Dell Announces the $10k XPS 600 Renegade monster

[lkyng]

When I think of a gaming PC, I think of maybe an Athlon FX-60 processor with two top of the line graphics cards running in SLI or CrossFire mode. Never would I imagine, however, that I would plunk down $10,000 -- not far from the base price of a 2007 Toyota Yaris.

DailyTech (http://www.dailytech.com/article.aspx?newsid=1375)

[privatedonut21]

That's ridiculous, yet again Dell is totally overshooting their intended market with over inflated pricing!

[lkyng]

I agree with you. The question is; who will pay for that :?: :?: :?:

[cheaptrick 69]

Seriously, who in the hell would pay that much for a Dell. They would have to be retarded.

[fastedie]

All you need to sell is 20 a yr or less! And they probably will. I would never pay that much maybe 1500 tops!

[zip]

I wouldn`t pay for that neither, such a PC costs maybe a quarter of that price........

[Trunks]

This limited edition, custom-painted monster comes equipped with an Intel Pentium 965 Extreme Edition processor overclocked to 4.26GHz. In addtion, it features two 10,000RPM 160GB Raptor hard drives in a RAID-0 configuration plus an additional 7,200RPM 400GB hard drive. Also included is a Sound Blaster X-Fi Fatal1ty sound card with front-side controller and 2GB DDR2 667 memory. To top things off, the XPS 600 comes paired with four GeForce 7900 graphics cards running in Quad-SLI.

[privatedonut21]

This limited edition, custom-painted monster comes equipped with an Intel Pentium 965 Extreme Edition processor overclocked to 4.26GHz. In addtion, it features two 10,000RPM 160GB Raptor hard drives in a RAID-0 configuration plus an additional 7,200RPM 400GB hard drive. Also included is a Sound Blaster X-Fi Fatal1ty sound card with front-side controller and 2GB DDR2 667 memory. To top things off, the XPS 600 comes paired with four GeForce 7900 graphics cards running in Quad-SLI.

That's all well and good, but still that rig wouldn't be worth more than $4000 to me tops. The Quad-SLI are damn near worthless anyway because of other sytem bottlenecks! Also, the thing doesn't even have a dual-core, if Dell would pull its head out of its ass and start using AMD they could throw an FX-60 in the thing and "maybe" make it worth considering after a $4000 price cut!

[silenze]

$10k? LOL....

I'll take 2 of my dual-core opteron / 7800GTX SLI / 24" widescreen LCD systems over ONE of those WITH change left over, kthx.

SLI and Quad SLI are bottlenecked by the cpu only up to a certain resolution... SLI and Quad SLI truely are worth it if you have the display to take advantage of it.

[privatedonut21]

$10k? LOL....

I'll take 2 of my dual-core opteron / 7800GTX SLI / 24" widescreen LCD systems over ONE of those WITH change left over, kthx.

SLI and Quad SLI are bottlenecked by the cpu only up to a certain resolution... SLI and Quad SLI truely are worth it if you have the display to take advantage of it.

Even if the bottlenecking weren't an issue...which I'm not convinced they won't be...the rig is still not even close to worth the price tag! It's not even dual core for cryin' out loud!

[Zenphic]

There might be the fact that it's a limited edition that the price might hike high. The paint job too might contribute. Maybe a few ks ? :twisted:

[privatedonut21]

There might be the fact that it's a limited edition that the price might hike high. The paint job too might contribute. Maybe a few ks ? :twisted:

Haha, well for me the paint job is a downside to the rig. It's kinda ugly and besides, what is the point of having someone else mod your rig?

[kcaverly]

I don't understand Dell. They charge way too much but people buy them. My friend is looking for a desktop decent gaming rig, he looks at Dell's. I just built a rig for a friend and it cost him sub-700$(Canadian) and it can play FEAR at decent settings. This other friend is going to buy a dell that costs 2500$ i think. I looked at the parts and I could build it for him for 1400$, even less if I put in an x2 3800 instead of the intel crap at that price point.
I told him, I can build you a better comp for just over half the price, I even priced out all the parts and it was waaaaaaaaaaaay cheaper, more than 1K savings, but noo, he likes dell.

[Zenphic]

Haha, well for me the paint job is a downside to the rig. It's kinda ugly and besides, what is the point of having someone else mod your rig?
:P for non-modding rich people
still this Dell thing is gonna become a cool collectible in the future

[silenze]

Even if the bottlenecking weren't an issue...which I'm not convinced they won't be...the rig is still not even close to worth the price tag! It's not even dual core for cryin' out loud!

Uh I never said it was..



http://www.techenclave.com/forums/launch-quad-sli-7900-gx2-68419.html


* - FX60 at stock speed of 2.6GHz
* - ASUS A32N SLI Deluxe
* - Corsair 2GB DDR Memory
* - Quad SLI 7900 @ 500/1200 MHz per card

FEAR was the game picked to demonstrate the Extreme HD experience offered by Quad SLI, displayed by the 30" Dell LCD panels. I took the chance to try out the FEAR benchmark at 2560x1600 resolution with the maximum quality settings and 8xAA.

http://img293.imageshack.us/img293/9879/135vf.jpg

[kcaverly]

WOW, that thing demolished FEAR

[privatedonut21]

Even if the bottlenecking weren't an issue...which I'm not convinced they won't be...the rig is still not even close to worth the price tag! It's not even dual core for cryin' out loud!

Uh I never said it was..



http://www.techenclave.com/forums/launch-quad-sli-7900-gx2-68419.html


* - FX60 at stock speed of 2.6GHz
* - ASUS A32N SLI Deluxe
* - Corsair 2GB DDR Memory
* - Quad SLI 7900 @ 500/1200 MHz per card

FEAR was the game picked to demonstrate the Extreme HD experience offered by Quad SLI, displayed by the 30" Dell LCD panels. I took the chance to try out the FEAR benchmark at 2560x1600 resolution with the maximum quality settings and 8xAA.



Ok, sorry. I must have misunderstood your last post. [smilie=icon_silent.gif] [smilie=new_tomato.gif]

It's just that Dell making crappy stuff like this gets me riled up! :wink: