Dell XPS 710 Review
Posted by: Newsfactory on: 12/08/2006 06:20 PM [ Print | 1 comment(s) ] · 2036 views
Its got quad-processing cores, quad SLI, over a terabyte worth of hard drive space, and does so while running extremely quiet. In case you didn't know, the system we're discussing is Dell's XPS 710. Powered by the nForce 590 SLI chipset, this is Dell's flagship gaming system and it even supports overclocking. Read our thoughts on this system in today's review!
At the heart of the system is NVIDIA?s nForce 590 SLI chipset. The nForce 590 SLI never really made much of an appearance in the DIY market, with only ASUS picking the chipset up and even then only making a very limited number of motherboards, but Dell has been using the chipset for quite some time now on their XPS line, including the original XPS 700.
The motherboard Dell uses for the XPS 710 is largely the same as the mobo Dell used on the XPS 700, only its been designed to work with quad-core CPUs from the start (the XPS 700 can be made to work with quad-core although it?s officially unsupported because the motherboard lacks the required number of reference lines from the CPU to front-side bus for voltages and therefore it?s not backed up by the Dell warranty). The motherboard has been developed completely in-house by Dell and relies on the BTX form factor
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At the heart of the system is NVIDIA?s nForce 590 SLI chipset. The nForce 590 SLI never really made much of an appearance in the DIY market, with only ASUS picking the chipset up and even then only making a very limited number of motherboards, but Dell has been using the chipset for quite some time now on their XPS line, including the original XPS 700.
The motherboard Dell uses for the XPS 710 is largely the same as the mobo Dell used on the XPS 700, only its been designed to work with quad-core CPUs from the start (the XPS 700 can be made to work with quad-core although it?s officially unsupported because the motherboard lacks the required number of reference lines from the CPU to front-side bus for voltages and therefore it?s not backed up by the Dell warranty). The motherboard has been developed completely in-house by Dell and relies on the BTX form factor
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#65708 Posted on: 12/08/2006 07:42 PM
XPS machines rock the ferarri's under the desktops not as good as a mclaren F1 or a veyron but still supercar performance right out of the box |
