Dell Precision 330.(Hardware Review)(Evaluation)

Publication: CADalyst

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Dell considers its Precision Workstation 330 an entry-level workstation designed with the Pentium 4 processor in mind. Like other systems in the Dell Precision series, this is an extremely well-engineered and ruggedly built system that provides the same manageability support offered by the Dell corporate systems: the OptiPlex, Latitude, and PowerEdge series. We reviewed the Minitower configuration with 256MB of RDRAM.

At the heart of the Precision 330 is a 1.5GHz Pentium 4 processor supported by an AGP Pro50 43 video slot. On this system, the slot was filled by the FireGL 2 graphics card. On the test bench, the Precision 330 produced some excellent scores for the MAXBench series, although the AutoCAD C99...

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