Dell XPS's

[Tuomio]

Tip:

1.Go to some major shop that sells computer parts.
2. Tell them that you need a custom built gaming rig and the budget is 2400$
3. When they tell you, that its impossible to spend so much money on the parts, set the budget "just"(insane IMO) to 2000$
4. Before checkout, buy 22" flat screen on sale for gift to your wife.
5. Go home
6.After week or so, open the door to the UPS guy.
7.Install the windows xp you had already on new rig that has full warranty for one year. Some of the parts usually have 36 months warranty, some even lifetime.
8.Now you are ready to play with computer, that is probably 2 times faster than that XPS and has outstanding driver support.

Thats how i did it..Didnt pay it myself, it was for my brother.

Custom built computers have always been extremely good choice from the day one, but nowdays its unparalled thanks to the matured markets. You dont need to know squat about the parts, let the nerds do the thinking for you.

Good rig will cost about 700$ these days, if you can use your old DVD-drives and such, its even less than that.

[68Wooley]

Originally posted by Hornet33
I've got screen shots where my frame rates are showing over 200. Be happy to e-mail you a couple if you have your doubts. Have a real nice one of me, Knuckels, and Toadflack flying a nice tight formation of 109's where it's showing a frame rate of 232.

I have no idea what my monitor refresh rate is set too. I've never looked because I've never had any problems with anything.

This is a stable machine and runs fast. Like I said, I love this thing.

I don't doubt your machine's capable of it - its a nice rig. The limitation is the monitor - the maximum frame rate a monitor can display is tied to its refresh rate and for flat screens that is usually 60Hz, sometimes 75Hz, making the max frame rate they can support 60 or 75 fps respectively.

Originally posted by tapakeg

I have my settings in AH set for unlimited frame rates, but it stops at 60fps

See above

[GtoRA2]

If you  have the money to waste they make an OK computer.

My sisters gaming XPS only had the sound card pop out every three days or so causing the system to not reboot and had 2 dell moniters go bad in 2 years.

All that and way more pricey then a gateway or HP. I use an HP prebuilt at work and wouldnt recomend it except over a dell.

I bought a Qaudcore 2.4 Gateway and slapped a 8800GTS in it and use it as my gaming rig, it came with 2 gigs of ram, adding 2 gigs and the video card still put it under 1500 bucks.


If you think the dell name is worth 900 bucks go for it.