While these are generally standard add-ons in the performance PC category, we nevertheless appreciate that Dell didn’t try to cannibalize features in order to keep its costs down. You’ll still be able to crank the next-generation titles you throw at the XPS 8300, but its benchmarking results are among the lower scores of all the performance PCs we’ve tested over the past year.Ī two-terabyte hard drive is an excellent addition for such an inexpensively priced desktop, as is Dell’s inclusion of a Blu-ray combo drive.
The system’s aging AMD Radeon HD 5870 GPU is a very good one, but its average recorded frame rate of 120.7 on Unreal Tournament 3 (at 2560 by 2100 resolution, high quality) is hardly a category-leading mark. The only real scuff mark on the XPS’s benchmarks comes from our graphics tests. One contender: The $1700 Micro Express MicroFlex 26B earned a 202 on our WorldBench suite, though it’s not as feature-filled.
It earned a score of 162 - you’d be hard pressed to find any rival in the XPS 8300’s price range coming close, though systems based on overclocked Sandy Bridge processors do post higher scores (with higher prices to match). Accompanied by eight gigabytes of DDR3-1333 memory, the Sandy Bridge (second-generation Core) CPU helps the XPS 8300 make short work of our WorldBench 6 tests.
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