The XPS 700 is a higher-end gaming desktop, with a silver finish and air-conditioning-vent-like front. Comes with either Pentium Extreme Edition Dual Core, Pentium D Dual Core, or Pentium 4 with HyperThreading. NVIDIA nForce 590 SLI, up to three 500 GB hard disks and up to 4 GB of DDR2 memory round out the package.
Both the aluminum case and the banded red plastic across the front and back panels (it’s also available in black) give the XPS 700-case a fighter-jet feel. Red LEDs on the front and the back light up the various ports and drive-panel buttons in the dark–one of the few truly functional applications for lighting we’ve seen on a desktop. An easy-pull tab and a clever latching mechanism make the side panel easy to remove and replace.

With the ever-increasing commoditization of desktop PCs, design is one of the few remaining ways a PC vendor can distinguish itself. The XPS 700 shows that Dell finally understands that it can’t survive on rebates and bundled printers alone, especially in the hypercompetitive realm of high-end gaming PCs.XPS 700 simply looks like a powerful computer that’s been built with as much care as a system from any of the small shop boutique vendors.

Review By Dell

Heavy Ordnance

Next Generation Gaming Machine available in Special Edition Formula Red or Jet Black
Genuine Windows® XP Media Center Edition 2005
750 Watt or 1 KW power supply and Front and back LED lights
Ultra-expandability with room for up to 3 hard drives and 1.5TB of data

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Review By Bit-Tech

Dell created something of a storm when it unveiled its new range of gaming machines back at E3 this year (check our our report from the show). After some problems and delays with production, it is finally shipping systems to buyers, and we got our hands on one of the first out of the doors.

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Review By Review.Zdnet

Dell originally announced the XPS 700 with Intel’s previous-generation Pentium D 900 chips. You can still order those models–at significant savings–but we highly recommend that you don’t, because Intel’s new Core 2 Duo and Core 2 Extreme chips are far superior. The XPS 700 Dell sent to us came with the Core 2 Extreme X6800, which is currently the fastest chip on the market. With that CPU as its foundation, this XPS 700 becomes an elite-level gaming PC, a category Dell has not had success with in some time.

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Review By Reviews.Cnet

Now that it’s blessed with Intel’s new Core 2 Duo processors, Dell’s new XPS 700 high-end gaming desktop finally brings true revitalization to Dell’s boutique-class PCs. From the striking case design to the internal polish to the cutting-edge hardware, Dell can finally compete alongside the likes of Falcon Northwest, Velocity Micro, and Dell’s own Alienware subsidiary for the hearts and minds of well-heeled enthusiast gamers.

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Review By Pcworld

The Dell XPS 700 is a big, powerful system that has plenty of processing muscle to spare. Flexing Intel’s 2.66-GHz Core 2 Duo E6700 processor and 2GB of DDR2-667 RAM, the system earned an impressive score of 153 on our WorldBench 5 benchmark. That puts it behind the ABS Ultimate X9, which scored an incredible 181 (and which uses a Core 2 Extreme X6800 processor), but it’s still 9 percent higher than the average score of our four previous top-performing systems, all of which used 2.6-GHz Athlon 64 X2 FX-60 CPUs. One area of big improvement was multitasking: in our test running both Windows Media Encoder and a Web browser at the same time, the Dell ran 14 percent faster than the quickest Athlon-based systems.

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