Dell XPS 625 Phenom II fully reviewed

March 6th, 2009

HotHardware have gone the whole nine yards and then some to give you all the low-down on the Dell XPS 625 Phenom II. The system they tested was priced at US$1600 which isn’t bad for a gaming rig and they generally gave it the thumbs up despite a couple of misgivings about noise and weight.

It’s not without its faults, but Dell has put together a pretty solid package with the XPS 625, one which definitely should be worth considering when looking at a new mid-range gaming system.

Here are the specs on the Dell XPS 625 Phenom II

* AMD Phenom II X4 940 (3.0 GHz) Quad-Core Processor
* 4 GB DDR2-800 Memory (2 x 2 GB)
* AMD 790FX Based Custom Motherboard
* ATI Radeon 4850 Graphics, 512 MB, PCI Express 2.0
* Western Digital Velociraptor 150GB, 10,000 RPM
* Integrated 7.1 High Definition Audio (8-Channel Analog + 7.1 Optical S/PDIF)
* Integrated Gigabit Ethernet
* 8 x USB 2.0, 2 x Firewire 400, 1 x eSATA
* Microsoft Windows Vista Home Premium x64 Edition

The Phenom II 3.0 Ghz processors were generally only out-stripped by their 3.4 bigger brothers and Intel’s i7 920 processor on the gaming benchmarks. However in a multimedia test the Phenom II 3.0 actually snuck ahead of the Intel i7 920.

So if it’s a multimedia rig you’re after the Dell XPS 625 Phenom II may just be the answer you’re looking for and at US$1600 who are we to say no!

Dell XPS 625 Phenom II fully reviewed

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