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Dell's new XPS 625 gaming desktops offers all-AMD CPU and graphics cards.

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by CDROM2GO January 8, 2009 8:56 AM PST
The specs on this machine sound good, but the design leaves a lot to be desired. It looks like the Dodge Caliber of computers! Yikes!
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by GardenLobster January 8, 2009 10:10 AM PST
You can always change cases. Especially if you're going to overclock it - you need a closed, sealed environment for cooking oil mods. I really like the option of an unlocked processor. With a little more work you can get a lot more bang for your buck. Just throw the components in a new case - sealed plexiglass.
by Kalam1ty January 8, 2009 9:04 AM PST
I'm confused. It's supposedly an AMD machine, but it has an Intel sticker on it?
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by rhbrown January 8, 2009 9:41 AM PST
Ha. I'll confess to having used old art in posts for new systems with identical cases, and for a second I was afraid that's what had happened here. But just checked the email Dell sent me and, as the credit says, this one did indeed come direct from Round Rock. Oops.
by rhbrown January 8, 2009 12:11 PM PST
Dell sent us a new image, which I added for the sake of preventing confusion, but for those who didn't see the original, it was in fact a Dell-supplied picture of the XPS 600-series chassis with an Intel badge on it. Not exactly what you'd expect to find on an all-AMD desktop.
by spectator1 January 8, 2009 10:23 AM PST
This is really the Cadillac of high end gaming systems. I had the opportunity to break it down while at the Dell campus and try something on it in a training class it?s impressive

and surprisingly quite. I have always like Dell products since I was on the Dell development team years agao, and I have some Dell servers from the Power Edge line that does not miss a beat.

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by skillingssucks January 8, 2009 11:16 AM PST
"This is really the Cadillac of high end gaming systems"
You've got to be kidding? Right?
by jhstoneca January 8, 2009 5:07 PM PST
I think that by "Cadillac" he means poorly built, prone to failure and depreciates rapidly. Core i7 systems cruch the new Dragon chips in real world benchmarking and you can get a Dell i7 system with an ATI 4850 for $999 at Microcenter. Why spend the same money on an inferior build?
by Rmaster348 January 8, 2009 6:36 PM PST
I disagree with poorly built and prone to faliure.
Anyway, Dell's biggest failure is when they make gaming machine's they always fall short. Like No monitor and No mouse HUH! Who games without a mouse? To have this machine properly set up as a decent gaming rig it will cost you $3428. Midrange yeah right!
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