Hardware company Dell has introduced two server products that it claims are best of class.
It has introduced the Precision T1700 tower workstation which it is says is the smallest and lightest compared to the competition. The Intel based machines come with Nvidia or AMD graphics and has PCI x16 Gen 3 slots. The T1700 SFF (small form factor) also has two front USB 3.0 ports.
In addition, Dell announced upgrades to its rack family – the Precision R6710 is suitable for datacenters. It can support up to four single wide graphics card and can also support Nvidia Grid for virtualized graphics.
The R760 has 16DIMM slots, a 6GB/s LSI2308 SATA/SAS controller and uses dual Intel E5-2687W 160 watt eight core processors.
The R7610 workstation starts at $2,179, but Dell has still to price up the two T1700 workstations, available from June 4.
