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Dell XPS 600 Renegade Quad SLi

by Tarinder Sandhu on 9 January 2006, 04:18

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Quad SLi and overclocked CPUs from Dell

This system as many of you know contains 4 NVIDIA 7800GTX GPUs. We spoke to Dell and NVIDIA about this solution and it appears that whilst a 4 GPU solution is not exclusive to Dell, this GPU and Mainboard combination is - and Dell will be first to market. This system has a custom paint job, and has external power for the graphics cards.

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Dell believe it will go on sale in mid March and will have a price point between 8,000 and 10,000$ depending on configuration. Of course this isn't aiming to be a big seller, but it is for sure the most powerful gaming solution on the market. Dell believe they will sell between 50 and 100 of these systems.

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Dell also have overclocked the Intel Pentium 4 955 to 4.25GHZ (simply by changing the multiplier) and this is a very interesting move. Normally companies such as Dell and Intel simply stick to stock speeds as it is easier to provide warranty on these, so to see Dell ramping up the clock speeds is a definite change from the norm.

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Whilst we like the paintjob, and we can understand why Dell have done this, we can't wait to see the performance figures, and with the driver and 4GPUs being available seeing how long it takes the Taiwanese vendors to bring boards with 4* 16X PCI-E Physical (8 lanes electrically) and card bundles to the market.

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Posted by kasavien - Mon 09 Jan 2006 11:41
Even if i had that amount of money to waste, i wouldn't spend it on that given its a Dell and its based around an intel chip.
Posted by Mattus - Mon 09 Jan 2006 19:15
kasavien
Even if i had that amount of money to waste, i wouldn't spend it on that given its a Dell and its based around an intel chip.

Precisely. I realise Dell have sold their souls to Intel, but anyone with a modicum of PC knowledge knows that if your intended purpose is gaming, it's much better served with an Athlon 64.
Posted by kasavien - Tue 10 Jan 2006 13:43
/me daydreams…

if only dell used AMD chips… FX60 + Quad SLI

big waste of money i know but still :woowoo:
Posted by TheAnimus - Tue 10 Jan 2006 15:04
Intel do seam to have their foot in the door with SLI and nVidia, but that was the case back in the day when it first came out too, when I perswaded dad to get a Righteous Voodoo2 (orchid did amazing things with their rendition of the voodoo2, even more groundbreaking than that chip was) i had dreams of SLi. But by the time the cards had fallen to a cheap enough price for this, that card had long time been superceded by a matrox AGP card. Leaving it with me, and my AMD system. The point of this nostaliga is that my AMD system was barly stable enough (this was K6-2 eria) and it was generally excepted with my (economy) choice of chipset and CPU it was just not going to ever work in SLI.

Now when AMD are no longer the economy choice, It boggles the mind as to why nVidia have gone with delltel for this. The awnser quite simply will be intel's developer support. They are just much better. If you look on AMD and Intel's site you will see intel have lots more info, its a platform thats been extended on for some 20 odd years. That will of definately effected their choice. If SLI was thought to be unstable, then far fewer people would consider it.