![]() ![]() It makes me wish the other 2TB of storage was also solid state, to make this truly a beast capable of housing many games ready to play at their best, but it serves as a good sized media drive nonetheless. I noticed loading times while playing games like Control and Flight Simulator were much faster than what I was used to on my older machine, which still runs off an older SSD for my most played games and OS and a HDD for everything else. It’s also large enough that installing a few of your favourite games shouldn’t be too big of a deal. The boot drive is a 1TB SSD, so start up times are lickety split. I suppose the good news there is that you can. The one exception was the McAfee software which I swear I ticked no to during installation and still ended up having to manually uninstall it. The set up was very easy due to the prebuilt nature and while there are some pre-installed programs, it’s fairly limited to what you’d want anyway. ![]() When it comes to actually using this PC, it’s a dream. The Dell XPS Desktop scored a respectable 4,877 points in the multi-core test in Cinebench and consistently sat exactly where you’d expect to find it: between gaming PC and high-end gaming PC according to various 3D Mark benchmarking tests. At least it's dual-channel memory, although be sure to select a twin-stick configuration at checkout (at no extra cost) as some default to only a single stick. The 10th Gen Intel Core i7 10700K processor and Nvidia GeForce RTX 2070 Super are great performing parts but not crazy overkill, and the RAM is a little lacking at only 16GB DDR4-at this price you'd perhaps expect 32GB. While pretty impressive for its size, this is by no means the beefiest PC around. It’s a PC that almost makes you long for the LANs of old, before we weren’t allowed in a closed room with more than two other people. There’s a good array of ports on the front, including USB Type-C and an SD Card reader, and plenty more on the back. Then, to chill out, I’ve carted it out to the TV in the lounge and plugged it in there. When working I’ve had it on my desk and barely noticed it. It’s also quite light, and the form factor has meant I’ve happily physically moved this PC around as needed. It’s even a little slimmer than my usual desktop measuring just 169mm wide. At just under 370mm tall and a smidge over 300mm deep, I can’t even see the case from behind my monitor. The first thing I noticed about the XPS Desktop out of the box was how small it is. Warranty: One year in-home hardware service Storage: 1TB M.2 PCIe NVME SSD + 2TB SATA 7200RPM HDD CPU: 10th Gen Intel Core i7 10700K processor ![]()
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