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Dream PCs 2007: Dell
Day two of Dream PC week and we've got video of the entry from the world's biggest PC manufacturer, Dell
At Custom PC we only run one PC labs test a year: the Dream PC competiton. Once every twelve months we challenge a select group of PC manufacturers to enter a very simple, but very demanding competition: build the best PC you can, money no object. This year, we imposed only two requirements on the four invited manufacturers: the systems had to be supplied with a monitor capable of displaying a 1,920 x 1,200 image; and they must have some form of Windows Vista installed (although Windows XP could be included too), so that we could try out the latest DirectX 10 games.
This year, our four entrants - Dell, Gladiator, Scan and Vadim - submitted PCs toting 57.16GHz worth of CPUs, 15GB of RAM, 6.14GB of graphics RAM, 6.57TB of hard disk space and 4kW of power.
Our analysis of these four incredible PCs will be in Issue 50 of the magazine, which is out for subscribers at the end of this week and on newstands on the 27th of September. To whet your appetites however, every day this week we'll be featuring a video of one of the entrants on www.custompc.co.uk.
Day One: Vadim
Day Two: Dell
Day Three: Gladiator
Day Four: Scan
To continue Dream PC week 2007, we've got some footage of Dell's XPS 720 HC. Yes it's a Dell, but it's cooled using a combination of liquid and TECs and it's overclocked :
