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Polywell Poly X4800-Extreme

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Pros
Blazing performance
Lots of rear panel ports
Cons
Not all that stylish

Performance: Superior: 90
Features: Superior: 91
Design: Very Good: 83

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

Performance
Adobe Photoshop CS2	270
Autodesk 3ds max 8.0 SP-3 DirectX	327
Autodesk 3ds max 8.0 SP-3 Rendering	277
Doom 3 with AA, 1024 by 768, 32-Bit	208.3
Doom 3 with AA, 1280 by 1024, 32-Bit	207.73
Doom 3, 1024 by 768, 32-Bit	198.57
Doom 3, 1280 by 1024, 32-Bit	199.3
Enemy Territory Quake Wars High 1024x768	120.53
Enemy Territory Quake Wars High 1680x1050	115.03
Enemy Territory Quake Wars High 1920x1200	108.83
Enemy Territory Quake Wars High 2560x1600	77.73
Enemy Territory Quake Wars Normal 1024x768	121.4
Enemy Territory Quake Wars Normal 1680x1050	116.9
Enemy Territory Quake Wars Normal 1920x1200	111.93
Enemy Territory Quake Wars Normal 2560x1600	80.87
Far Cry with AA, 1024 by 768, 32-Bit	285.44
Far Cry with AA, 1280 by 1024, 32-Bit	266.55
Far Cry, 1024 by 768, 32-Bit	286.93
Far Cry, 1280 by 1024, 32-Bit	266.69
Firefox 2	182
Microsoft Office 2003 with SP-1	319
Microsoft Windows Media Encoder 9.0	174
Nero 7 Ultra Edition	212
Overall Graphics Score	Very Good
Roxio VideoWave Movie Creator 1.5	181
Unreal Tournament 3 Highest 1024x768	117.55
Unreal Tournament 3 Highest 1680x1050	112
Unreal Tournament 3 Highest 1920x1200	108.68
Unreal Tournament 3 Highest 2560x1600	89.67
Unreal Tournament 3 Medium 1024x768	171.46
Unreal Tournament 3 Medium 1680x1050	147.77
Unreal Tournament 3 Medium 2560x1600	105.56
Unreal Tournament 3 Medium1920x1200	137.56
Winzip Computing WinZip 10.0	163
WorldBench 6 Score	141
WorldBench 6 Word Score	Superior

WorldBench 6 Tests
Multitasking	200

What You Should Know about the Poly X4800-Extreme

Large Amount of RAM Produces Blazing Performance

Simply put, this computer is likely to offer blazing performance. The large amount of RAM it ships with is more than enough to handle most memory-hungry applications and large files, and as a result the PC won't constantly swap memory to its hard drive.

The more installed memory your PC has, the more applications you can run smoothly at once, and the better the system will perform. Upgrading memory in a desktop after you purchase the PC is simple, 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 either Windows XP 64-Bit Edition (limited to 128GB) or a 64-bit version of Windows Vista (which can handle 128GB and beyond).