Okay, well I've narrowed my search to these 2 Units for a Gaming Rig. I play Crysis,Sims,Halo's, I also want to have it ready for Crysis 2 which is coming out next year I play A lot of War Games COD's, Racing Games, Flight Simulator Games, Some Video Editing, A lot of Music, and a big library of TV Shows, Movies, and just pictures. So Which one would be better Price isn't the issue and I can get the Dell XPS unit that I want at a good Price at about 2,500. Which is the Liquid Cooling, Over Clocked Processor, Dual Graphic Cards. So it just comes down to Value. I am Building my own PC but I'm waiting for some parts that will be coming out later this year. So I need a unit Now. Price isn't the issue as long as its under 4,200.00 What are the Pros and Cons of each unit. Also which games can I play on the Highest Settings and which games will choke/lag and at what settings can I put those games on to make it smooth. The Best Answer gets 10 Points.
Dell XPS 730 H2C - Specs
Stealth Blue Anodized Aluminum Chassis, 1.1KW PSU
Intel® Core™ i7-965 Extreme - Level 2 (Factory O/C'd to 3.73GHz, 8MB L3 Cache)
Dell CPU Liquid/TEC Cooling ATX Unit
Windows Vista™ Premium
Adobe® Acrobat® Reader 9.0 Multi-Language
Microsoft® Works 9
1Yr Ltd Hardware Warranty, InHome Service after Remote Diagnosis
Single, nVidia GeForce GTX 295, 1.75GB
6GB Tri-Channel DDR3 at 1066MHZ (3x2GB DIMM)
1TB - SATA-II, 3GB/S, 7200RPM, 32MB Cache
Dual Drives: Blu-ray Disc (BD) Burner (Writes to DVD/CD/BD) and DVD-ROM
Sound Blaster X-Fi Titanium
Dell 19-in-1 Media Card Reader with Bluetooth 2.0
Norton Internet Security 2008 Edition 15-months
HP Firebird - Specs
* NVIDIA nForce 760i SLI chipset
* Core 2 Quad Q9550 2.83GHz processor
* 4GB of RAM
* Dual NVIDIA GeForce 9800S cards
* Two 320GB SATA drives
* Blu-ray
* 5-in-1 card reader
* 6 USB, 1 FireWire, 2 eSATA, 1 S/PDIF and 1 DVI dual-link
* Bluetooth
* 802.11n WiFi
The Price of the Firebird starts at 1,000.00 and ends at 2,000. The Dell starts at 1,600 and the Configure I would get is about 4,000
If I get the HP Firebird I can get a new Playstation 3 (Mine Broke) or if a New PS3 Slim comes out, Purchase a 25" Monitor up to 1080p Resolution, and if Apple Releases a Touch Screen Netbook/Tablet. Also some games for my consoles and PC. Which is why its so hard. Since the HP Firebird is cheaper. I can get so much more with the HP but is it worth the sacrifice in power. I have the 3 gaming consoles so Gaming on the PC would be nice but not 100%.
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