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We went looking for the best off-the-shelf "burn, baby, burn" system we could find - the kind we would buy if money were no object. We wanted performance and lots of it. And we found it, at times in some unlikely places. We looked for machines that cut no corners, make no trade-offs, and hit on all cylinders from the nanosecond you fire it up. Many showed up to play, but only a select few put the right components in the box and integrated those parts into a seamless unit. Not an easy task, given the drastic changes that have unfolded over the past year in the world of computer-gaming hardware.

So hold onto your hat: We're set to tell you all about the folks who did - and didn't - put together all the pieces of the silicon puzzle for this year's magnum opus.

How We Tested Dell Dimension XPS D300