Dell has begun offering its new gaming-oriented PC design to European buyers, branding the machine the XPS 700 and equipping it with a top-end Pentium Extreme Edition processor and a pair of Nvidia GeForce 7900 GS SLI graphics cards.

The £1,375 baseline system's a more basic 3GHz Pentium D 930; 1GB of 533MHz DDR 2; a 7,200rpm, 250GB hard disk; DVD±R/RW optical drive; and the two GeForce 7900 GS cards.

Buyers can bump up the spec to include Ageia's PhysX card, up the HDD capacity to 1TB - using two 512GB drives - boost the memory to 2GB of 667MHz DDR 2, and add a 3.73GHz Pentium Extreme Edition 965 CPU, a second optical drive (DVD-ROM), a 13-in-1 memory card reader and a Creative X-Fi sound card, taking the price to £3,354. ®

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