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Dell's H2C gaming monster goes on sale in UK
Dell has started selling its super high-end H2C gaming machine in the UK.
It is factory overclocked to 3.2GHz without any core voltage increases.
Experienced enthusiasts might want to stay clear of the product since Dell has locked the vcore bios settings so you can't increase core voltage for extra overclocking.
Voltage on the memory dims can be increased though and products on show at Dell's innovation event in Marbella were overclocked to 3.6GHz by pushing up the FSB.
I had some serious hands on with the machine in Marbella and my first impressions are that it is an austounding piece of kit. The minimum specs are:
- Core 2 Extreme QX6700 factory overclocked to 3.2 GHz
- Dual 768MB GeForce 8800 GTX graphics cards
- 2 GB 667MHz DDR2 Ram
- 320GB 10,000 RPM SATA Raid 0 (2x160GB) hard disks
- Sound Blaster X-Fi Xtreme Music Soundcard
- 128MB Ageia PhysX physics accelerator
- Prices start at £3,400 (not including peripherals like a monitor...)
Unlike other liquid-cooled systems, the XPS 710H2C is advertised as maintenance-free for seven years thanks to special black rubber tubes so liquid doesn't permeate out.
Suggestions from journalists that including a 1000 Watt power supply was irresponsible were sidestepped although an enthusiastic Dell spokesperson eventually joked that when "the rest of the houses start to dim, we congratulate them."
Finally Dell bragged it was the best gaming PC in the world and one rep told PCW it was even better than anything Alienware has to offer. Alienware was bought by Dell last year.
One of the systems was running Crysis, which is a DirectX 10 game filled with astonishing eye-candy. I can report the current beta is very jumpy, even on the above system, with frame rates bobbling around 30fps max.
In other news Dell's high-end gaming notebook, the XPS M1710, is now shipping with Intel's latest Core 2 Duo T7600G. This processor was announced at CES this month and Dell is currently the only supplier to have it.
It is basically a Core 2 Duo T7600 that has an unlocked clock multiplier and Dell's warranty covers you overclocking it.
Posted by Emil Larsen on January 26, 2007 | Permalink
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