Most of the new screen background have Intel ’s impressive Core i7 central processing unit are square - up gaming powerhouses , with pricetags to match . That ’s why I ’m so pleased to see a glowing inspection of Dell ’s Studio XPS , which starts at a very affordable $ 950 . DesktopReview strike it for a spin and found that , despite one or two small trouble , the Studio XPS is lightning fast and a great tidy sum . The quad - core proc was able to manage audio and TV compression a few times faster than rival Saratoga chip from AMD , and was the top of the heap in almost every benchmark they confuse at it . Given it ’s not a gaming electronic computer , the Studio XPS did highly well on the gaming benchmark , and yes , it can run Crysis without blow up . The downsides ? The design is n’t heartstopping , as it look like middling much every other Dell simple machine out there , and DesktopReview thinks the punishing drive conformation could be faster . But all in all , it ’s a starring buy if you need a fast - as - it - gets political machine that can even do a piddling gaming on the side . [ DesktopReviewviaEngadget ]
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