The Dell Precision 690 is an ultra-high-performance workstation that is designed to maximize performance and scalability in an innovative, customer-driven chassis design. The 690 offers up to two 64-bit Quad-Core Intel® Xeon® 5100 or 5300 series processors, up to 64GB of memory in four fully-buffered DIMM channels (with an optional memory riser card on the 1KW version) and a wide range of high-performance OpenGL graphics cards. The Dell Precision 690 is designed for the most business-critical, compute-intensive and graphically demanding workstation environments.
Helpful features include:
Up to 2TB of internal storage with RAID 0, 1, and optional RAID 5 support.
Flexibility and expandability: multiple Multi-Core Xeon processors and up to 64GB quad-channel memory.
Low-cost workstation ideal for many tasks that require large amounts of CPU and GPU processing power.
Dell Precision 690 Technical Specifications
Form Factor:
Desktop tower
Processors:
Up to two Quad-Core or Dual-Core Intel® Xeon® 5100/5300 series processors
Chipset:
Intel 5000X
Memory:
Up to 64GB (16 DIMM slots): 512MB1GB/2GB/4GB DDR2 533MHz & 667MHz ECC
Graphics:
Optional NVIDIA Quadro and ATI FireGL graphics cards
Drive controller:
Optional PERC5/i or PERC6/i
RAID controller:
The latest generation of storage technology is SAS (Serial Attached SCSI), which delivers up to 50% higher performance than SATA 10K.
The Dell Precision 690 supports up to five hard drives (four SAS; four SATA; or four SAS and one SATA boot) and a potential capacity of 2TB. And with RAID 0, 1, 5 and 10 options, you can configure your storage to meet your needs, whether it's for storing extremely large files, backing them up, or improving performance with data-striping.
Drive Bays:
4 Internal 3.5" hard disk drive bays
NIC:
Onboard
Hard Drives:
SATA 3.0Gb/s 7200RPM with 16MB DataBurst Cache up to 500GB
SATA 3.0Gb/s 7200RPM with 8MB DataBurst Cache up to 250GB
SATA 10K RPM with 16MB DataBurst Cache up to 160GB
The Dell Precision 690 is an ultra-high-performance workstation that is designed to maximize performance and scalability in an innovative, customer-driven chassis design. The 690 offers up to two 64-bit Quad-Core Intel® Xeon® 5100 or 5300 series processors, up to 64GB of memory in four fully-buffered DIMM channels (with an optional memory riser card on the 1KW version) and a wide range of high-performance OpenGL graphics cards. The Dell Precision 690 is designed for the most business-critical, compute-intensive and graphically demanding workstation environments.
