Dell Studio XPS 9100 arrives with six cores, little fanfare

AMD had its turn inside the high-end Dell desktop spotlight, but it surely\’s time for one more Intel beast, as the company\’s quietly upgraded its tower lineup to support Intel\’s consumer-grade champion chip, the 3.33GHz Core i7-980X. While the hot Studio XPS 9100 looks just a similar as its predecessor on the skin and sports an identical basic options and ports, internally there\’s a 525W power supply with enough juice for a Radeon HD 5970 2GB graphics card (a $580 option) and slots for up to 24GB of DDR3 memory. You won\’t be getting any of this pixel-pushing goodness on the $950 base model, after all, which has only a (respectable) quad-core 2.66GHz Core i7-920 and an Nvidia GeForce G310 512MB, but the machine seems like it might probably hold its own with low-end Alienware cousins when you get into $2,000+ territory. Call us crazy, but we expect there\’s a configurator session together with your name on it.

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