Our review configuration is on the quirky side (as they often are), but I do want to draw your attention to the Intel Xeon E3-1280 v2. (192 CUDA cores, 625MHz/1250MHz/2.6GHz core/shaders/memory, 128-bit memory bus)Ģx Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 500GB 7200RPM SATA 6Gbps HDD in Striped RAID You can get pretty close to it with their $1,679 top-end preconfigured machine, but our system does have some notable differences. While the improvements from Sandy Bridge were underwhelming for enthusiasts and incremental for desktop-using consumers, on the enterprise side the combination of reduced power and thermal envelopes and increased IPC make Ivy Bridge a much, much better value proposition.ĭell outfitted our review system pretty close to as fast as it can get we have the fastest video card option, the second fastest CPU option, and middle-of-the-road storage and memory options. In addition to being our first look at Dell's new entry level workstation, this is also our first look at Intel's new Ivy Bridge based Xeons. We had a chance to check out their T3600 this year and found it to be a demonstratively superior offering to the competing HP Z420, and today we have the T1650, a model that updates the lackluster T1600 with a new chassis and some new hardware.
While HP has been content to recycle last year's models, Dell has made substantial strides in improving their desktop workstation offerings across the board. This year has seen a revitalized Dell aggressively attacking HP on the enterprise workstation front.
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