Dell precision T5500
Update: Read the full Dell Precision T5500 review here.
Quick one here. I ordered a Dell Precision T5500 Workstation on 14th August 2009. Still waiting for it to arrive. Here are the specs in short.
- Dual Quad Core Intel (R) Xeon (R) Processors E5520 2.26GHz,8M L3, turbo, 5.8GT/s QP
- Dual 250GB SATA (7200RPM) Hard Disk Drive Raid 0
- Dual 512MB PCIe x16 nVidia Quadro FX580
- 6GB (6×1GB) DDR3 SDRAM Memory, 1066MHz,ECC
- Dual Dell(TM) 2408WFP UltraSharp(TM)24″ Widescreen Flat Panel LCD Monitor(Analog&DVI)
- Rest is the usual ethernet/mouse/keyboard and the likes.
Apparently you could make out two workstations out of these parts. I hate to work any longer on my Precision M90 mobile workstation which has faithfully accompanied me as my first and primary computer for over three years now (yes I never owned a computer before that). Most of my time is spent Googling Dell Precision T5500 reviews or making calls to BlueDart trying to track the shipment. The delivery is already overdue and thus my disinterest in work for the last few days. I love to hear your comments on how you see it pitched against the Mac Pro and other workstations in the segment.
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Wow…$$$ over 5K? You didn’t get the minimum processors to run the 1333MHz memory though, so it might be cheaper.
Dell doesn’t tell you, but you need a 6.xGT/s CPU to run 1333, otherwise you’ll be limited to 1033MHz. If you had gotten a 4.xGT/s CPU, those are limited to 800MHz memory! Yuck!.
I just got a T610 — the PowerEdge which has similar specs — allows a bit more memory, but no graphics card. Dual CPU, allows more memory though . A 2nd CPU would have cost me $1200 extra.
I stayed with the single 4-core and beefed it up myself with 2 15K (70G) SAS drives, and 6 SATA drives. With 12GB memory (a $325 purchase outside of Dell) of 1333MHz memory (used 4GB chips), and 2 power-supplies, it runs (at idle) about 167 watts. Under load, that will climb to about 270-280 (only loading the CPU — dunno about disks, but they are all spinning).
Next to it is a Dell Precision 610 — with 2 Core Duo’s (3 year old tech) — it only has 2 10K SAS drives but also has a graphics card. At idle, it sucks about 300-400, and under load easily goes over 600 (it has a 1KW PS). Talk about BIG difference.
The newer T610 only uses a 570W PS — but it had a redundancy option — so it can go up to twice
that since it actually splits the load between them. An 870W PS is optional (which can also be setup redundantly w/another 870)…. I’m not sure under what circumstances you would need
870 — but I only have 1 CPU -and about … 1/8th the possibly memory expansion (they can take up to 8GB chips, and the servers have 2 banks of 3 chipslots each).
Very weird to offer only 3 chip slots/cpu, I thought — at least server has 2 channels of 3 slots ea/cpu, BUT until recently, if you populated the 2nd channel, the BIOS slowed down the memory to a max of 1033…. (this was a separate issue from the GT/s speed limiting the memory speed).
I’m using suse linux on it…only yesturday got SW from Dell to expand my RAID…(SuSE is 2nd tier to Redhat…:-( ).
Good luck…would love to get one, but with that server…the WS is out of my budget for some time
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I would like to upgrade the memory on my Dell Precision 380 workstation. It now has 2 gig but can hold as much as 8 gig.
How much did it cost to you ?
Getting it from US ??
Vasu — who are you speaking to?
Original writer (w/T5500), me or the guy w/the Precis380?)…
Vasu: Costed me 203000/- INR with dual 2408WFP monitor included. It comes from Chennai.
custom made yourself could save you money.
I’ve often heard people say what comblue said, but when I’ve priced parts, I’ve never found it to be true. However, it depends on how much profit the big corp is taking and Dell’s prices have been going up lately.
But face it — you can’t buy volumes of 10K or 100K on chips — and some chips only get cheap in volume (CPU’s especially).
Macs are great machines and you won’t go wrong buying one. But you pay a price premium for them. And IBM Clone computers can match them now in terms of hardware. So if you’re going to pay that premium, then you’re going to be paying it for software one way or another.
I do not know what to say about Dell??
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Dell Precision T5500 is great desktop computer. Really amazing with good quality video and very strong processor. This workstation is one of my favourite at all, because the productivity is great and can be comprated with highest quality computers.
How much Michael Dell would be making in a year?