Dude, You're Buying a Renegade!

[News]

It really hasn't been that long that Dell has been catering to PC gamers with their XPS series. Normally Dell isn't the first choice of gamers, but perhaps their newest creation with pursuade you a little.

Dell was on hand at this year's CES to demonstrate their latest addition to the XPS series: the Dell XPS 600 Renegade. Before you read the specs below you might want to put something under your chin incase you drool all over the place:

65nm dual-core Pentium Extreme Edition 3.46 GHZ (955) overclocked to 4.26GHz
2GB DDR2 clocked at 667MHz
Two Western Digital Raptor 150GB 10,000RPM hard drives in RAID
NFORCE 4 X16 chipset/motherboard
Quad SLI GeForce 7800 GTX w/1GB on each board

Yes, you read that last part right. That's two dual-GPU GeForce 7800 GTX SLI cards with 1GB each which means there's a total of four GPUs and 2GBs video memory. Can you say "overkill"?! Theoretically this means that you can play games with a resolution of 2560x1200 and even 32x anti-aliasing.

This new system also comes with a Logitech keyboard, Klipsch speaker system, Plextor burner, X-Fi soundcard, and a custom case that's airbrushed with flames. The Dell XPS 600 Renegade will only be available for a limited time. Dell hasn't yet mentioned the price or performance benchmarks, but you don't need to be a rocket scientist to realize that you may need to take on a second job to fund this beast.

[Natoksane]

I could almost say I want one.

Too bad it will cost at least $5,000.

[OWNAGE TIME]

Can we all say...OVER FRIKIN KILL!! My computer has one 7800GT overclocked to a GTX and runs BF2 with over a 100FPS what the hell do you need QUAD GTX's! So you can invite your friends over and show them your 1000 FPS even thought your screen only displays 60 and your eyes can only tell around 35 fps. Really though I'm just jealous.

Also is it 4 video cards or 2 cards. If its 4 what mobo supports 4 PCI-E slots?

~Ownage

[Natoksane]

Can we all say...OVER FRIKIN KILL!! My computer has one 7800GT overclocked to a GTX and runs BF2 with over a 100FPS what the hell do you need QUAD GTX's! So you can invite your friends over and show them your 1000 FPS even thought your screen only displays 60 and your eyes can only tell around 35 fps. Really though I'm just jealous.

Also is it 4 video cards or 2 cards. If its 4 what mobo supports 4 PCI-E slots?

~Ownage

It is two cards with two cores and 1 gig of memory. So that means two 512mb 7800GTX's to a card.

Actually, no. It is 4 cards.

[Fito]

If I had the money, I would definitely buy one...why the hell not? Of course it is overkill, but does that matter? It's all about bragging rights.

[Natoksane]

If I had the money, I would definitely buy one...why the hell not? Of course it is overkill, but does that matter? It's all about bragging rights.

People everywhere will be saying the same thing.

"If I had the money, I would buy a renegade"

Too bad no one will.

[Fito]

I don't really think that Dell really cares. They are going to get a lot of publicity from this and that is what CES is really about. Showing off cool **** that might not even hit the market.

[FoxFire]

Too bad it will cost at least $5,000.
My dad bought an XPS when they first came out for about $4,000 and it had a 3.2GHz, Radeon 9800, 1 Gb of RAM, 7.1 suround sound speakers, Logitech mouse and keyboard, a big CTR monitor.... thats about it
(I have rich parents :/)
-FoxFire

[noobman]

All I can say is that.... you're paying for more than you're getting. With the same money, you could probably build a better system. HOW they have 4 7800's in there (they said 4 7800 GPU's, so is it 2 7800 GPU's per board on a special board, or 4 boards)?

[FoxFire]

All I can say is that.... you're paying for more than you're getting. With the same money, you could probably build a better system.
Building a computer cuts the price down by alot.
BTW: I saw someone's wishlist on newegg.com and they were building a computer with a total cost of over $12,000! I'll see if I can find it...
-FoxFire

[Chris Reinhart]

It should be 2 GPUs with 1GB of RAM on 1 board and there are two boards total. That concept isn't new as 3DFX tried it years ago, but failed, and just a few months back ASUS announced a dual-GPU 7800 GTX.

[Celeron Gamer]

All I can say is that.... you're paying for more than you're getting. With the same money, you could probably build a better system. HOW they have 4 7800's in there (they said 4 7800 GPU's, so is it 2 7800 GPU's per board on a special board, or 4 boards)?


They already have sent some dual GPU 7800GTs to reviewers, and tested it. (needs an AC power brick tho)

Anyways, if they don't cram crap into their PC again, this would make a powerful gaming machine.


btw, Presler can hit 4.9GHz on air, so there should still be some headroom for the CPU

[Fito]

I'm sitting on an XPS right now and I definitely agree with you guys that building a computer is cheaper but let this horrible and sad story show the other side of the story. I split the cost of my XPS ($2800ish) with my parents like 3 years ago. At the time it was an awesome gaming rig...3.0, 9800 pro, gig of ram etc. Well, a couple months ago something fried on it, which does happen sometimes with computers. Well, I had the warranty and eventually Dell sent me a new PC for free. Now I'm sitting on a brand new XPS...3.2, 6800 ultra PCI express, gig of ram, 500 gbs of serial hd's etc. This way was actually more cost efficient.

[FoxFire]

O.o..... now I wish my XPS fried, but we propbably don't have a coverage plan extending this long.... *sigh*
-FoxFire

[OWNAGE TIME]

I swear they are overpricing this. The moral is build your own and save money and upgrade only when needed.

~Ownage

[Chris Reinhart]

It's not too overpriced when you compare it to Falcon Northwest. Falcon always does custom paint jobs on their cases which really ups the price. A lot of the times they sell for around $7,000+.

[noobman]

It's 4 cards in the system isn't it? I saw a pic of a mobo with two pairs of SLi, but it looked photoshopped.

Regardless, I still think it's 4 7800GT 512mb cards.

[Chris Reinhart]

No, it's NOT 4 cards. It's two cards with two GPUs on each card.

[noobman]

Good to know =D

[Andrull]

Can we all say...OVER FRIKIN KILL!! My computer has one 7800GT overclocked to a GTX and runs BF2 with over a 100FPS what the hell do you need QUAD GTX's! So you can invite your friends over and show them your 1000 FPS even thought your screen only displays 60 and your eyes can only tell around 35 fps. Really though I'm just jealous.

Also is it 4 video cards or 2 cards. If its 4 what mobo supports 4 PCI-E slots?

~Ownage
If you have 100fps, you havent maxed the graphics up. I have a 2x6800U rig with 4200+ cpu, and iam doing bad fps. Around 20-30 fps. 1280*1024, 16xAA SLI, 16x anostropich and the rest on max.
A little overkill with 16xAA and 16Xaf you might say, yes and i agree. So i'am playing 4xAA 8XAF (and below is "awfull"). I cant have more than 1280*1024 on my lcd panel, but i thik of theese with big crt monitors and 2048*xxxx!

You can never get enough gpu power!

BTW: BF2 doesnt demand that much out of the gpu. Take Fear and cod2, cod2 is barrely playable, even though its been optimised in SLI! No single card in the world can play Cod2 with evrything on maximum graphic. (1280,4xaa,anostropich and so on..).
You have to have at least 2*7800GT (overclokked) or 7800GTX256. If you will be playing ity non laggy you have to have 2*7800GTX512 in SLI!

If you are counting 3dmark points, you need at least 11K. (05)
Cod2 is extremly demanding!

[EclipseSix]

Kinda funny when people will spend mass amounts of money for something they can't even get the full use out of, besides bragging rights of all the mundane things...

World's really goin down the pooper.

[OWNAGE TIME]

If you have 100fps, you havent maxed the graphics up. I have a 2x6800U rig with 4200+ cpu, and iam doing bad fps. Around 20-30 fps. 1280*1024, 16xAA SLI, 16x anostropich and the rest on max.
A little overkill with 16xAA and 16Xaf you might say, yes and i agree. So i'am playing 4xAA 8XAF (and below is "awfull"). I cant have more than 1280*1024 on my lcd panel, but i thik of theese with big crt monitors and 2048*xxxx!

You can never get enough gpu power!

BTW: BF2 doesnt demand that much out of the gpu. Take Fear and cod2, cod2 is barrely playable, even though its been optimised in SLI! No single card in the world can play Cod2 with evrything on maximum graphic. (1280,4xaa,anostropich and so on..).
You have to have at least 2*7800GT (overclokked) or 7800GTX256. If you will be playing ity non laggy you have to have 2*7800GTX512 in SLI!

If you are counting 3dmark points, you need at least 11K. (05)
Cod2 is extremly demanding!

Well my GFX card can only except 4AA and 8AF but other than that I'm maxing out BF2. I have a great cooling system which allows tremendous overclocking which puts my 7800GT at or a littlbe above a slightly OC'd GTX, as for my CPU my AMD 3500+ is OC'd to 2.5ghz which may seem low but ask noobman who can tell you the story about AMD and Intel clock speeds.

Also about your rig man, you should be able to get way higher than 30 fps check for virus's, spyware and such.

~Ownage

[Sam Raven]

Kinda funny when people will spend mass amounts of money for something they can't even get the full use out of, besides bragging rights of all the mundane things...

World's really goin down the pooper.Fully agreed.

[TheSneak^]

I love people who say, oh I'm 1337 I get 200 fps, when almost 100 of those fps's aren't even seen by his eyes, ownrizzled.

[Sam Raven]

I love people who say, oh I'm 1337 I get 200 fps, when almost 100 of those fps's aren't even seen by his eyes, ownrizzled.A system able to produce that level of framerates are probably good only for 3DMark' 06 bragging rights.
Apart from that, wanting to upgrade to achieve that level serves no other purpose, except most likely than not leaving you broke and longing for another job to clear the utility bills and buy more than just chocolate milk cartons to keep you alive.

"So you got 17350? Well done, but you are still a dumbass."