Probably Dell most Noisy/Expensive computers ever made.

oscar3d · Post by **oscar3d** » Wed Jan 11, 2006 2:36 pm

Have you checked the Dell XPS 600 Renegade?

Links:

http://www.legitreviews.com/article/285/1/

http://www.hexus.net/content/item.php?item=4332

4 GPS doing SLI!!!? JEEEZ!! I want to see how silent it is...

I've had an XPS 600 before coming to my new custom silent system. Those things were expensive and noisy already...

I won't ever go back to Dell again!!!

qviri · Post by **qviri** » Wed Jan 11, 2006 3:10 pm

OTOH, my Dell (Precision 4200? something like that, can't remember) at work is a very nice machine. It features a P4-2.4GHz Northwood with a tower-like heatsink close to the rear fan vent so that the CPU fan doubles up as a case fan. The PSU is quiet as well. Overall it's rather inaudible; then again, my office environment is not the quietest, however that is fixed with a pair of Sennheisers.

Oh, and it has a Seagate Cheetah 15.3K SCSI in it and I must say I had louder drives that did only 5400 rpm. Heck, I can hear the seeks of a hard-mounted beast (dunno what it is) in the next cubicle, but no distinguishable sonic footprint from the Cheetah...

It boots fast

spolitta · Post by **spolitta** » Wed Jan 11, 2006 3:31 pm

The ad reads "Play with Fire", of course its gonna run that hot.

Erssa · Post by **Erssa** » Wed Jan 11, 2006 4:08 pm

Yeah hot and blazingly fast.

dorion · Post by **dorion** » Wed Jan 11, 2006 4:11 pm

My dad's Dell XPS is just a little bit louder than my half finised silencing project, but every now and then whe it gets this one wierd crash playing games, you are forced to turn it off. At which point the fan ramps up think a big two foot fan right next to your ear except higher pitch.

Copper · Post by **Copper** » Sat Jan 21, 2006 9:28 pm

My old undervolted/clocked shuttle Zen with 15" LCD monitor pulled ~55 watts running CPU Burn, monitor included! That thing draws some crazy power!!

Sure would be nice to play with though, provided I had some ear plugs.

nici · Post by **nici** » Sun Jan 22, 2006 6:15 am

Thats pretty damn hot and tight.. literally!

No doubt it will blaze thru games and benchmarks, expect that thing to be ontop of 3dMark lists when it launches.

4x7800GTX and Pentium 4 955 overclocked to 4.25GHZ... Here´s a silencing project for Mike