Dell Debuts Reasonably Priced XPS 625 Gaming PC
Dell Debuts Reasonably Priced XPS 625 Gaming PC
Posted 01/09/2009 at 8:24am
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With competition from Gateway and HP, affordable gaming boxes are becoming all the rage and Dell has every intention of participating. The OEM has just launched the XPS 625, a sub-$1000 desktop with a modest spec sheet.
Dell, a longtime lover of Intel, turns to AMD this time around. The affair breathes hot and heavy with AMD's Dragon platform, including configuration options of the fresh out of the oven Phenom II X4 940 Black Edition processor (3.0GHz), dual ATI Radeon HD 4850 graphics cards, up to 8GB of memory, a10K RMP hard drive (interestingly this can only be added as an "additional hard drive"), and Windows Vista 64-bit. Dell says the entire system is overclockable through AMD's performance tuning software, and as just configured, it's all going to cost a shade over $2000.
To keep things under a grand, the XPS 625's base configuration consists of an AMD Athlon X2 5600+ Black Edition processor (2.9GHz), 2GB of DDR2-800 RAM, 500GB hard drive, ATI Radeon 4670 videocard, DVD burner, and Windows Vista Home Premium 64-bit.
The XPS 625 is available now.
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bcweir
January 09, 2009 at 9:48am
Best of all, no bloatware or spyware installed. None of that worthless "trialware" stuff either.
I'm just shocked they passed on Intel considering Dell's long term love affair with them, on top of Intel's current price/performance superiority at this time.
Velcrow
January 09, 2009 at 11:06am
When you mention pricing, I'm sure what we general consumers get for retail or OEM is far more than what Dell pays. I also noticed that the video cards are ATI based, wich of course is owned by AMD. So AMD may have made a great package deal with Dell for CPU/GPU combos. It's all about negotiations.
Of course, I build my own too, but I imagine most consumers can't. And if parents are buying a gaming rig for their kid, it's even more likely they don't know how.
On another topic, I find it reassuring that more vendors continue to build gaming specific machines, since we're always hearing those nasty rumors about the 'death' of PC gaming. Yeah... right.
farlo
January 09, 2009 at 9:34am
for that price you could build something so much more capable of gaming, i feel sorry for those who dont build their own systems.
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