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The XPS 730x is available with Dell’s patented two-stage H2C cooling system to keep your overclocked1 CPU and chipset cool and collected. The innovative H2C hybrid solution combines a liquid radiator, a thermoelectric cooling module and control circuitry, which optimizes CPU cooling with minimal power consumption.
The XPS 730x puts more control in your hands with the new XPS Thermal Monitor utility. Factory installed on all XPS 730x systems, the XPS Thermal Monitor utility gives you the ability to edit and profile the chassis fan settings so you can fine tune your thermal performance.
The XPS 730x packs all of its punch into a rock-solid, ATX-compliant chassis available in Brushed Aluminum, Anodized Victory Red or Stealth Blue with optional X-panel side covers.
Customize your lighting with Alienware’s cutting-edge AlienFX software. Designed from the ground up to support the XPS 730x platform, AlienFX gives the user an intuitive interface to set each of the five chassis LED zones to one of 16 colors. Millions of unique color combinations are at your fingertips.
Features
Intel Core i7 920/940/965 processor
Intel X-58 Chipset
Single card – ATI Radeon HD4850, NVIDIA GeForce 9800GT, NVIDIA GeForce GXT280
Dual card – ATI Radeon HD4850 CrossFireX
Up to 6GB DDR3 1066MHz memory
Several hard drive options
Gigabit Ethernet
7.1/5.1 HD Audio
Windows XP or Windows Vista
Review By Computershopper
How much cash are you willing to pay for your flash? With the release of Intel’s new Core i7 family of processors, which brings terrific performance out of the stratospheric price ranges where it’s too often been trapped in recent years, that question is going to be of increasing importance. Since outstanding machines can now be built from middle-of-the-road CPUs, even in the gaming-desktop category, the balance between green and glitz is going to be more crucial than ever. A machine like Dell’s new XPS 730x is right on the edge.
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Review By Tomshardware
Dell has left the XPS chassis true to its previous models, so there’s no huge change here. However, some minor adjustments have been made to the chassis thermal monitoring system. All important system statistics can be viewed in real time via the XPS Thermal Monitor utility with the ability to drag and drop individual fan or temperature monitoring widgets anywhere on the desktop. The XP Thermal Monitoring application runs in the background and uses very little resources since all of its operations are handles by a dedicated chip.
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Review By Hothardware
The XPS’ lighting system also recives an update, this time with some borrowed technology from Alienware. The XPS 730x supports the AlienFX utility which lets you control and finely tune the XPS’ multi-zone, multi-color LED lighting system or disable it altogether for that ‘stealth’ look. Each zone can be assigned a specific color and event-driven lighting is also supported allowing you to set zone lighting to change automatically when programs are launched or mail is received.
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Review By Compreviews
The graphics of the XPS 730H2X are held back more by what Dell has to offer customers in graphics cards. ATI has made significant strides in catching up to NVIDIA in the performance department, but the latest Radeon HD 3870 cards still fall behind the GeForce 8800 and 9800 series cards for raw performance. The mystery is why Dell doesn’t offer the higher end 9800 GTX and 9800 GX2 cards currently. This of course could change but until it does, there are some higher performance platforms available.
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Review By Pcmag
The XPS 730 also sleeps well. It consumes only 4 watts in sleep mode and 2W while off. This still doesn’t make the unit a green PC, because the XPS 730 uses 278W while idle, but that’s about average for a gaming box, considering all the bells and whistles it comes with. You can’t be all that energy efficient when you have three hard drives, four GPUs, a quad-core processor, and all that lighting to power. The power usage jumped to a whopping 362W when under load on the CineBench test. For kicks, I also checked the system informally while it was running the 3DMark06 demo at 2,560-by-1,600 resolution, and the power consumption was over 600 watts.
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Review By Electronista
A base system at $2,599 sports a 2.93GHz processor, 3GB of memory, a 640GB hard drive, a Radeon HD 4850 for video and a Creative SoundBlaster X-Fi for audio. Besides options carried over from the Studio XPS, the XPS 730x also gets variants with liquid cooling, GeForce GTX 280 or Radeon HD 4870 X2 video, and more exotic storage that can include 2TB RAID 0+1 split across four drives or a 300GB Western Digital Velociraptor for raw performance.
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