XPS 730 pops up on Dell's support site

It was kinda-sorta announced at CES and we've already seen some in-the-wild shots, but it looks like Dell's newest gaming PC, the XPS 730, is getting close to release -- it's just gotten an official entry on Dell's support site. Nothing really earth-shattering to be found, except for some hints that it'll ship with either XP or Vista and confirmation that it's triple-SLI ready in the owners manual. Alright, secret's out -- let's see some specs, guys.

[Thanks, Andrew and Thomas]

[webon @ Apr 24th 2008 7:14PM]

nothing dull here, no sir, pretty damn cool I says

[Pochi @ Apr 24th 2008 7:18PM]

Dell kicks ass, I don't care how much "hardcore" users would love to think otherwise.

DELL. Yeah.

[ethana2 @ Apr 24th 2008 8:05PM]

Absolutely! The first big company to give the consumer real OS choice!
I think I'm going to buy an Inspiron laptop pretty soon after they roll out 8.04 on their machines.

[Andrew Kuehler @ Apr 24th 2008 7:26PM]

You forgot to mention that this thing also uses the nForce 790i SLI board and supports DDR3 RAM. It's going to be sweet. I can only hope that it is ATX designed like it's little brother the XPS 630. Yay for standards compliance, finally.

[alitman @ Apr 24th 2008 8:18PM]

The specs are there, in the manual.. page 203..
3 X PCIe x16 (2 generation 2, 1 Generation1)
2 X PCIe x1
2 X PCI
1 IDE
6 SATA
USB 2 front, 6 back
1384 1 front, 1 back
chipset 790i
DDR3
Intel core 2 extreme

[Gerald @ Apr 24th 2008 8:23PM]

Processor type


Intel® Core™ 2 Duo (Performance dual core)

Intel® Core™ 2 Quad (Performance quad core)

Intel® Core™ 2 Extreme (Extreme performance quad core)

Cache


at least 4 MB

Memory

Type


800 MHz and faster DDR3 unbuffered SDRAM; SLI memory

Memory connectors


four

Memory capacities


512 MB, 1 GB, and 2 GB

Minimum memory


1 GB

Maximum memory


8 GB

NOTE: See Addressing Memory Configurations to verify the amount of memory available to the operating system.

Computer Information

Chipset

Northbridge

Southbridge


nForce 790i SLI

nForce 790i SLI SPP

nForce 790i SLI MCP

BIOS chip (NVRAM)


8 Mb

NIC


two integrated network interfaces capable of 10/100/1000 communication

Video

Type


dual PCIe x16 Generation 2

single PCIe x16 Generation 1

Audio

Type


HDA 7.1 channel, Realtek 888 codec

[Pochi @ Apr 24th 2008 8:27PM]

So much dead space. So much...

[milton359 @ Apr 24th 2008 9:58PM]

so much money. so much

[JB @ Apr 24th 2008 10:09PM]

Someone should ask PC Magazine . com why they pulled their announcement of the XPS 730 off their site this morning, less than an hour after I posted the link to a Dell Forum. Their announcement quoted prices starting at $4,999.00 and going over $6,300.00 and gave some of the details of the available builds. Guess Mr. D. didn't like that being made public!!!

[Basic @ Apr 24th 2008 10:27PM]

So... with the meager benefit triple SLI gives us, perhaps an Ageia PhysX or Havok(?) card is slated for the 3rd slot?

[Andrew Kuehler @ Apr 24th 2008 10:55PM]

Nvidia bought Ageia already and are about to allow any 8000+ series card to become basically a physx card. So, do two cards in sli for graphics, and a third for physics.

[Dan @ Apr 24th 2008 11:01PM]

It's quite significant for Australia (where it launches next week).. it's the first time Dell's offered watercooling from the factory.

[Vassil Mladjov @ Apr 25th 2008 2:34AM]

Well,
I got the XPS 720 late last year for my CTO, OMFG, was this a big mistake. From video driver problems to power supplies to replacing all the parts 3 times (YES, 3 TIMES). In the mean time, DELL broke the PC after the second time and it took me 2 months (YES, TWO MONTHS) to get them to fix what they broke.
I even have a UT video on this here :
http://www.blogtronix.com/blogtronix.com/355

I must have been on the phone with the nice Anke from Bangalore for days over this one. You can aslo just type http://www.dellhel.com or www.delhell.com :)