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An overclocker's unicorn. This monster devours games with its dual Nvidia GeForce 8800 GTX graphics cards and an Intel Core 2 Extreme quad-core processor revved to 3.46 GHz. Knocking performance up to exospheric heights, the XPS 720 packs 4 gigs of overclocked memory and a drool-inducing Ageia PhysX card. Plus, the hyperefficient H2C water-cooling system keeps the CPU chilled and the noise low. Any game is toast on this machine.
WIRED: Further overclockable to a near-ridiculous 4 GHz. Front and rear LEDs can be tweaked to display cool, eerie effects. Blu-ray burner, baby!
TIRED: Oof. Eighty pounds of backbreaking hardware. Cramped interior screams "back off" to would-be modders. Yep, that price tag is in US dollars.
$7,879, dell.com
Photo: Gene Lee
