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New Dell Precision Workstations Shatter Performance Metrics

03 April , 09:00 AM

Anyone who uses high-end workstations knows Dell Precision, especially if you are in engineering, media, entertainment, biosciences, exploration, economic modeling and risk analysis.  After all, Dell has been the world’s No. 1 workstation supplier for the last nine years.  But as one of the first workstation lines to ship with Intel® Xeon® 5500 “Nehalem,” the Dell Precision T5500 and T7500 can deliver up to 90 percent better multi-threaded digital content creation application performance versus previous generation systems.  Check out the information on the Dell Precision T7500, T5500 and T3500 tower workstations.  And  read the news here.

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chris_mosher
16 Apr 2009 10:35 AM

The T3500 makes absolutely no sense. I can't think of ANY single reason why Dell is putting Xeon processors in the T3500. All previous models in this range, Precision 380, 390, T3400, all used Intel desktop processors instead of Xeon.

Now this wouldn't be a big deal, BUT performance-for-dollar, the desktop versions of these Xeon processors are a MUCH better value. The Core i7 920 is basically the same thing as the Xeon X5550, and costs about $300 compared to the $1000 Xeon X5550, each having 4 cores at 2.66Ghz.

What does this mean? It means you have to pay a $1400 upgrade cost on top the of $999 T3500 to get the SAME processor that comes standard in the $799 Dell Studio XPS 435MT. 

This stupid idea by Dell makes the T3500 a dumb buy and a lousy value for your money.