dell is very very competitive in this space. almost all small companies i have worked for use one of these interfacing with a dedicated server for their business. they work very well, and what i have herd is that they have great customer service( for business contacts). these will sell well.
On paper it should but the Optane DC Persistent Memory is primarily focused at the data center market, I am not sure using it for a workstation would do anything but drive up the cost and possibly dial back the performance on most tasks.
I didn't see in Optane DC Persitent memory when I play around with configuration that end up around $56000 with no storage - but only 1.5T of memory - not sure how to get 3T memory. I found it funny to offer Chromebooks as options on it
Any workstation software knows Optane DC Persistent memory? The decreased performance compared to DRAM (Optane is a tenth of the performance of DRAM) means any software that does use it as RAM will take a huge drop in speed. Optane has a lot of advantages, but trying to use it as RAM is a losing proposition.
Exactly, it's not RAM. It's a new class that's inbetween traditional storage and RAM and it offers NVDIMM/NVRAM capabilities without a battery. Great for accelerating storage as additional cache and other uses.
Poor choice to put the front I/O panel only left-facing. The illustrative photos show the tower on the left side of the desk, making those ports rather awkward to use.
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MadEyeMoody - Monday, April 8, 2019 - link
>> "and up to 120/96 GB of storage space enabled by ten 3.5-inch hard drives".I believe this needs to be corrected to 120/96 TB?
Calin - Tuesday, April 9, 2019 - link
Like in Amish Paradise,Party like it's 1699 :)
Hard drive space like it's 1999 (well, the 1999 had the 3GB sizes at the consumer top of the range)
austinsguitar - Monday, April 8, 2019 - link
dell is very very competitive in this space. almost all small companies i have worked for use one of these interfacing with a dedicated server for their business. they work very well, and what i have herd is that they have great customer service( for business contacts). these will sell well.Lakados - Monday, April 8, 2019 - link
Almost all my servers and work stations are Dell, they have great business support and few problems.twtech - Monday, April 8, 2019 - link
HP is fairly popular as well.piroroadkill - Tuesday, April 9, 2019 - link
HP is popular without deserving it. I could say many things about their support and product quality, but I'll refrain.piroroadkill - Tuesday, April 9, 2019 - link
Oh, I'm primarily referring to Hewlett Packard Enterprise, HPE, not HPToadster - Monday, April 8, 2019 - link
any options for Intel Optane DC Persistent Memory in this platform?Lakados - Monday, April 8, 2019 - link
On paper it should but the Optane DC Persistent Memory is primarily focused at the data center market, I am not sure using it for a workstation would do anything but drive up the cost and possibly dial back the performance on most tasks.Toadster - Monday, April 8, 2019 - link
depending on if you have low latency I/O requirementsHStewart - Tuesday, April 9, 2019 - link
I didn't see in Optane DC Persitent memory when I play around with configuration that end up around $56000 with no storage - but only 1.5T of memory - not sure how to get 3T memory. I found it funny to offer Chromebooks as options on ithttps://www.dell.com/en-us/work/shop/workstations-...
jordanclock - Tuesday, April 9, 2019 - link
3TB requires you to select a dual CPU option. I confirmed it is there when selecting a dual CPU Platinum option.HStewart - Tuesday, April 9, 2019 - link
I must have miss when doing it.Calin - Tuesday, April 9, 2019 - link
Any workstation software knows Optane DC Persistent memory? The decreased performance compared to DRAM (Optane is a tenth of the performance of DRAM) means any software that does use it as RAM will take a huge drop in speed.Optane has a lot of advantages, but trying to use it as RAM is a losing proposition.
HiWay - Tuesday, April 9, 2019 - link
Exactly, it's not RAM. It's a new class that's inbetween traditional storage and RAM and it offers NVDIMM/NVRAM capabilities without a battery. Great for accelerating storage as additional cache and other uses.jabber - Monday, April 8, 2019 - link
I look forward to picking one up for $200 in a few years. I love my vintage Dell workstations.golemB - Monday, April 8, 2019 - link
Poor choice to put the front I/O panel only left-facing. The illustrative photos show the tower on the left side of the desk, making those ports rather awkward to use.Lord of the Bored - Monday, April 8, 2019 - link
Aren't the ports forward-facing? That's what I see in the photos, ports on the black stripe down the center of the case.piroroadkill - Tuesday, April 9, 2019 - link
They're clearly front facing.twtech - Monday, April 8, 2019 - link
If they just announced these as a new product, it will probably be 7830/7930 branded when they come out. The 7x20s have been out since 2017.duploxxx - Tuesday, April 9, 2019 - link
poor poor OEM.... following like lemmings.... none brave enough to trash the intel workstation world with existing and future threadripper....A WS single socket 64cores with more PCI-e lanes, half the power consumption vs a dual socket Intel refresh....
its all about marketing and budgets... Intel sponsering OEM r&d like crazy these days to keep there CPU on the list
duploxxx - Tuesday, April 9, 2019 - link
on top of that... up to 3 GPU, which is awesome.... but how to divide 3 GPU on 2 sockets.... yep a latency nightmarejordanclock - Tuesday, April 9, 2019 - link
Dude. Just use a period or comma. Ellipses aren't meant to be used like that. It's like you have the worst last dying words ever.HiWay - Tuesday, April 9, 2019 - link
Most likely for compute, not actual graphical rendering across dual CPU.beaker7 - Tuesday, April 9, 2019 - link
64 core single socket doesn't exist.flyingpants265 - Tuesday, April 9, 2019 - link
But no RGB lighting??Lord of the Bored - Tuesday, April 9, 2019 - link
Truly a missed chance to stand out in the workstatien market.Adam086 - Tuesday, April 9, 2019 - link
The specs check out, but can it run minesweeper?LastSilmaril - Friday, April 26, 2019 - link
I don't see any Cascade Lake CPU options within Dell Precision 7920 offerings on Dell web pages so far. Any reference to order and ship support?
https://www.dell.com/koa/search?q=Precision%207920...