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Xi Xi MTower IGE-Stacker

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Pros
Superior performance
Inexpensive for a Gaming PC
Cons
No media card reader
No legacy ports

Performance: Superior: 100
Features: Poor: 59
Design: Good: 77

Find out how these scores, and their relative weights, combine to produce the PC World Rating.

Performance
Adobe Photoshop CS2	282
Autodesk 3ds max 8.0 SP-3 DirectX	305
Autodesk 3ds max 8.0 SP-3 Rendering	486
Firefox 2	177
Microsoft Office 2003 with SP-1	318
Microsoft Windows Media Encoder 9.0	173
Nero 7 Ultra Edition	323
Overall Graphics Score	Superior
Roxio VideoWave Movie Creator 1.5	182
Winzip Computing WinZip 10.0	180
WorldBench 6 Score	128
WorldBench 6 Word Score	Superior

WorldBench 6 Tests
Multitasking	215

What You Should Know about the Xi MTower IGE-Stacker

Good Amount of RAM for Running Multiple Apps at Once

This computer includes between 1GB and 3GB of RAM, our recommended level for a new PC. This much memory lets you run any modern operating system and comfortably work with quite a few applications open. The more installed memory your PC has, the more programs you can run smoothly at once, and the better the system will perform. Upgrading memory in a desktop after you purchase the PC is a breeze, but usually it's worthwhile to buy the amount of memory you want preinstalled with the system.

To use more than 4GB of memory on your PC, you need the 64-bit version of Windows XP or Windows Vista. The PCs that you see equipped with 3GB of memory (instead of 4GB) tend to use the 32-bit versions of Windows that are limited to 4GB of addressable memory, the top portion of which is addressed by the various hardware devices on the system.