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Rick Rizner, John Goddard
The Dimension 8300 is the second Dell PC we've seen that combines Intel's high-end, 3.2-GHz Pentium 4 CPU with a gigabyte of DDR400 SDRAM. This time around, our test configuration earned a PC WorldBench 4 score of 128--a virtual tie with the 127 score that its 8300 sibling (which we tested for our October Top 15 Desktop PCs chart) earned.
To render graphics, the 8300 uses an ATI Radeon 9800 Pro graphics board with 128MB of memory. Our gaming tests revealed solid performance, signaling that the 8300 is suitable for a variety of graphics tasks.
The ultraslim 17-inch...