Dell Precision T5500 Technical Manual

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Dell Precision ™ T5500/T7500 Tower Workstations Technical GuideP L E A S E S E E I M P O R T A N T I N F O R M A T I O N O N P A G E 3 7P A G E 2 O F 3 7Dell Precision™ WorkstationsDell Precision workstations have been the world’s leading workstation brand for the last nineyears 1 and continue to deliver value to customers by combining relevant new technologies andfocusing on the core values of the product family. These are:• PerformanceProviding relevant technologies design to drive applications as fast as possible• Application FocusWorking closely with the key software partners to ensure reliability and performancethrough certification and excellent support.• ScalabilityDesigning systems that can scale with your application needs and company’s needs.• Managed for BusinessBuilding our solutions around industry standards and helping simplify your IT• Optimized solutionsRecognizing the wide range of application areas for workstations and offering theflexibility in our systems to help optimize them to suit our customers’ requirementsDell partners with strategic Independent Software Vendors (ISVs) to certify system andapplication compatibility so that applications can run gracefully on Dell Precision workstations.Through rigorous testing, Dell also targets excellent compatibility and optimized performance indemanding work environments such as Computer Aided Design (CAD), engineering, andarchitecture, making the Dell Precision range a perfect platform for demanding workstationusers.Dell Precision Tower WorkstationsDell Precision offers a broad range of tower workstations as part of the overall family. Such abroad range helps provide a wide choice ranging from ISV certified mainstream systems tohighly scalable flagship systems for the most demanding applications. The highly configurablechassis options, including the T7500 that can be configured in over a billion different ways,provide a platform, trusted by many, to run key applications gracefully.These new tower workstations are built around the latest Intel® Xeon® architecture and offerbenefits of the Intel Nehalem technology including support for ECC memory and Direct CacheAccess (DCA), neither of which are typically found in standard business desktop systems. ECCmemory and DCA are not available with Intel® Core™ i7 processors and was a significantfactor in the choice of technologies for the latest range of tower workstations. The newarchitecture results in low latency between memory and processor and helps provide excellentoverall workstation-class application performance and stability.