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WHAT'S HOT: Looking at the latest refresh of Dell's high-end Dimension desktop line, you'd be hard pressed to notice any outward differences--and that's a good thing, because the system retains such convenient features as an easy-open case, tool-less access to hard drive cages and PCI slots, and handy latches and tabs that let you swap, service, or upgrade components easily.
The 8300's components, though, are a different story. This is one of the first systems out of the gate to team Intel's 3-GHz Pentium 4 CPU with 1GB of DDR400 SDRAM. The new 875P chip set gives Pentium 4 desktops an 800-MHz frontside bus and dual-channel DDR-400 SDRAM main memory, designed in part to boost overall system performance. Our test configuration earned a PC WorldBench 4 score of 126, which is 3 points faster than its predecessor managed with a 3.06-GHz Pentium 4...