Dell XPS 630 Review – PC World
PC World have published a review of the Dell XPS 630 gaming desktop. ‘Our $3229 XPS 630 system (the price drops to $2889 without the bundled 22-inch Dell SP2208WFP monitor, and lesser configurations start at $1199; pricing is as of June 6, 2008) packed 3GB of RAM and Intel's 3-GHz Core 2 Extreme QX6850 processor--an older quad-core chip that continues to deliver strong performance. Two speedy 160GB, 10,000-rpm Western Digital Raptor hard drives configured in a RAID 0 array provide a modest 320GB storage. The system also carried dual 512MB nVidia GeForce 8800 GT graphics boards bridged as one via SLI (nVidia's Scalable Link Interface).
Dell lets you choose either Windows XP or Windows Vista as the operating system for your XPS 630. Our unit, equipped with Vista Premium, earned a score of 123 on PC World's WorldBench 6 test suite--on a par with results we've recorded for most competing desktops that use the same QX6850 CPU. To put that into perspective, consider that our current top-performing desktops (for example, the Penryn QX9650-equipped War Machine M1 Elite) posted WorldBench scores edging into the low 130s. Though Dell doesn't recommend or ship the 630 overclocked, you can bump up the CPU and memory speeds yourself if you know what you're doing.’
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