The superior video card in the XPS 8700 enabled it to deliver much better gaming performance than the HP Envy. But that SSD is the only storage the Envy has, which isn’t optimal for real-world use.ĭell’s XPS 8700 Special Edition falls just short of HP’s Envy 700-030qe in our Desktop WorldBench 8.1 suite, because the HP has an SSD. The Envy has the same processor as the XPS 8700, but its dedicated SSD boosted its Desktop WorldBench 8.1 score to 352, even though it has less main memory (12GB of DDR3/1600) and a lesser video card (an Nvidia GeForce GTX 645). That makes it more than three times faster than our baseline system, Acer’s all-in-one Aspire A5600U-UB13, and slightly slower than HP’s Envy 700-030qe. The XPS 8700 held its own in our benchmarks, delivering a respectable Desktop WorldBench 8.1 score of 337. ROBERT CARDIN The XPS 8700 Special Edition’s motherboard has just one PCIe x16 expansion slot-no SLI for you!
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