Sleek new Studio XPS 435 materializes on Dell website
By Ross Miller 
posted February 25th 2009 2:34AM
posted February 25th 2009 2:34AM
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Ho shit..! hope the price is good.
Just got one this weekend at work. Shit is sweet. Fast as hell. :)
Just build one yourself and the price will be awesome.
Use google to find OVERCLOCKERS forums, they know how to pick components, where to buy them, how to install, can help with overclocking and pushing the machine to the max.
And you won't have to pay extra for stuff you don't want.
My PC's faster :P simply because my Q9550@3.65ghz beats crap out of 3.2 i7, same as GTX 280 (with clocks of GTX 285 hehe) beats crap out of 4870.
Other than that its a really nice machine. Except the fact I don't like Extreme Edition CPUs - $1000 for "extreme" in the name, while you can get the same speed while saving $700 on CPU. But machine's nice :P
@Shinigami
ha no your cpu isnt better than an i7. the i7 has 8 threads and is a better achitecture than core2. combined with the fact that the 965XE can easily OC to 4ghz... and it has more ram than your life, its ddr3 and itrs trippe channel with an integrated memory controller...
oh and my 3.8ghz i7 920 beats your cpu.
I've been watching the prices on the core i7's if the specs mentioned are accurate, then this box will likely cost over $2,000 USD. The CPU and Mobo alone are over 1,000. (it might be a little cheaper for dell since they're an OEM; bulk discount, etc..)
This past weekend I built twin Core i7 rigs my bro and I have been buying pieces for over the past month or so.
We've even differed our OS purchase to later this year my running the Windows 7 64 beta. (With a surprising amount of success!)
Asus P6T6 WS Revolution MB
Core i7 920 CPU
CoolerMaster V8 CPU Cooler
6GB Corsair RAM (For starters)
MSI OCed 285 (One for starters)
Asus 22" 1080p LCD
These things are PHENOMENAL, and we haven't OCed our 920s yet.
Awesome stuff, but BUILD IT YOURSELF by all means if you're up where the air is rare ANYWAY.
You get SO much more for the money if you're willing to do the work for yourself.
Hork,
Good luck overclocking a Dell.
Your first obstacle will be their restrictive BIOS's.
If you somehow manage to find just enough potential locked away there (a remotely slim chance at that), then your second obstacle becomes the comparatively crappy heatsinks they put in their systems.
If you happen to find a way to fit one of the better heatsink/fan or water cooling units into their systems (most have many obstacles that get in the way) and a way to overclock it, then you will have to worry about the relatively cheap power supplies they put into their systems that are usually made to deliver just the right amount of power for the default configuration, not an overclocked one.
After that is all said and done, it will either be an exercise in frustration or one in which you would have to have purchased a separate power supply, a separate cooling unit, and still not have a chance of getting a decent overclock out of them due to the very nature of their motherboards and BIOS's , which are not made with overclocking in mind.
Lastly, you will have already spent way more than you should have if you had instead built it yourself.
is that wood grain?
What? no esta?
cheap bastards.
@Shinigami
Your overclocked C2Q will only beat a standard-clocked Core i7 in a very limited number of specific circumstances -- mostly in rare gaming situations where the processing is CPU-bound.
For the majority of applications, the Nehalem with 8 threads and twice the memory bandwidth will easily prevail.
hmm that monitor seems new. Haven't seen it before.
that's what I was thinking - I just bought a couple dell monitors (love the monitors & servers, hate the generic boxes) and I didn't see anything like that on their site. Not a fan of silver though, so, eh.
Yeah, noticed that too. Curious about the specs and price...
Come on engadget!
That is sleek.
Ok, this is for "proffessionals" right?
How can i get a job where i need 24Gb of RAM?
Up to 24gb. 24gb will be quite expensive, since you'll need 4gb sticks, 6 of them.
You think you need 4.5TB space? I have 1TB and I gave my other 400gb drive away since I didn't need it.
Some people will certainly benefit from this.
As a Microsoft systems engineer, I can never have enough RAM, on my desktop PC I have many virtual machines running and if you have a couple of Exchange 2007 servers, then those alone will need 8GB for the 2 VMs plus more for other infrastructure servers, Vista clients etc.
Wish I could run everything from my MacBook Pro but not very practical.
I am more interested in that panel than the tower itself.
You wouldn't by any chance be a Mac user, would you?
@ chispito
No, if he were a Mac user he wouldn't be interested in some Dell monitor.
gad get: hey you really showed those mac users what snobs they are with your sweeping generalization!
protip: not every mac user is a rambling lunatic like ieye, just as every pc user isn't a douche like you
@ Uncontrol
Way to overreact. Nice name, BTW.
Havent been following I7, but why is the fsb only 1066?
And does 1mb not sound that impressive graphics wise?
And theres only one PCIe 16, so no SLI
FSB has been replaced by the QuickPath interface.
Whats that...?
I don't know, but I'm sure my friends Google and Wikipedia do.
And just to be a dick and so that you can't say this post is worthless:
The Intel QuickPath Interconnect ("QuickPath", "QPI") is a point-to-point processor interconnect developed by Intel to compete with HyperTransport. Prior to the announcement of the name, Intel referred to it as Common System Interface or "CSI". Earlier incarnations were known as YAP (Yet Another Protocol) and YAP+. The development was conducted at Intel's MMDC (Massachusetts Microprocessor Design Center) by members of DEC's Alpha Development Group (acquired by Intel). It will replace the Front Side Bus (FSB) for Desktop, Xeon, and Itanium platforms. Intel first delivered it in November 2008 on the Intel Core i7 desktop processor and the X58 chipset, and it will be used on new Nehalem-based Xeon processors and Tukwila-based Itanium processors.
The QPI is an element of a system architecture that Intel calls the QuickPath architecture that implements what Intel calls QuickPath technology. In its simplest form on a single-processor motherboard, a single QPI is used to connect the processor to the IO Hub (e.g., to connect a Intel Core i7 to an X58.) In more complex instances of the architecture, separate QPI links connect one or more processors and one or more IO hubs or routing hubs in a network on the motherboard, allowing all of the components to access other components via the network. As with AMD's Hypertransport, the QuickPath Architecture assumes that the processors will have integrated memory controllers, so a multiprocessor system implements a NUMA architecture.
Each QPI comprises two 20-bit point-to-point links, one in each direction, with a separate clock in each direction, for a total of 42 signals. Each signal is a differential pair, so the total number of pins is 84.
Performance numbers for QuickPath are reported to be 4.8 to 6.4 Gigatransfers per second (GT/s) per direction. Therefore the bandwidth amounts to 12.0 to 16.0 GB/s per direction, or 24.0 to 32.0 GB/s per link.
On high-reliability servers, A QPI link can operate in a degraded mode. If one or more of the 20+1 signals fails, the interface will operate using 15+1, 10+1, or even 5+1 remaining signals, even reassigning the clock to a data signal if the clock fails.
The initial Nehalem implementation uses a 20-bit wide 25.6 GB/s link (operating at a width of 16-bits, as reported in the Intel Nehalem Speech on IDF). This 25.6 GB/s link provides exactly double the theoretical bandwidth of Intel's 1600 MHz FSB used in the X48 chipset.
Current processors operate at 16 bit link widths. The rate at which the QPI functions is based also on the CPU at hand; The Core i7 920 and 940 function at 9.6 GB/s unidirectional and 19.2 GB/s bidirectional while the Core i7 965XE functions at 12.8 GB/s and 25.6 GB/s respectively.
A Glossy Black front panel on a G5 case?
Since you had a question mark, I assume you want an answer.
"No"
Does it never end? It's a box! How many looks can a box have? Gah!
If you have to ask, you can't afford it.
Theyll have these in old Rolls Royce garages once all the luxury car companies have gone bust.
This thing looks like its just had a valet...
engadget quick question
why is it that ever mac rumor and ipod knockoff gets an article
but safari 4 has been out all day and you haven't mentioned it yet
Safari 4 is out? Huh.... I don't give a crap (Firefox fan speaking), but it is kinda weird they haven't mentioned it.
i'm a mac user who doesn't use windows but i still care about windows news
i probably won't get a palm pre but i follow it anyway because it's really fascinating
being interested only in news about stuff you personally use/are a fan of is a bit short-sighted, especially in an industry where everything influences everything else
"being interested only in news about stuff you personally use/are a fan of is a bit short-sighted"
Let me know if Apple ever opens up Safari and allows anyone who wants to develop add-ons to do so freely. Actually, you won't have to, since that would be the story of the month here on Engadget. Until pigs fly, I have very good reasons for not giving a crap about Safari, or IE, or even Opera.
Uncontrol: Submit the news and see if it gets posted.
Oh and lighten up. Gad Get agreed with you in the first post.
i did submit it, hours and hours ago in fact, and every apple website has been covering it all day
They covered it yesterday when it was released, Safari 4 Public Beta that is.
Oh, that was Gizmodo I was thinking of. Disregard the above post.
What is the point of Engadget reporting on something that everyone else is reporting on? Considering that there are only five lonely people who actually use Safari I don't see why we should care.
sexy
The only point in maxing out the settings on this would be if you were planning on putting a new graphics card in like a GTX 295, or at least a 4870 x2, once you start overclocking the i7 (it would be stupid not to, you can easily overclock a 920 to 3.5 ghtz). What happens is that the performance with applications that use all of the logical cores will be bottle necked by the graphics card, which has only 1gig of ddr5 graphics memory, and true, 1 gig is very good, but when you get such high quality clock speeds with your $1000 cpu, 1 gigabyte just isn't enough
Looks like the wifes GTi. Check out the similarities. It's all I thought of when I saw the pic above.
http://i43.tinypic.com/veohg5.jpg
Had a look at one first hand. The front really is plastic. Yes, really. If you like the sound of fork vs plate you can move the front cover up and down repeatedly ;)
Best sound since fingernails on a chalkboard!
I really, truly respect Dell for how they have evolved from a bargain-basement brand with a pretty terrible reputation to a brand pushing out great, stylish and functional products.
However, that ugly, archaic logo wrecks all of their otherwise good-looking gear!
That is exactly what my reaction was. Maybe Dell can include a Sharpie to blackout their ugmo logo.
They are trying their hardest to make the logo work in the new sleek industrial design of its products, by chucking it into a circle. Which is about all they can do short of a full ID makeover. I think dell has evolved enough for the brand to be safe under a new Logo.