Dell teases like a girl with XPS 630 gaming desktop

Check that evil scowl will you. You're looking into the menacing red grill of Dell's newest gaming desktop the XPS 630. Dell's site modestly teases, "Here comes a new challenger." Challenger eh, not leader? Come on Dell, you're not going to generate any gaming hype with such tepidity. Drop in some NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GX2 graphics and say it loud, boy. Just not too loud, you don't want to step on the toes of your Alienware subsidiary.

Update: Mystery solved. Looks like Dell dropped the "i" from the XPS 630i which we had the chance to get up close to at CES. It's just an mid-level gaming rig. Nothing to see here folks, move along now.

[Thanks, Thomas C.]

[Ray @ Feb 5th 2008 3:21AM]

Isn't "Here comes a new challenger" a gaming reference? From Street Fighter 2?

[Hashbrown_Hunter @ Feb 5th 2008 3:38AM]

DARTH VADER CONFIRMED FOR STREET FIGHTER 4.

[LordFarkward @ Feb 5th 2008 3:46AM]

"DARTH VADER CONFIRMED FOR STREET FIGHTER 4."

more like megatron. luke's dad didn't have red led as his eyes :p

[Fruition @ Feb 5th 2008 3:47AM]

You may be thinking of "A challenger appears." Which is definitely from something.

[matthew @ Feb 5th 2008 5:58AM]

pretty sure he's right about street fighter 2

[Bloodpool @ Feb 5th 2008 8:58AM]

I believe that is from Soul Caliber

[Clasifyd @ Feb 5th 2008 9:13AM]

I was thinking Mortal Kombat. I've never played Street Fighter, so I wouldn't know. /shame

[Matthew Hilario @ Feb 5th 2008 11:38AM]

"Here comes a new challenger" = Tekken 5

[Sam @ Feb 5th 2008 3:41AM]

But... It can't overclock thanks to the stripped down BIOS from Dell. So no point in wasting money on it, it would be better to build a computer.

[webon @ Feb 5th 2008 3:59AM]

hey guys no word on the latitude?

[Erik @ Feb 5th 2008 5:08AM]

That's what I want to know.

Daddy's in the market for a laptop, not a desktop.

[pop @ Feb 5th 2008 4:50AM]

WTF with the sexist headlines ... jeezus x christie, are you guys like 13? Grow up goddam ....

[David @ Feb 5th 2008 10:45PM]

I liked it

[pop @ Feb 5th 2008 11:34PM]

You would ...

[Ayle @ Feb 5th 2008 5:14AM]

Am I the only one who read xbox 360 gaming laptop at first?

[Derred @ Feb 5th 2008 5:27AM]

Not everybody is lisdexic

[Chris @ Feb 5th 2008 6:03AM]

Will it have Windows Vista 64-bit or Windows XP Pro,home 64-bit?

[Ike Skelton @ Feb 5th 2008 8:21AM]

I'd bet money that it'll have Vista. Seems that only their business computer models still have XP options.

[Flashpoint @ Feb 5th 2008 8:20AM]

TO ANSWER EVERYONE'S OBVIOUS QUESTION...

"YES, IT CAN PLAY CRYSIS !"

[Clasifyd @ Feb 5th 2008 9:15AM]

I think a more pertinent question would be...
"Can it play Doom?"

[Oinquer @ Feb 6th 2008 11:09AM]

nope...but i can play duke nuken :D

[Chris Le @ Feb 5th 2008 9:21AM]

Engadget: leave the subtle misogyny to blogs owned by Denton. Come to think of it, leave the snarkiness to them too. I come here to read about emerging technology, not to hate on people.

[Richard @ Feb 5th 2008 12:20PM]

You must be new here. Welcome.

[Rahul Nag @ Feb 18th 2008 8:04AM]

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[Mark Simmons @ Apr 29th 2008 7:56AM]

This looks very Knight Rider