Dell busts out XPS 710 H2C gaming desktop, holds no punches

Dell's new XPS 710 H₂C Edition "Black Ice" gaming PC might look sexy on the outside, with that new "midnight-black" casing, but there's a whole lot more going on the inside to get excited about. At $5,499, the box is no steal, but it's plenty of frills, including Dell's new H2C cooling system we heard about earlier, which works a bit like a car radiator, with a fluid chiller with ceramic-based thermoelectric cooling to keep it all frosty. Dell also squeezed in an Intel Core Extreme QX6700 quad-core processor, which is factory overclocked to 3.2GHz, dual NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GTX graphics cards, 4GB of 667MHz DDR2 memory, a pair of 160GB 10,000rpm HDDs with room for two more, dual optical drive (Blu-ray was mentioned in the keynote, but it doesn't sound like it made it into the base configuration), plus Dell is tossing in a 2007WFP 20-inch display and Dell AS501 flat-panel speakers. Since this is a whole gaming package -- apparently consumers go for that whole bundle thing -- Dell is including a Razer Tarantula keyboard and Razer Copperhead mouse. No mention of Vista, though: it's XP Media Center 2005 all the way here. Should be shipping now.

[E7H3R @ Feb 5th 2007 12:09PM]

Being I work for Dell I am a little biased, however if you look at performance tests this machine performs on par with every other machine speced the same way for $500-$1,500 less so pricing is definately not ridiculous. 667 memory doesn't hurt performance one bit and neither does the 590 mobo. Why the hell would you want 8 gigs of ram...compensating for lacking something else? You don't sell them at Best Buy because Dell isn't interested in whoring themselves out like HP and Gateway and also because of Dell's business model which is being the direct source to the customer without a middle man. Lastly, you don't play on two plasma tv's and even if you did, why? What terrible resolution you would have to be playing at...GG. Just thought I would combat the common misconceptions about Dell tyvm. The E7H3R aka The Truth

[Spuck @ Jan 9th 2007 2:50PM]

Why can't the front of this case be vertically flat, personally I can't stand they way it leans forward.

[alex @ Jan 9th 2007 3:08PM]

I could live with it for those specs.

[MearWolf @ Jan 9th 2007 3:44PM]

AWSOME, dell and other manufacturers have to do something to make their product stand out visual, dell just did it not very well

[Frankenstein Black @ Jan 9th 2007 3:54PM]

MAN! It’s getting so a water-bender can’t even practice his trade ;^(... Well I am stalking a new rig for 2007 and it has all of the same specs as this (no monitor, speakers or mouse/keyboard needed), except that I’m opting for the AMD Quad FX 4x4 (despite the minimum performance hits comparisons) for “future proofing” purposes. The Quad FX board gives some future protection in that you will be able to use the quad-core AMDs when they are ready effectively giving you 8 cores! Oh, and of course PhysX is in the mix.

Yes I know, GEEK! NERD! Those terms however, are no longer negative since we are nice, look good, smell good, are smart, have money, and in some cases (a La Crosse championship and) a BIG (9x6), um, package;^)... Oh yea, and a Porsche too!

PS So kids stay in school and study hard!!!


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[Karen @ Jan 10th 2007 12:28AM]

Wow, color me impressed....I really like your jpg. Not a geek at all!

[Steven @ Jan 9th 2007 4:10PM]

"might look sexy on the outside"

WTF have you been smoking? That thing is FUGLY!

[jdclarke @ Jan 9th 2007 4:32PM]

A $5,000+ gaming machine with 667mhz memory?

[Zakk @ Jan 10th 2007 11:16PM]

Hmm... didn't do much bending this past year? MEH, the Dell coin is all the same, you are better off building your own and saving your money to do so. Besides you can usually get more bang for your buck going the BYO route anywho. I have a Dell laptop right now, it suffices for my random WOW needs and for my audiophile necessities, so I'm never impressed unless they were to start selling them for $800, I'd get one then, lol.

Besides I work at Best Buy and we don't carry Dell, wonder why??

[Apres Ski @ Jan 11th 2007 2:20PM]

I think the monitor could be bigger, but other than that, I'd take it. Why does Dell still have 4 gigs of RAM when Apple has 8?

[jomni1 @ Jan 12th 2007 4:42AM]

Package the power of two PC's in one box and sell it for the price of 3 PC's (?)

[$tack$ @ Feb 13th 2007 9:56PM]

ill state the obvious. Take the 5 grand and build it yourself. Actually can build a killer pc where the fsb and memory are more efficient.also...who the hell trusts a dell motherboard? the portable radiator look isnt appealing at all. They really need to get a new kind of model for the xps genre, and stop making"their version of enthusiast equipment" look like a server.im gonna hijack this and throw in the word Iphone.

[bogey8u @ Feb 23rd 2007 1:47PM]

Junk. This computer is for the unwashed masses thinking they will be the baddest gamers with this joke of a rig. The speakers are garbage, the mouse is garbage along with the keyboard. I use 2, yes, 2 61 inch plasmas for my monitors and my computer will eat this computer alive.

[Paul Fehr @ Apr 30th 2007 5:06PM]

Yes, because 61" display's, speakers, mouse, and keyboard are the most important things Dell has to offer.



Personally, spend that 5000$ on building your own computer, or build a similar computer for 1000$'s less.

[The Answer is 42 @ Sep 4th 2007 6:17PM]

Ugh Garbage hell i have used emachines tha looked better.
But buy a mac pro and slap xp or vista on it via bootcamp
it looks better it performs better and you can have
4 oses max os x xp vista and linux and its shiny
\I use a 17 imac 1.83 core duo with a gig of ram it is enough and i cant hear it

[Allan @ Nov 14th 2007 4:50PM]

I would like to have some advice on a computer i want to get build by christmass time can anyone tell me if this computer i listed would compare to the dell xps 710 at all or can you give me an idea of what can...because i'm all new at this here it goes=PROCESSOR Intel® Core™2 Extreme QX6700 (8MB,3.46GHz Factory overclocked), English
OPERATING SYSTEM Genuine Windows XP home Edition
MEMORY 8GB Corsair Dominator DDR2 SDRAM 800MHz OC'd to 1066MHz-2 DIMMs
HARD DRIVE 1tb WD Raptor 10000RPM,SATA 3.0Gb/s, 16MB Cache
SOUND CARD Sound Blaster® X-Fi™ XtremeMusic (D) Sound Card
GRAPHICS CARD Dual 768MB Nvidia GeForce 8800 GTX
OPTICAL DRIVE Dual Drives: 48x Combo + 16x DVD+/-RW w/ dbl layer write capable
MONITOR 24 inch UltraSharp™ 2407WFP Widescreen Digital Flat Panel
Essentials
PRODUCTIVITY SOFTWARE Microsoft Works 8.

(COOLER ASUS SILENT SQUARE PRO WITH COOLER ASUS Drive Bay)

SECURITY SOFTWARE AVG SecurityCenter with anti-virus, anti-spyware, firewall,