What is mindblowing is any serious gamer who does not build their own rig.

Another Dell...This machine is nothing special.

Buy this for $3000 from Dell or build it for $1200.

This machine is nothing special.

Purchase from Dell for $3,000 or built it for $1,200

^+11111. I too don't understand that. I know people don't have much time, but seriously, if you can find time to game then you can most certainly find time to build it your self. Even if you don't know how to do it, there are places like Toms,etc and many guides/websites that can help out with your first build.

after you realize how much you paid for so little (2x-3x what you could build it for), yes, i'd say it was "Mind Blowing"

it only supports a single PCI-express x16 slot!

Not to mention plenty of other online system builders who would be glad to build a high end PC for MUCH less (If you don't have the know-how or time to do it yourself)

HAHAHAhahaha, jeesh, mind blowing, from a 4850 to 4870 LOL, will be overpriced just like the rest of the xps line.

granted their laptops are not bad value for money (take the studio 17 line) but seriously, dell for a high spec gaming machine, no head over to rock or another performance builder if you cant do it yourself.

I mean, yes go with x58, yes i7 but for goodness sake, 1 yes ONE pcix16, youre having a laugh Dell LOL The case is a mess, definately restricted airflow, crappy cooler, no doubt dell revised bios (goodbye overclock) and possibly the worst cable management on any high end system ive ever seen yet.

No dell stick to budget quality for the masses and leave the custom rigs to alienware, thats why you bought them out anyways isnt it!

Way i look at it, as much as i hate Dell, they are doing in right, people will buy it because they are ignorant, of course you and i (the avid PC builder/enthusiest) would think it's nonsense to buy one of these systems, but remember habout 80% of americans are completely mindless and ignorant, Dell is getting paid to exploit this... It's highway robbery, but it happens...

if your buying a dell xps its for the warranty. nothing more, nothing less then piece of mind.

"Here son, I bought you a $3000 computer with a $200 graphics card in it, have fun!"

Seriously, companys like Alienware and Voodoo may have been boughtout with corporate greed, but there are plenty of new upstarts to shop from. Support smaller business, don't just blindly throw your money into Dell's swelling bank account.

Dell's computers are generally just crap. My old "workstation" PC at work had dual-Xeons, but only 1GB of memory and a 40GB harddrive. My current "desktop" at work has 2GB of memory, but only an 80GB harddrive and a meager 1.8GHz Celeron. What blind monkey pieces these computers together, and why do companys pay millions/billions of dollars a year to lease them?

1. Companies pay millions/billions of dollars to lease them because they have incompetant IT guys that do not have a concience because they are spending corporate money when they are told to get every computer in the company updated...

2. The "blind monkey" that builds these machines are the monkeys that DELL outsources to, like India, Mexico, etc...

3. The combination of the two is part of the reason this country is so screwed up. Companies like dell take advantage of MOST of the general public and they have proprietary products as well as horrible support. welcome to America...

or as DELL support would say... (in heavy indian accent) "Welcome for calling DELL, my name is John Thomas"

The nigh mets are my favor-it squadron.

tell me about it you get a PC cheaper and get every specific part you want when you build your own PC. Just wish it was that way with laptops

Yeah and then cripple it by ripping a pci-e slot off of the mobo and then call it a dell

Oh so true....
Take a look here:
http://www.tomsguide.com/us/PlaySt [...] -3514.html
People don't even have commonsense.

$1000 in parts paired with a cheap ass power supply assured to fry your $1000 in parts.

DID I read this right? No CrossFire or SLI? That is mindblowing that they would sell a PC for 3Grand and NOT GIVE YOU THAT OPTION. Dell the Other Apple.

WOO YEAH I LOVE THOSE.

Saddly you can get something better from cyberpower and the like. What kind of X58 board only has 1 PCI-E graphics slot? Well looking at the system information it seems as though it also offers 1 8x slot, but I wonder. Anyway I can't see anybody who knows anything actually recommending this thing.

The only reason bussinesses buy overpriced Dell Computers is for the warranties, when that crappy intergrated graphics fails.

Where is this $3000 coming from? I am going to bet its more like $4000+ if you want 4.5 TB HDD space. Any takers? lol

I recommend that all my friends and family buy Dell. That why when it breaks and they call me, I can give them the number to Dell Tech support.

I took over the IT position at my work. The old IT guy had purchased ALL Dell. Needless to say I insisted on building my own PC when I came.

I do think that Dell has improved over the last few years (a little). I had to open up a machine that was purchased about six months ago and was surprised at the quality. The board was Intel branded, the heatsink was HUGE and even had a fan on it, and the cable management was very neat (although it was a pain to take the power supply out as the routing was f'd up). It only took about 3 minutes on a chat session to get a replacement part and was received the next day. I didn't even have to go through the dumb ass troubleshooting questions like I always got from them in the past! However, the power supplies are still crap, the memory still seems to go bad fairly often, and I still think they use some of their "refurbished" hard drives in new machines as they also seem to go bad quite often.

I'm not sure where the $3000 - $4000 is coming from. I was going to build a new workstation from Cyberpower PC but it gave the IT guys at work heartburn. So instead I ordered this from Dell $1099, 12GB RAM (Newegg) $200, EVGA GTX260 (Newegg) $200, 600w powersupply $129 and for $1600, everybody's happy, The IT types because it says Dell and me because it will tear up Photoshop, and play a decent game. The same thing from Cyberpower PC was about $150 cheaper but I like the 435 case.

So now all of us fools who bought the very expensive and faulty XPS 730x, are screwed once again.

The 730x has 228 posts about it in ONE THREAD on the Dell forums for LOSING POWER, REBOOTING, and CRASHING OVER AND OVER without Dell FIXING the issue.

Now this MUCH CHEAPER Xps One 435 has 24 GIG Ram, as opposed to the crummy 6 Gig Ram of the Xps 730x, Dell's so called HIGHEST END XPS. The XPs One 435 also has the SAME I7 chipset as the much more EXPENSIVE Xps 730x.

What is worng with this picture?

Hey, I'm not ignorant and I bought a Dell 435MT...

For $800, it was a pretty decent deal for building a basic Core i7 system. I could have bought all the parts from a local shop (for more) or parts from places like newegg (for about the same) - but then a Dell system just works. You buy it, you set it in the corner, and you forget about it.

Where Dell will kill you is if you start buying all their over-prices options. If you just want a basic system, Dell is a good value. If you want to build a top end gaming machine, or if you are a tweaker - then of coarse Dell it not the machine for you.

BTW - mind-blowing? (not). Article is also deceiving - the memory and drive limitations of the earlier 435 are.... Mostly Dell's marketing team. They don't offer more as standard options - you just buy them yourself. IE, you can put 2 drives in it (but your only offered 1 drive as an option).
Really, isn't it just the same hardware in a new case with slightly larger PS?