Removing it requires pushing a thumb depression, which pops out a handle which you then pull upward to release the panel. The left side panel is easily removed for access to the interior. The rubber feet on the right side panel mean the workstation can be placed on its side, an orientation not many towers support.
Combined with this workstation's overall size (16.5 by 7 by 20.4 inches), it's no small feat to move, so the handles are a godsend. The review unit tipped the scales at a portly 37.4 pounds, which is no surprise considering the tower is predominantly made of steel. There's a sturdy metal carry handle on the top edge and a matching one at the rear. The grated, two-tiered front makes it look more like an enterprise server… The Precision 5820's industrious appearance will have no one mistaking it for a home or gaming PC. Judging by my tinkering with Dell's endless configuration options, you should budget closer to $2,000 for a more balanced configuration with a six-core CPU and at least 16GB of memory, and closer to $3,000 with a decent GPU pick. The $969 starting loadout's low-clocked Xeon W-2102 processor (which doesn't support Turbo Boost or Hyper-Threading), scanty 8GB of RAM, and slow 500GB hard drive won't show its best colors, or even best the Precision 3630. It's ironic that the Precision 5820 struggles when it comes to value at its entry-level pricing. Dell backs it with a standard three-year on-site warranty extendable to five years. All told, the price of our Precision 5820 is justifiable for its as-tested build.
This kind of hardware means the Precision has no problem earning independent software vendor (ISV) certifications that guarantee proper performance with supported professional apps.ĭoing a little comparison shopping, I configured a comparable Lenovo ThinkStation P520 for a nearly identical $4,524 and an HP Z4 Tower for a somewhat steeper $5,321. The GPU is the midrange Nvidia Quadro RTX 4000 with 8GB of GDDR6 display memory.
In addition to the Xeon W-2145 chip, it came with a 512GB PCIe solid-state drive containing Windows 10 Pro for Workstations a secondary 8TB, 3.5-inch hard drive and 32GB of quad-channel DDR4-2666 ECC memory (arranged in four 8GB DIMMs). For this review, though, we asked the company to keep our review unit under $5,000, a reasonable price point for a mainstream workstation. The fact that Dell offers the Precision 5820 with up to 68TB (with a T) of total storage and 256GB of RAM should be enough to tell you this is a serious machine. The sky is the limit with this tier of workstation, more so than with any consumer-grade desktop. The Xeon W-2145 in our test unit has only eight cores and 16 threads, but it has higher base (3.7GHz) and turbo (4.5GHz) clock speeds that should make it more responsive for everyday tasks than higher-core-count chips with lower operating speeds. But if one CPU is enough for your workflow, look no further than the Precision 5820, which offers up to the 18-core, 36-thread Xeon W-2195 chip. It shares many design elements with the even more ferocious Precision 7820 and Precision 7920, both of which offer two processors. The 5820 is a larger full-tower with much greater expansion capability and server-grade features that I'll get into shortly.
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