Compare Prices : Dell XPS 630 - Expert Reviews

Review summary: You have to wonder, looking at the Dell XPS 630, in which capacity the company expected the computer to be used. Did...

Review summary: On paper, the Dell XPS 630 offers everything the discerning gamer could want.

Verdict: While not outstanding value, the Dell XPS 630 is a good machine sporting a few unique touches. It's well built, attractive, quiet and still offers some room for future expansion. Meanwhile, its components will let you run most games, with the ...

Review summary: Dell's XPS 630 is a stylish and competitively priced mainstream gaming PC that can be souped up with extras such as an Ageia PhysX accelerator, a Blu-ray Disc drive, and up to 4GB of DDR2-800 Corsair Dominator memory.

Verdict: Chipset concerns aside, the XPS 630 is a well-built, highly customisable midrange gaming system that delivers good performance for the price.

Review summary: At $1959 (as of August 8, 2008), this configuration of Dell's XPS 630 desktop is quite a bit more affordable than its $3229 gaming-oriented sibling that we recently reviewed.

Pros: Competitively priced

Cons: A few chip-set limitations

Verdict: In general application performance, this XPS 630 (equipped with a 3.16-GHz Core 2 Duo E8500 CPU and 4GB of DDR2-800 Corsair Dominator memory) delivered a WorldBench score of 114, whereas the gaming XPS 630 (equipped with a QX6850 CPU) achieved a score ...

Review summary: Customizable desktop system provides affordable gaming performance in a stylish package.

Pros: Good performance ; Dual graphics cards

Cons: A few chipset limitations

Verdict: SLI configurations tend to provide their greatest benefit when powering games at higher resolutions--say, 1600 by 1200 and above. If high-resolution gaming is your thing, you might want to upgrade from the bundled 22-inch wide-screen LCD (supporting ...