The Dell Precision T1700 SFF ($994 direct) has the looks and the price of a generic business desktop PC, and that’s its hook. It is really a full professional-grade workstation with one of the latest Intel Xeon quad-core processors and Nvidia Quadro graphics. It’s a good fit for the graphics artist or engineering/scientific/medical manager that doesn’t necessarily need the highest levels of performance. Rather, it’s a perfect fit for the supervisor that needs to sign off on work, while using an ISV-certified system with the same data sets and applications that the engineers or scientists use. It has a great performance and features for the price. All this makes it our newest Editors’ Choice for single-processor workstations.
CPU
- Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E3-1246 v3 ￥365.00
RAM
- Hynix 8GB DDR3-1600 ECC UDIMM PC3L-12800E x 2 ￥260.00
Graphics Card
- AMD FirePro 2460 ￥116.00
- AMD FirePro V3800 ￥58
- NVIDIA NVS 310 ￥66
NIC
- Broadcom NetXtreme BCM5721 ￥28.00