
Customers highly value the XPS Desktop's performance, ease of use, and ample RAM. Many appreciate its quiet operation and sleek design, while also praising the included graphics card and the reasonable price point. A common complaint centers around the DVD drive's reliability. The operating system also received some negative feedback.
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I already own a Dell XPS 8100 media center this is a way cooler upgrade twice the ram and new generation i core 7 processor and can handle Oculus Rift if I decide to go with it on the near future and I am sure it can handle any VR software that come out eventually, I am an avid user of Photoshop CS5 and Adobe Aftereffects, my 8100 was fine, but this PC is way better.
Posted by ren1016
Great for Photoshop work. All filters work faster. No slot for bigger memory cards. Other then that, this PC is great.
Posted by Charle
This PC more than exceeds my needs. I do not consider myself a hardcore gamer, but the games I do play run very smoothly on this PC as configured. (If you ARE a hardcore gamer, chances are you would not be considering the configuration of this tower). Currently, the installed NVIDIA GeForce GTX 750 Ti is more than enough for me. It would be easy to upgrade the graphics card in the future. The case is designed to fit a full-size graphics card and the stock power supply has dedicated power cables for graphics cards that require an external power connection. The power supply is a standard ATX power supply so it too should not be difficult to upgrade if needed. Also, the installed 16GB of RAM and 1TB hard drive is plenty for me at this point. The maximum RAM this motherboard can support is 64GB. I have noticed some reviews complaining about the hard drive load times being slow because it is not a solid state drive. I do not feel it is slow (for me, at least). It would not be difficult to install an SSD in the 2nd hard drive cage. Also, the motherboard in this PC has an M.2 socket which would accept an M.2 SSD. One important point to note is that the fan on the stock power supply does not run unless it needs to which was a cause for alarm for me before I realized this. Other fans such as the CPU fan will speed up as needed. The result is a very quiet machine when idle and performing light tasks such as word processing and web browsing. When gaming and performing resource-intensive tasks the fans can be heard but it is not annoying or distracting. All in all, this PC has plenty of horsepower for me currently and appears to be relatively easy to upgrade in the future as needed.
Posted by Kabeuse