Dell XPS 420

alaTest has collected and analyzed 20 user reviews of Dell XPS 420 from Amazon.com. The average user rating for this product is 3.6/5, compared to an average user rating of 4.0/5 for other Desktops on Amazon.com. Reviewers really like the price and reliability. The design and usability also get good feedback.

Dell's XPS range has seen varied success over the years. We loved the M1330 XPS notebook but its bigger brother, the M1730, was much less well received. Moreover, its desktops have always had trouble hitting the mark, being generally a bit overpriced...

Dell may have a reputation for low-priced office computers, but the XPS 420 shows it can make powerful gaming PCs, too.

This cutting edge configuration of Dell's XPS 420 multimedia computer featured a top-of-the-line 3GHz Core 2 Extreme Quad QX9650 Intel CPU, but its other performance-enhancing components are strictly second-tier.

A powerhouse PC with quad-core performance and a huge 1TB of storage.

Despite a few gripes, we like the Dell XPS 420, another solid desktop PC from Dell.

For its price this machine isn't as strong a performer as we'd hoped, but it is still going to please gamers and editors of video or photos plus the Blu-ray drive is a big bonus.

The Dell XPS 420 is a multimedia desktop that integrates a SideShow display on top of the front panel.

A handsome PC with strong performance, the XPS 420 lacks the expandability that some high-end power desktops have.

This XPS 420 multimedia computer we tested with Intel's upcoming mainstream 2.83-GHz Penryn Q9550 processor was identical to the XPS 420 with the overclockable QX9650 CPU in every other respect except in price. At $2729, this Q9550 model is exactly...