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Rick Rizner, John Goddard
The Dimension 8300 is one of three Dell PCs we've tested recently to combine Intel's 3.2-GHz Pentium 4 CPU and a gigabyte of DDR400 SDRAM. On PC WorldBench 4 tests, this model earned a score of 126-- neck and neck with the scores served up by its siblings. A refresh of the 8300 model we tested previously, this has a bigger hard drive and includes a speedier DVD recordable drive.
For graphics tasks, the 8300 calls on its ATI Radeon 9800 Pro board with 128MB of memory. While its frame rates were a step below the fastest systems on our chart, the card has plenty of headroom for handling challenging games. Nicely complementing the ATI is Dell's thin 17-inch UltraSharp 1703FP LCD. It works with...