My brother is awesome and not only because he buys me the best geeky birthday present. For my birthday this year, he bought me a new DELL XPS desktop with the latest Intel Core i7 processor. The Core i7 is a quad-core processor with hyper-threading that appear as 8 separate processors to the operating system, giving the machine some serious processing horsepower.
My configuration is the Intel Core i7-920 processor(8MB L3 Cache 2.66GHz), 6GB of RAM (DDR3 SDRAM at 1067MHz), ATI RADEON HD4670 512MB video card and Serial ATA II RAID 0 With Dual640GB Hard Drives for a total of 1.2 TB onboard. The machine also came with combo Blu-Ray/DVD/CD reader and burner along with 64-bit Vista. Here are the complete tech specs for the geeks out there.
| Qty | Item Number | Description |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | 224-3607 | Studio XPS 435MT |
| 1 | 311-9770 | Intel Core i7-920 processor(8MB L3 Cache 2.66GHz) |
| 1 | 311-9800 | 6GB DDR3 SDRAM at 1067MHz |
| 1 | 310-9731 | Keyboard included in Dell Bluetooth Package |
| 1 | 320-7771 | ATI RADEON HD4670 512MB |
| 1 | 341-8397 | Serial ATA II RAID 0 With Dual640GB Hard Drives |
| 1 | 421-0084 | Microsoft Windows Vista SP1 Home Premium 64-Bit |
| 1 | 310-1966 | Mouse included with Keyboard purchase |
| 1 | 430-3347 | Integrated 10/1000 Ethernet |
| 1 | 313-7184 | Blu-Ray, DVD+R/RW, CD-RW Drive |
| 1 | 313-7186 | Integrated 7.1 Channel Audio |
| 1 | 310-5408 | Free Recycling Kit |
| 1 | 310-9562 | Bluetooth Keyboard and Mouse |
| 1 | 341-8296 | Dell 19 in 1 Media Reader withBluetooth 2.0 |
Here are some screenshots from the computer with more geeky goodness 🙂
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@James $1600.00
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Wow, that is one heck of a present. I don't get anything from my brothers.
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You are a lucky guy to have a brother like yours. I hope you can make that pc sing and dance. Happy Birthday to you Vinny! I hope you have a great day!
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Hi Lisa and thank you very much for your birthday wishes. I was hoping to see you in person when I was in Miami but I couldn't stay long 🙂 I'm sure you guys must be busy with baseball season in full swing. Hope all is well and thanks again.
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What a Machine, the perfect complement will Be Debian GNU/Linux inside!!!
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what a machine! i wish something like that too to test vista. in the meantime i use ubuntu with my dell vostro 1400 XD
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