is pretty tacky. But it is quite functional. I wish the Dell XPS line would adopt having more of the goodies accessible like this. My only gripe is that there’s no SD card reader slot up here.
The multi-card reader is where the floppy drive used to be in these things years ago. The CD/DVD/Blu Ray burner/reader is up where it would normally be.
In terms of benchmarks, it scored a 2014 which is almost 3 times faster than the Alienware box from this past Summer which had one of those Intel extreme whatevers in it (it was the fastest thing I could buy at the time).
It's very quiet.
my case is quite. However one of the fans is startig to become noisy anyway. I am inspired by your post to use my tax return (may it come quickly after Feb) to upgrade my PC.
eyes, it has eyes, did you notice the eyes on that thing? Sweet Brad, I'm jealous.
You're all a bunch of showoff's
They're headlights so he can speed the information superhighway at night without crashing into stray packets.
How about fire that syncs with said dragster noises?
Cool, any plans for a Win The Frog 2008 contest????
Heya bk!!
Frogboy at work.
A simpletech USB_160GBs tiny blueberry snapin, does that qualify as present wave?
Cuz i swear when i bought it last summer, the external device seemed to be an indirect SSD (somehow) with plenty of floppy spaces to spare!
What good is some optimal HD speed if you can't find a backed up OS or archived C:Image just by plupping *it* in?
Decibels?
+/- 10... beats LedZep on a 125W, anytime.
I was happily surprised by how quiet the Acer behaved.
I can even hear the water dripping in the sink all the way to the bathroom (12 feet away, door opened) -- now.
As with the P4, bios beeps covered up the Intro songs of XP. Call me a configuration freak.
Big fans gathering dust can kill a ride, no matter how silenced.
That's cool Tg!
hehe Thanks bk
Nice PC... I am still saving up for my new pc. In now I would say end of feb or sometime march... Ahh I can't wait.
What size monitor do you have and what resolution brad????
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