Dell unveils 3 new workstations

BANGALORE: Dell has introduced Dell Precision 650 and 450 workstations that incorporate Intel's new 7505 chipset for Intel dual Xeon processor technology. Along with the recently launched Dell Precision 350, (with support for single processor Intel Pentium4) these products offer customers a new generation of high-performance desktop workstations.

"Our Dell Precision workstations are designed to meet the complicated performance needs of our customers in areas like computer-aided design and digital content creation," said Dell India, Managing Director for KS Vishwanath. "These three new workstations and our mobile Dell Precision M50 give customers a full range of certified and supported hardware.

The Dell Precision 650 and 450 support the advances in dual processor Xeon architecture that enable a 533 MHz front side bus, AGP 8X graphics, Hyper-Threading Technology and dual PCI expansion featuring 64-bit PCI-X. The Dell Precision 650 offers performance and scalability for workstation users who require maximum input/output device expansion, graphics and storage. The Dell Precision 450 offers similar architectural advantages to the 650, but in a chassis designed for space-constrained environments where dual processing is required, such as financial trading desks or clustering applications. The Dell Precision 350 offers maximum uniprocessor performance at a great value.

Pricing for the Dell Precision 650 begins at Rs 1,62,084. A sample configuration includes two Xeon processors at 2.8GHz, 2GB PC2100 ECC DDR memory, 3Dlabs 7110 graphics card, two 36GB3 hard disk drives with integrated SCSI RAID 0, DVD/CD-RW combo drive and a Dell UltraSharp 17-inch flat panel monitor for Rs.5,60,692.

Pricing for the Dell Precision 450 begins at Rs.1,41,232. A sample configuration includes a single Xeon processor at 2.8GHz, 1GB PC2100 ECC DDR memory, ATI Fire GLTM X1 graphics card, 120GB3 IDE hard disk drive, combo drive and a Dell UltraSharp 17-inch flat panel monitor for Rs.3,41,058

A sample Dell Precision 350 includes a Pentium 4 processor with at 2.66GHz, 512MB PC1066 ECC RDRAM, ATI Fire GLTM E1 graphics card, 40GB3 IDE hard disk drive, 48X-maximum CD-RW drive, and a Dell UltraSharp 17-inch flat panel monitor for Rs.1,83,839. All systems include three years onsite next-business-day service.