The Dell Precision™ 390 workstation delivers incredible performance and scalability at a great price, all in a flexible, customer-driven chassis design. The 390 offers a smart blend of workstation technologies, including dual-core and quad-core processors, Genuine Windows® XP Professional, up to 8GB of memory, a range of 2D to 3D OpenGL graphics cards and performance hard drives. With its exceptional balance of price and performance, the Dell Precision 390 is designed to meet the needs of budget-conscious workstation professionals.
Multi-Core Intel Xeon Processors
The Dell Precision 490 is equipped with up to two Dual or Quad-Core Intel Xeon 5100 and 5300 series 64-bit processors for a total of up to eight execution cores in two sockets. Multi-Core Intel Xeon processors can deliver a substantial performance increase over Intel single-core processors for multi-threaded applications, multi-tasking environments or very demanding single-threaded applications. The new Intel Xeon 5100 and 5300 series features a new architecture - Intel® Core™ micro-architecture - with a shorter pipeline, lower clock speeds and higher front side bus speeds designed to deliver higher performance levels than previous generation Intel Xeon processors. Multi-core processors allow your system to split tasks between separate processor cores so that they can share the load and get more done in less time. The cores can do more work per second, allowing you to run multiple or multi-threaded applications with noticeably quicker results.
"Run multiple applications with noticeably quicker results."
OpenGL Graphics
The Dell Precision 490 offers a wide range of high-performance graphics cards for many of the most demanding visual applications like CAD, GIS, and digital content creation. These graphics options are designed to handle the demands of 2D and 3D applications for all types of engineering, architecture and design. All the 490's graphic options also support a dual-monitor configuration.
"OpenGL graphics for the most demanding visual applications."
