Dell Fleshes Out XPS Lineup with XPS 630

The XPS 630 will serve as Dell's mid-range gaming PC, although a wealth of customizing options will gives builders plenty of flexibility in what it can perform.

After weeks of attempting to build mystique for its new XPS 630 gaming rig with an incredibly uninformative teaser page, Dell finally dropped the curtain on its new machine on Tuesday, revealing a mid-range gaming PC.

XPS 630 machines will come with beefy 750 watt power supplies, ATX cases with connections for the new ESA system monitoring standard, and the same LightFX external LED lighting technology that went into the XPS 720. Intel CPUs and Corsair memory will be standard, although builders will get a choice of either ATI or Nvidia cards in the graphics department. AGEIA PhysX cards will also be optional, along with Blu-ray drives and up to three factory-installed hard drives. The $1,299 specially configured XPS 630 comes with an Inte Core 2 Quad Q6600 processor, and dual NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GT 512MB graphics cards.

The machine’s $1,249 starting price will slide it comfortably between the lower-end XPS 420 and the top-of-the-line XPS 720, which start at $999 and $1,499, respectively. It will go on sale Wednesday directly through Dell.