The Dell logo in the faceplate turns 90* also. Monitors were intended to sit on top of them. That's why these things have the double wall construction. It must be remove to put drives in/out sideways, and them put back to lock them.

There is a Blue plastic D ring at the top of the case that removes a black blade that locks the drives in/out. The T3500 can do this but it's not in the manual. Some of them have 2x 5.25, and 2x 3.5 slots. In stall the drives sideways, and install the Desktop plastic drive bezel. All that's required is remove the 5.25,and 3.5 drives.

The high end CPUs are 1333 but only if running 1 module per channel.Īnother thing that may be of interest is that just about all of the mid tower size Dell workstations can be run in Desktop orientation. In the LGA1366 series RAM speed is not only determined by the CPU selected, but also by how many RAM slots are used. I came across a couple of workstation factoids I thought I would share here. I've got a few older optiplex's around too but they aren't exciting, i get some good hand me downs though and really like the build quality of the dells. hoping to just have it setup with linux mint or as a fun box to play around with, not sure yet. The BIST can be used to isolate and troubleshoot power failures throughout the system. Many desktops are now configured with a Built-In Self-Test (BIST) for the power supply. currently a core2duo of 2.4ghz or so running with 8 gb of ram. Watch this introductory guide for troubleshooting and isolating power issues in newer Optiplex and Precision Workstation desktop systems. Older precision 390 that i was trying to get a sticker modded e5420 xeon to work in it. T3500 with one xeon x5675 and 12gb of ram and quadro 2000 gpu, was a test box just to play around with cpu mining a few months s going to be repurposed as my projector pc upstairs. T3610 - also a quad xeon ~3.1ghz with a k420 quadro and will be my wifes main workstation its going to be my main workstation with cpu upgrade sometime when the prices come down for 2011v3. T5810 - lower end quad core xeon 2.8ghz (can't remember the model will fill in later) and 32gb of ram and a k2200 4gb gpu, 512gb ssd from samsung. running freenas 11.1 and serves are my nas and ubiquity controller for my AP The other t7500 has a single x5675 and 24gb of ram along with 4 1tb wd hard drives. right now its my plex server and does some light in home streaming until i get another workstation up. Two t7500 - one is a dual x5675 xeon with 36gb of ram, running quadro 4000 gpu still and windows 10. I'll throw my hat in here, i've got several and most are all in use for some purpose

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