A lot has been written lately in regards to the supposed demise of the “Excessive-Finish Desktop” (HEDT) idea. The OG “HEDT” methods again within the day had been in all probability dual-socket Pentium Professional rigs utilized by hardcore fanatics who merely wished the quickest PCs attainable. In newer occasions, “HEDT” sometimes referred to methods primarily based on platforms that shared extra in frequent with server {hardware} than typical desktop machines, just like the Cascade Lake-X Core i9-10980XE.
Make no mistake; these are actual workstation methods. You get an enormous CPU with a 280W TDP, eight RDIMM slots supporting as much as 1TB of ECC DDR4 reminiscence operating at 3200 MT/s, and your selection of graphics playing cards starting from the baseline NVIDIA T400 all the best way as much as the 32GB AMD Radeon Professional W6800 or the 48GB NVIDIA RTX A6000.
Storage choices embrace virtually no matter you need. You may have Dell ship you the machine with a single 2.5″ 500GB laborious drive, if you would like, or you may outfit it with RAID controllers and PCIe SSDs for as much as 56 TB of native storage. A discrete TPM is included, too, so you do not have to fret about any bizarre AMD fTPM points.
Exterior connectivity on the Precision 7865 within reason sturdy. Round again, there is a single 3.5mm audio jack, a pair of RJ-45 connections for the 1-Gbps and 10-Gbps Ethernet connections, after which six USB ports. The triple Sort-Cs are 10 Gbps-rated, whereas the Sort-A ports are 5 Gbps connections. You additionally get an old-school DB9 serial port and optionally, a pair of PS/2 connections for mouse and keyboard.
The entrance panel I/O is just barely much less spectacular. One other pair of 10 Gbps USB Sort-C ports and one other pair of 5 Gbps USB Sort-A ports are current, however you additionally get an SD card reader, one other 3.5mm combo audio jack, after which no matter you set within the two locking drive bays. There’s additionally a tiny area for an non-obligatory 9mm optical drive that helps DVD±RW recording at as much as 8x pace.
Sadly, as we speak’s simply the product announcement; the Precision 7865 is not fairly prepared for prime-time but. Dell says will probably be prepared this summer time, although, and that it will be out there worldwide. Naturally, pricing must wait till the precise product premiere, so preserve a watch out should you want a monster workstation.
