Dell showcases Dell SPX 600 Renegade

Dell showcases the Xbox 360 of PC Gaming: Dell SPX 600 Renegade

Video gaming since the last couple of months has been all about the competition between the Microsoft Xbox 360 and the Sony Playstation 3 gaming consoles. Interestingly, only one of these two consoles is currently available in the market and there is no certain launch date for the second one. Now, Dell wants to shift the focus back to the PC gaming and has launched a monster of a system for prospective hardcore gaming fans.

The interesting fact is that consumer gaming PCs is not a very hot market for Dell in particular. Most of the sales for the company come from its corporate clients. However, the company believes that the consumer PC market is going to become much bigger for them in the coming times and gaming machines are an important part of that segment.

Dell showcased their latest products and ideas at the ongoing Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. The highlight of their presentation was the awesome Dell SPX 600 Renegade gaming machine, which would be available in the market in limited numbers. Dell claims that this machine is at least four times powerful than any other machine they have ever sold in the retail market.

Dell’s chairman and founder Michael Dell said in his keynote speech: “We see the PC increasingly at the center of the digital lifestyle, and have a pretty good understanding of that market since Dell sells one of every three PCs sold in the United States. A lot of people have tried to downplay the importance of the PC, but we shipped 10 million PCs in the fourth quarter, the first time any company has accomplished that. The PC still remains supreme.”

Their SPX 600 Renegade machine uses a 4.26 GHz dual-core Extreme Edition Pentium processor and more impressively comes powered with four NVIDIA NForce graphics processors. Dell claims that this combination would result in a machine with capabilities of 5.2 teraflops of total computing power. This is good enough to place it at 70th position in the top 500 supercomputing list!

Dell has however not revealed the expected price of this machine when it would ship in the retail market.