Dell Introduces XPS 600 Renegade (Link)

At CES, Dell unveiled the latest entry in its gaming and enthusiast XPS line. The new XPS, dubbed "Renegade," is a special limited-edition configuration that breaks the XPS mold in a number of ways. This is an ultra-high-end computer aimed and buyers for whom money is no object.

The new system sports a red flaming paint job that makes it stand out from every other Dell computer, but it's the inside components that are most interesting. The Renegade's CPU is a dual-core Pentium 4 Extreme Edition, mode 955, overclocked from the factory to a whopping 4.26GHz. The standard hard drive configuration is two 10,000 RPM 150GB Raptor drives, for which Dell has the first large volume availability. The system is cooled by the standard XPS 600 cooling system, though it will use a more powerful power supply, perhaps one from Dell's workstation line.

Most exciting is the new graphics configuration. This new limited edition XPS uses no less than four GeForce 7800 GTX 512MB graphics cards. That's right, it's quad graphics. Two of the cards are plugged into two x16 PCIe graphics slots in the nForce 4 based custom Dell motherboard, and the other two slave off those two. The GeForce 7800 GTX 512MB cards are custom made for Dell, and run at a slightly lower clock speed than standard 7800 GTX 512MB cards, but higher than the 256MB cards. The point of all this graphics power? To drive Dell's new 30" ultra hi-res LCD monitor, which sports a resolution of 2560x1600.

The following are the specs as mentioned in Dell website:

• Quad NAVIDIA SLI Technolgy - Dual 1GB NVIDIA Geforce 7800 SLI Graphics cards.
• NVDIA NForce 4 SLI X16
• Intel Pentium Extreme Edition Dual-Core 955 W?HT overclocked to 4.26 GHz
• 2GB Dual-Channel DDR2 SDRAM at 667 MHz
• Custom paint job by Mike Lavallee of Killer Paint.
• Signed by Mike Lavallee & Michel Dell
• Additional Gear from Logitech, Western Digital, Klipsch, Saitek, Plextor, and Creative.

Dell anticipates shipping the new XPS system by the end of January, with prices ranging from about $4,000 to 7,000 plus, depending on display and other options.