Michael Dell's keynote at CES yesterday
included news of the latest in their line of XPS PCs. The aggressively named Dell XPS 600 Renegade's most notable
feature is its inclusion of four NVIDIA 7800 SLI graphics cards, for a total of 2GB of VRAM. While this isn't the first
time we've seen four GPU cores inside a
PC, it's the first time a commercial PC manufacturer has offered such a powerful bundle out of the box. If you're going to have four graphics cards inside your machine, you've got to have the components to back 'em up. That's why they've also included a factory overclocked Intel Extreme Edition 4.26GHz processor along with a total of 650GB of hard disk space. This is after you get over the flame grilled case design, which hopefully isn't a forewarning of inadequate cooling. So how much cash would you have to set aside to



















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I'm sure they are in competition with Alienware to see who can make the most expensive machine that people can build for half the cost themselves.
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You can't compare a console to a PC with hardware specs. This is b/c PC's have to run the OS (which eats up loads of RAM), drivers plus they are designed to do other things as well.
Consoles are built from the ground up to be primarily gaming machines which is why say the Xbox with its Celeron 733Mhz CPU, 64MB of RAM and Geforce3 Ti200 range graphics chip can have some of the best graphics of the 3 systems.
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